“You are the controller!” scream the ads. “It’ll change the way you interact with technology forever,” claim the techies. But is Microsoft’s Kinect really the future? Scratch that: four years after the Wii introduced motion-based gaming to the world (and not just the usual gaming world – this includes your nan), is it really going to make that much of a dent in an already saturated marketplace?

The cynics’ view is that anyone who’s remotely interested in playing games by waving their hands at their TV bought Nintendo’s console long ago. The ultra-cynical view is that they bought one, realised it wasn’t really for them and it’s been gathering dust as they spent their time working on a sofa groove and playing Call Of Duty. With a gamepad.

Microsoft disagrees, obviously, and already the stats tend to back up this confidence in Kinect. Last week the estimate they would sell 3 million units in the run up to Christmas &...

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