Microsoft’s retail partners are equally excited about our sales performance this holiday.

“We have seen tremendous excitement from customers for our hot holiday gaming offers,” said Chris Homeister, senior vice president and general manager of Home Entertainment at Best Buy. “Xbox 360 was among the best-sellers at Best Buy this Black Friday, and is a testament to the continued popularity of the gaming category this holiday.”

Besides, Nintendo also previously pubilshed their sales results in black Friday, on last Friday more than 500000 nintendo’s Wii console were sold in one day.

When Microsoft finally does make the move to the next generation, it won’t be with just a new Xbox console. Xbox 360 Kinect has been a huge success for the company, and when the Xbox 720 is released to the public, expect a revised version of the motion control peripheral to launch along side it.

Now, the first rumored Kinect 2 details have emerged and paint a picture of a device significantly more powerful than the current hardware.

Xbox 360 Kinect games have gained a significant amount of sophistication over the past year, best exemplified by the peerless gestural mechanics of Kinect Sports: Season Two. Kinect voice recognition has seen improvement, too, and is set to be a major feature of the December 6th Xbox 360 dashboard update — players will be able to use Kinect-powered voice search for marketplace items, Netflix and Hulu content, and more. Despite the strides made with Kinect over the past year, Kinect 2 promises to take the technology to bold new places.

Chief among Kinect 2 claims is that the device is so powerful and accurate that it can read players’ lips. As current Kinect owners are well aware, if the games get too loud, Kinect doesn’t always respond to voice commands. With Kinect 2′s ability to read lips, that should no longer be a problem. But there is more than that: using a combination of facial and voice recognition, Kinect 2 can allegedly determine player emotions. Feeling frustrated by a particularly challenging boss encounter in, say, the Gears of War prequel? Kinect 2 will be able to tell — a feature that developers could take advantage of, for instance, to balance the encounter’s difficulty on the fly.The Kinect 2 rumors, as reported by Eurogamer, come from an unnamed “development source

” who singles out the current Kinect’s USB interface as a major bottleneck for the hardware — one that won’t be shared by Kinect 2.

“It can be cabled straight through on any number of technologies that just take phenomenally high res data straight to the main processor and straight to the main RAM and ask, what do you want to do with it?”

Kinect 2 is expected to be bundled with the Xbox 720. Meanwhile, Microsoft has announced an early 2012 launch window for Kinect for Windows, which will feature a PC-specific version of the Kinect hardware. Clearly, Microsoft considers Kinect a vital element of its plans going forward. The question is whether gamers who have so far held off on purchasing Kinect will be swayed by more powerful hardware.

Microsoft offers two standard versions of the Xbox 360, newly redesigned last year. The major difference between the two options is the amount of hard drive space inside the box. A more expensive 250 GB model exists, which sells for $299.99. Or you can save a few bucks and go with the 4 GB version, which costs $199.99. If you plan on downloading games or add-ons — and there are plenty that you’ll want to if you’re a big gamer — then we recommend going with the 250 GB version. The extra space is worth the money.

In addition to the standard consoles, Microsoft has several unique bundles for sale. This year, a Kinect bundle is available for $399. The bundle includes a Kinect, a 250GB Xbox 360, Kinect Adventures, Carnival Games: Monkey See Monkey Do, and three months of Xbox Live. A second bundle is also available for $299 without a Kinect. Along with a 250GB system, the bundle includes Fable III, a code to download a full copy of Halo Reach, plus a three month Xbox Live Gold trial.

Our Recommendation

If  XBOX 360 Kinect interests you and you don’t yet have an Xbox 360, go with a bundle to save a bit of money on the included games. If you’re not interested in Kinect or bundled games, go with the 250 GB model.

Optional Items

HDMI Cable:

If you have an HDMI port on your TV (and you should if you’ve purchased an HD-capable TV in the past three years), this cable allows for the easiest set-up and the best possible visual and audio fidelity.

Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor:

Microsoft jumped on the motion-controlled gaming revolution in 2010 with a special camera, called Kinect. It can sense your motion in three dimensions, recognize you, and even understand simple voice commands. It costs $150 when bought by itself, and you get a copy of Kinect Adventures in that box at no extra cost. This peripheral is aimed at new audiences, so many of the games being made for it are family friendly.

Razer is typically known as a PC gaming accessories company with all sorts of keyboard and mice for gamers to use to get their game on. Razer has other gear too and the company branched out at CES when it pulled the wraps of a new controller for Xbox 360 called the Onza.

Tension adjustment

The tension of the joystick can be adjusted, which is the most admired function for the most people . Imagine this: when you are using the Xbox joystick, wanted the cursor to move to the right place, but is always not. It always a little beyond or nor, this should be our gamers all have experienced. The “Razer Onza ” can be defined the tension function of the joystick, letting you can use your joystick more freewheeling.

Button

Razer has added to the most sensitive button function inside the “Razer Onza ” . When pressing  button , we can clearly heard the rattle at the same time. The problem of button lock in  “Razer Onza ” is on longer exist, a short time of pressing buttton can make you fell so wonderful and excellent !

