The Independent: Kinect clinches gaming hardware award at CES 2011

Microsoft's hands-free Kinect for Xbox 360 has taken a CES 2011 Innovation Award in the Electronic Gaming Hardware category, beating off competition from the PlayStation Move controller, OnLive MicroConsole, Sefteo's Cubits, and a plethora of top peripherals.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

''Innovation Award in the Electronic Gaming Hardware category,''

*Scratch head*
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Hmm.....Ok.

[M4ndat0ry_1nstall]

Well if they simply had to give the award out, it wouldn't exactly make sense to give it to something like...I don't know...PS Move? as it's about as original as a PS3 troll in 360 tagged article. Kinect basically won it because it's the "it" thing right now nothing more.

PS: I don't think Kinect deserved the award though, maybe OnLive?

[darthv72]

The kinect wasnt revealed at ces 2011 so why should it receive an award at ces 2011? I would think that type of award be given to something revealed at the show.

[Mustang300C2012]

Neither was Move or Onlive revealed at CES 11 so doesn't seem it matters.

[Tinasumsum]

Your response isn't a surprise given your history here.

[FailOverHero]

*loud echo is heard between alfa's ears as he scratches head*
OT: congrats to microsoft and the company they bought the tech from. Nobody believed in you guys and your hardware AND software sales and this award are like a large middle finger and grin to all the naysayers and haters. Well done
People say GT5 sales prove that reviewers don't know anything and gamers vote with their wallets. It's a pity they do not extend this very logic to kinect. . .

[Maddens Raiders]

CES 2011 Innovation Award..."

sorry I chuckled a bit there and didn't bother to continue reading. Was this prestigious award jointly shared w/ the PS2?

[3XP]

Haha, Madden has been relegated to a parttime N4G troll. He only shows up to add to the already overwhelming troll population and never seems to add anything constructive to the conversation.

No surprise there though.

[samuraiX]

Innovation Award?

LOLOLOLOL

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Bigpappy]

Well its just an award. Some body had to get it. I am more impressed by or 7 million people buy Kinect for a minimum of $150 in just 2 months. 3mil would have been a big success, but 7+ mil is just crazy.

Peoples opinion over organized opinion any day.

[thebudgetgamer]

but they do know how to get their stuff out there. that's impressive.

[Tinasumsum]

The award and the sales is a reflection of this new advanced hardware+software.

[MintBerryCrunch]

what do sales have to do with advanced hardware?

thats like saying big sales make a game great, which is not the case

[xtremegamerage]

Advanced, rofl.

Pull the other one Tinasumsum.

I've played them all.

KINECT,MOVE,WII

Move is the best motion tech this gen.

[Stealth20k]

so no games and hype and a ripped off camera can get you the award?

Sign me up for my toilet with camera!!!!

[OllieBoy]

Sounds like a legitimate award.... /s

[etownone]

Good to see Kinect winning more awards.

Now give me one great game for it.
Don't get me wrong, it was definitely good times at my house using Kinect with family and friends but I'm still waiting on one great game for it. Hopefully all the focus MS is putting into Kinect for 2011 pays off and I'll get more then one.

[thebudgetgamer]

i want to see more about steel battalion, if they can make that work i'm all in.

[Stryfeno2]

Kinect me Now!!!

[clintos59]

Congratz to MS for these awards & great sales for kinect, now all there is left to do is show us the innovative games. Awards are meaningless to a core gamer if there isnt nothing to showcase for the core gamer. Kinect has proven casual gamers love it now convince core gamers such as myself with core games that kinect can also please us aswell. If not then the future for core gamers on the 360 wont look so good unless we all love multiplatform games. Im not trolling either, im being an honest core gamer.

[Karum]

I'm not sure I can agree with that tbh, not that I would have given it to Move either...sure Kinect may be great fun for people just like Move but neither I think are truly innovative. Move is an evolution of the Wii-Mote and does what it does much better, Kinect is an evolution of the Eye Toy which just does what the Eye Toy did and is simply more capable as tech has advanced.

Are either of these motion devices innovative? I don't think they are one bit, and this is coming from someone who very much enjoys Move and cannot wait for KZ3 and Socom 4 to come out.

I'd pick something like OnLive as it at least is attempting to do something pretty new, something that Kinect and Move don't really do...they just do something that was done before but much much better.

[Mustang300C2012]

Onlive isn't doing anything new.

[Adrela]

Why are people saying OnLive? It's doing NOTHING new. Stop giving it credit.

[JRobes]

god listen to all the butt hurt sony fanboys...
Kinect got an award and Move didn't and the fanboys come screaming haha. Congrats to microsoft and their product that i will not be buying until they get some hot games to go with it.

[blackburn5]

So Move got nominated too? That's good. I am glad they got recognition too. They deserve it.

[Abu]

Congrats to Microsoft! A lot of companies would love to have won the award - but they didn't.

Kinect is innovative in so many ways, in the same way that the haters are innovative with all the different ways that they hate.

[strickers]

I think is it innovative hardware but I still maintain it belongs on PC.Limited for games.It will become apparent,just as that Avatar stuff being shite will.

[tudors]

Keeps you fit, I reccomend the table tennis mini games, brilliant.