Poor reviews? Where? Lack of games? Not at all.

I'm 37, use my Kinect every single day for some pretty heavy working out on Kinect Sports, Dance Central 2, Your Shape 1 and 2012. My son is in the Air Force and we use the Kinect video chat to keep in touch across the country for free.

Then talk about Hybrid Control Gaming...

Mass Effect 3 - Single Player. SO much easier to control your team members and get them using their powers by telling them what to do, then trying to use the controller.

Skyrim - 250 different voice commands, totally changes the way the game plays.

Ghost Recon - Just amazing using Kinect with it.

Try out some demos of some of the more popular games with it, you'll fall in love.

And Useless? FAR from useless. I use it to control videos on Netflix, Xfinity, Hulu, and more. "Xbox Pause", go get a beer, "Xbox, Play".

The hand gesturing to search for stuff, move panes, heck, I can do half of my prep and game launching stuff without touching a controller.

Ghost Recon has Kinect support and is awesome... so don't say lack of games since its usage is getting better game by game....

Wow! I had to get one. Even in crappy condition, I've never seen used ones of these for less than $70.

In for one. Doesn't come with Kinect Adventures, but that's a buck at gamestop

I love my kinect sensor. Its kind of cool to just shout out commands and have it do what you say. My fiancee likes to use it for zumba and the various dancing games out there.

I agree, the first games that came out were lacking in the kinect usage, but all of the newer games are just now beginning to utilize the sensor.

I particularly enjoyed playing thorough Mass Effect 3 with the sensor. You could say commands to your squad to follow, and change weapons on the fly without having to bring up the selection menu. You could even steer the diologue using the voice controls, which kind of made the game a little more immersive.

This is a good buy, and if you're on the fence about getting one, I say do it. The games are only going to get better.

eh it's a shame they seem to get poor reviews... anyone with personal experience?

@qkall: Poor reviews come from;

Lack of games in general
Lack of anything good for anyone over 3 years of age
Lack of interest after the initial "coolness factor" fades in a week or less.

For a house without kids under 3 or maybe 4 years old, it's virtually worthless.

I don't own an xbox 360 but I've seen where people have hooked this thing up to a pc. I was wondering how difficult it is to add/do different functions on this thing while connected to a pc and if it's even worthy of being an alternative to a mouse and keyboard.

@codyhill06: software made isnt open source as far as i know. You would have to dev it own your own...

Shipping finally updated.

Never had an origin scan, but had a departure scan from Ontario, CA on the 30th, It showed up in Lexena, KS on the 3rd (4 days to go from California to Kansas? WTF). It still sits in Kansas. Meanwhile, another package I have coming via UPS. Ordered on the 31st, ready for pickup on the first, not picked up by UPS till the 2nd, wasn't scanned in at the regional sort facility till the 3rd, and is set to be delivered today (4th). Oh yeah, that package was supposed to be next day air.