Xbox 360 tops U.S. console market for 18th consecutive month, but sales continue to fall

Latest missive from the games console wars: Sony has announced cumulative sales of its PlayStation 3 reached 70 million units on November 4, a few days short of the machine’s sixth birthday.

Microsoft has released pricing for the Xbox 360 Kinect motion and voice sensing controller.  Arriving before Christmas and packaged with a game, Microsoft is going aggressive with its controllerless push.  News also of a new 4GB Xbox 360 Arcade model hitting the market.

Summary: Microsoft is outspending the competition in an effort to overhype KINect, but the competition is technically superior and Microsoft’s product is still defective, even shortly before its launch IN reality, Xbox 360 has many technical problems (even management exodus) and today we deal with some of the very latest. No artificial hype is allowed.

PS3 comes in last for the month in sales...

Microsoft changes its stance on “hacking” the Xbox 360’s new Kinect motion controller, saying that taking and interpreting the output from a USB connection is not hacking, whereas breaking into the Kinect’s algorithms or making physical hardware changes is.

Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division fell by 16 percent to $1.62 billion, with the company placing much of the blame on a “soft gaming console market.”

Is Microsoft Kinect motion controller for the Xbox is ‘going the way of the dodo’ because motion control is a ‘passing phase’?

A new imagining of the original Halo plus Halo 4, Gears of War 3, Mass Effect 3 and Minecraft all slated for Xbox 360. No new hardware announcement, but plenty of choice for the millions of Kinect motion detection controller owners in the future with Microsoft confirming at E3 today details of Star Wars, Dance Central, Fable and many more Kinect enabled titles on the horizon.

Microsoft introduces the followup to the Xbox 360 Arcade