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by madoublet 4687 days ago
I guess if you consider 2010 "a while". That is when Microsoft released the Kinect.
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Retric 4687 days ago
Microsoft bought the Kinect teck from PrimeSense to prop up there XBox division which has yet to outpreform a simple stock buyback and is this a failure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeSense
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freehunter 4687 days ago
And the Xbox itself before that.
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mrdodge 4687 days ago
Xbox is brought up a lot in these threads although it has been a total business failure. Even after losing billions over many quarters, making a quarterly profit only recently, it's still in a virtual 3-way tie for the tiny gaming console market.
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mbreese 4687 days ago
And it took how long to get this far? Console gaming is a tough industry to be in.
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