D-pad

Razer has adjusted almost elements on the controller, the D-pad is no exception .  The general’s D-pad only has single axis set, but Razer devided the D-pad into four buttons : up and down; right and left. The change will produce both be good or bad effect, if you want to press diagonal direction, such as the upper left or right lower and so on, you will feel quite thorny. However, if make the direction button defined as the choice set in the game, this set of Razer can let gamers play the game more smoothly and easily.

The software giant originally opened up its Kinect accessory for use on the PC back in June. The original Kinect for Windows SDK beta was aimed at academic research and enthusiast communities to create new experiences using Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 accessory. Microsoft promised a commercial SDK at the time and outlined its plans on Monday to sell a commercial version of the Kinect for Windows SDK to businesses. The software maker is expected to deliver updated SDK bits in early 2012.

Microsoft has been working with over 200 companies during a pilot of the commercial Kinect SDK across 25 industries. Dennis Durkin, Xbox chief financial officer, revealed in an interview with the Financial Times that the key part of Kinect was reducing its cost for mass production. “Once you bring down that price point, all of a sudden it opens up a bunch of new developer opportunities,” said Durkin. Speaking of the potential for Kinect business apps, Durkin added that there will be a number of “killer apps” within their respective fields. Toyota has developed a virtual showroom for its cars and Spanish tech group Tedesys has created an application to allow surgeons to page through a patients records during operations.

Microsoft’s Kinect sensor has been a phenomenal success story for the company. The console accessory sold out across a number of retailers during last year’s festive season and Microsoft smashed its own estimates of 5 million units in 2010 by shipping 10 million devices. Microsoft’s Kinect accessory has also broken a Guinness World Record. Guinness World Records officially named Kinect for Xbox 360 the fastest-selling consumer electronics device, which sold an average of 133,333 units per day for a total of eight million units in its first 60 days between November 4, 2010 and January 3, 2011.

Microsoft launched its controller-less console accessory for the Xbox 360 across the world nearly a year ago. The Xbox 360 Kinect sensor is a horizontal bar that sits at the base of your TV. The device has an RGB camera, depth sensor and multi-array microphone which runs proprietary software. Kinect allows for full-body 3D motion capture, facial recognition, and voice recognition. Owners will be able to interact with games titles using just their body. Pausing TV and fast forwarding movies can be achieved using a mix of hand movements and voice control.

Although not confirmed, it’s likely tuned for fighting game players, who may want the choice of feedback on the D-pad to better pull off certain moves.

The new Xbox360 wireless controller will come only as part of a Play & Charge Kit for Xbox360 that includes a lithium-ion battery and a USB charging adapter. Microsoft ships it to stores on November 9 for $65.

Nintendo’s Wii, the only other gaming console that has thus far relied on full motion controllers for the interface, needs users to point their RF controllers at a sensor bar. Sony PS3 Dual Shock 3 controller will recognize tilting motions but is much simpler than the In2Games controller. The Freedom Controller comes with a base unit that connects to either gaming console via a USB port, and includes two sensor bars that can be attached to the sides of a TV or mounted on their included stands.

In2Games has not released dates or pricing information for the Freedom game Controller.

The Microsoft Xbox360 Kinect is the newest big release from the team at Xbox 360. It is the advent of Xbox360 controller free games and immersive game play like never before. You don’t need a controller, your body becomes your controller via an avatar. With this new dimension in video gaming, you are taken deeper and deeper into the gaming experience. The way you interact with a game will change the way you look at motion control forever.

It moves with self tracking, through its infrared; and red, blue, and green camera. It makes every game you play so much more enjoyable, and a real experience like no other. If friends come over while you’re playing this, they can jump right in, no restarting necessary. With its 48 point tracking and it’s amazing facial recognition software, it is further blurring the line between the gaming world and the real one.

1If you and some friends feel like staying in and watching a movie, you can just say “Netflix” out loud, and the Kinect will load your Netflix right on your Xbox, letting you choose what movie you want with a simple wave of your hand, or just saying the title of the movie you wish to see.

Xbox Kinect biggest serious contender is the already very well established Nintendo Wii. Where Xbox wins over the Wii is that the Wii requires will controllers to be used, the Kinect doesn’t. The Xbox Kinect sensor offers much more freedom of movement than the Wii as you are not restricted by the limitations of movement of a controller. You actually feel as though you are part the game, as opposed to just being beside it.

The Xbox Kinect is changing the home entertainment experience in new and innovative ways. It’s not just for the younger crowd, either. It even appeals to people of all ages by getting them off the couch and into the game. This is the kind of thing that people see, then just have to try for themselves.

The 660MB app includes 24 virtual environments within which up to eight avatars can interact. Users can film scenes and share it over XBOX 360 Kinect Share. The environments include the Talk Show Stage, the Performance Stage and the Sports Party Stage, among others.

At the same time, the Kinect Sparkler app arrived on July 28,2011. It makes finger painting an aerial light show, and uses users’ bodies as a stencil and their fingers used to paint. Drawing is available in 3D, with sparklers used to write words. Kinect Sparkler will cost 240 Microsoft Points, however.

It is said that the Xbox 360 game:Mass Effect 2 and other games all adopted this method to test. In order to making the test accurate, this creator has taken off wireless transmission device to eliminate the signal error to the Xbox 360 console. And the microphone hole is used into as a connection cable to the board. So isn’t a little different?