On November 19, 2006 gaming was forever changed.  Nintendo, who had struggled to develop a relevant gaming system and seen sales drop during the era of the Game Cube, revealed a new system to the market that helped reclaim the gaming company’s supremacy worldwide.  The Wii utilizes a wireless remote that can sense movements in all three dimensions and translate those into the Wii games.  To add power to prowess, a stroke of good fortune bolstered the gaming systems sales and is a staple of the gaming system even today.  The original game included with every system sold was called Wii Sports.  It included tennis, baseball, boxing, golf and bowling.  The friendly graphics and simple utilization of bringing a lifelike simulation of the sporting events made the game a blockbuster hit with consumers.  It appealed to every age of gamer in its simplicity of use and challenge of perfection.

Especially as it pertained to Wii bowling, gamers were in awe.  In the wake of the extremely real game play of the virtual bowling, a design for a Wii accessory: a bowling ball, was desperately needed.  The wait is over and the Wii bowling ball is available.  Though its weight does not imitate that of a real ball it has a similar size and is designed to host the Wii remote, also called the chuck.  To insert the chuck the ball slide open and the remote is placed inside leaving a small hole for the remote cord to stick out so it can be worn around the wrist.  It has been the Nintendo policy with the Wii to produce companion accessories for Wii to match up with the various sports games, from a tennis racket to sparring gloves and now the Wii bowling ball, the cutting edge products being produced have given wake to a gaming system that brings gamers directly into the action.

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Kinect

Topping the list of new features that will ship with the newest Xbox 360 is support for Microsoft’s new motion control gaming technology called Kinect. This is essentially an external camera that can track movement of one or more people within its field of view and relay the movements in real time to the Xbox. Games that are developed to interface with the new Kinect camera technology will be able to integrate and translate the detected movements into the game play. No additional accessories or controllers will be required to play any of the new Kinect games.

The latest version of the Xbox 360 comes Kinect-ready with a special port for the external camera to plug in to. The port will also power the peripheral camera. On older versions of the game system, a stand-alone version of the Kinect camera can be purchased which plugs into one of the Xbox system’s USB ports. Older Xbox systems will also require external power through a provided power cable.

Form Factor

The new Xbox sports a slimmed down size and shiny black exterior finish. The new system just looks leaner and meaner. It is also amazingly quiet compared to previous versions of the console. Microsoft evidently went back to the drawing board to shrink the entire package while adding new features like an integrated 250 GB hard drive and on-board wireless connectivity as well. These were both add-on features in previous Xbox systems. The new Xbox also has a smaller CPU, consumes less power, and has a better cooling system. Supposedly this has solved any overheating issues and the ominous red ring of death is no more. If the Xbox does overheat for any reason, the system now shuts itself down gracefully.

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