Kinect, New Natal Name…
Microsoft showed off “Natal” at E3 with a new name “KINECT” — and I have to say, this is a terrible name — Natal was much better. Obviously, the Microsoft think tank thought they were clever to have “Connect” and “Kinetic” fuse together — sorry, but it just doesn’t sound right to me. I’m not a fan of “Move” on the Playstation 3 either, but at least it’s spelt correctly. 
I’m also still not too keen on “KINECT”, compared to physical devices like the Wiimote and Move — I guess I’m just old school and like to have something in my hand. Like I mentioned before, why would millions of people go buy a Wii Wheel to play Mario Kart Wii when they could have played it using the normal Wiimote? Obviously, the KINECT would be better for dance games since you wouldn’t be holding a device in real life while dancing, and the voice recognition is a neat touch — if it works for everyone Microsoft also showed off the smaller design Xbox 360 which looked good, especially having built in Wi-Fi — just a shame you can’t use normal 2.5″ in hard drives like the PS3, thus resorting to getting ripped off by having to buy Microsoft’s own HD. Once thing about the new “slim” 360 is that it will NEVER give the RRoD because it only has Green LEDs, No Red ones! 
Maybe it’s a good time to get a new PC since it’s getting on a bit. A nice Core 2 Quad or i5 would do nicely, especially if it means running Photoshop 4 without it slowing down 
