A no-brainer, really. Kinect has sold by the bucket load, appeals to casual and hardcore gamers alike, and boasts an array of tech – how do an infrared laser sensor, depth sensor and multi-array mics with voice recognition abilities grab you? – to make any gadget-fancier drool like a fat man during an especially delicious cake dream. Kinect took the Wii’s basic motion-gaming concept and pumped it up to monstrous proportions, but gaming is not the limit of its talents. This is not the last you shall hear of Kinect in these Awards…

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It’s a seismic shift in gaming, to the point where we wouldn’t be surprised if future generations point at the control pad and ask, “What’s that?”

With how much hype there’s been over the 18 months, it’s hard to believe Kinect was only released in November 2010 – since then it’s sold over 10 million units – 2 million more than the PlayStation Move. With the Kinect for Windows software developer kit touching down any day now, allowing anyone with a bit of know-how to make their own Kinect apps, it seems we’ve only skimmed the surface of what this true game-changer is capable of.

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