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I’ve had a chance to play with the Kinect for a little over a week now.  Overall I’m actually fairly impressed.  While not quite as accurate as PlayStation’s Move, movement is overall tracked quite well for most of the titles I tried.  Even though the cost of entry is higher than the Move, when you figure in the cost of all the controllers necessary for two players it is actually quite competitive.  While there were some bad initial titles released, overall I feel the initial lineup for the Kinect is substantially better.  Some people have complained that many Kinect games are physically strenuous and can’t be played for long periods of times.  I would argue that those people are (with a couple of exceptions) missing the point.  Kinect is not about providing an better interface for playing hours of Halo.  For those type of FPS games, a controller (or better yet a mouse and keyboard) will always be a better choice.  Kinect is about providing a pickup and play experience, removing the intimidation factor that comes from dealing with traditional multiple XBox gamepad.  In this it is clearly successful, perhaps even more so than even the Wii.  What remains to be seen is how well third party developers (many of which have struggled with the Wii), will be able to utilize it.