An Xbox 360 Peripheral Rundown

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has been talked about its future plans at GameFest in Seattle, and revealed that its Xbox 360 Live Vision camera will ship next month with a free game, TotemBall, which uses gestural technology to control an on-screen avatar, much like Sony's EyeToy games. In addition, the camera will also be used for facemapping technology in Activision's World Series Of Poker game." Gamespot is reporting on other, equally interesting peripherals for the Xbox 360, many of which have come up in recent rumormongering. They discuss the price point for the HD-DVD drive (probably about $200), support for 1080p (likely), a new media jukebox for the console (quite possible), and the likelihood that Microsoft will release a new controller designed specifically for FPSes (would make sense).

Comments

Too expensive

[Kohath]

I can't believe $ony! They want to take even MORE of our money!! Why weren't all these included with the console? $ony is always trying to get more ... ...

Oh wait, it's the Xbox.

Yeay! Thanks Microsoft. Wow! I can't believe they're only charging this much. Halo rox.

2000 dollar HDTV LCD check

[WillAffleckUW]

um, maybe I should just get that Wii and have a bunch of fun, instead? I mean, after shelling out $1999 for a decent 1080i or 1080p LCD HDTV, adding on say $2000 for speakers they recommend, I mean, I could have bought a cluster of Linux laptops running off a cluster of Linux servers for that lot ...

Or spent less than $300 total for a Wii and a nice bundle of games and enjoyed myself a lot more.