Gamers 'underwhelmed' by £130 Kinect

Microsoft sold plenty of Xbox 360s over the Christmas period, but according to official figures, the motion tracking Kinect hardware sold far fewer units. During the last quarter of 2011, the Xbox 360 sold far better than its...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 was the largest selling gaming console in the United States market in November. According to c|net, Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush, said in a note to clients that Microsoft had sold 1.44 million Xbox...

Microsoft is having a hard time selling its Xbox 360 gaming console in Japan even as it continues to dominate the North American market.According to an article on Adria Sang, data from a popular Japanese Xbox 360 magazine...

Software giant Microsoft has informed that the sales of its Xbox 360 gaming console are ‘accelerating’.Microsoft, ahead of the E3 gaming conference, revealed that the sale of Xbox 360 in the first four months of 2011...

Sony's PlayStation 3 console now has more active devices globally than Microsoft's Xbox 360 even though the Xbox continues to dominate the US gaming console market. According to new data released by market research firm Strategy...

Online retailer Game has cut the price of the Microsoft Xbox 360 250GB gaming console by £54 to only £150, a price that includes free delivery and 1500 Game rewards points. The reduction occurs a day before the...

Microsoft has warned that shortages of both its Xbox 360 console and Kinect could occur in January and February owing to the blockbuster holiday shopping season last year. In an email to Seattlepi.com, a Microsoft spokesperson...

The Silver Xbox 360 transforming controller will arrive in the UK on 4 March and will retail for £44.99. The controller's design allows users to transform the D-pad into a plus-shaped or a disc-shaped pad depending on the...

Sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 console are set to overtake those of market leader Nintendo's Wii  in the US, thanks in part to the launch of the Kinect motion-sensing device.According to The Financial Times, analysts at...

Sales of the Sony Playstation 3 is set to surpass those of the Microsoft Xbox 360 if a survey carried out by GameVision Europe and Kelkoo is to be believed. Around 1.8 million new gaming consoles are expected to be sold in the...

Microsoft is planning to offer free additional downloadable content to new Kinect owners in a bid to entice potential customers into purchasing its upcoming motion sensing gaming peripheral. According to Electronic Theatre, the...

Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has claimed that Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console has the potential to beat rival Microsoft's Xbox 360 in the UK gaming market. EA, the publisher behind blockbuster games like Need for...

Microsoft has announced that its Xbox 360 games console has five more years of life left in it.According to the European head of Microsoft's gaming division Chris Lewis, by introducing Kinect, Microsoft extended the life span of...

Microsoft has confirmed that they are targeting casual gamers first and foremost after they announced that they will be launching hard core Kinect Games in 2012, 18 months from now. Speaking to industry news outlet...

Microsoft’s new Kinect motion controller will cost £130 when it is released in the UK later this year, the company has announced - a mere £20 less than the cost of its new 4GB Xbox 360, due to launch on 20...