Kinect: Is it good enough to get?

Kinect is the new release from Microsoft for the Xbox 360.  It is a new twist as it 'Takes the controller out of your hands' by allowing you to make a physical movement and it appear on screen.

"Kinect works using an RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and a custom processor running proprietary software.The camera looks for your body, locks onto it, measures the three-dimensional positioning of 48 key joints in your anatomy and ignores everything else. Simple.  So you can forget about the annoyances of poor lighting or furniture messing up the image calibration, which was perhaps the greatest disappointment with Sony's PlayStation Eye technology.  It also supports up to four players, so once you've bought it, you won't need to upgrade or buy multiple versions of the device."-Techradar.com

There’s no denying that Kinect is a fascinating piece of technology that has the potential to help continue the evolution of gaming into new and exciting frontiers.  The retirement of the standard controller is inevitable, so other ideas such as Kinect look promising but in my view Kinect simply isn’t ready for prime time right out of the box. Right now there aren't many games out that work with Kinect.  Playing some staple games of the Xbox 360 such as Halo or Call of Duty would be a more exciting turn of events that a buyer like me would be very interested in.  Perhaps in the near future, we’ll see some more games come out for it and some software improvements but only time will tell.