Ugh. I suppose I should say SOMETHING about the Kinect. That’s the only big news from 360-land, and the media was falling all over themselves for a while about it. Okay, here goes my turn:

iIf the only thing that you disliked about the Wii was the fact that you still had to hold on to something, you’re going to be in heaven. You’ll get the immensely improved graphics and game library of the XB360 — not to mention the fact that the Wii is explicitly for families and children, while the 360 is more for gamers…and merely trying to capture that lucrative market segment.

There’s a lag. It won’t work with most some games. It’s big and power-hungry. It costs nearly as much as a console itself, which is fine if you’ve got a home equity loan but not so much if you’re an often nearly-broke gamer like me.

And when it comes down to it, I’m going against my 360-fanboy tendencies to say: even if you already own a 360, you’re going to enjoy yourself a bit more by spending the money on a Wii rather than the Kinect.

At least at this point. Maybe in six months or a year they’ll deliver the ‘killer app’ that makes the Kinect a must-have. But for the time being, I can think of maybe one or two games that would be worth playing with the Kinect.

To put it into perspective, that’s more than I played with Nintendo’s NES light gun, or the original Xbox’s awesome Steel Battalion controller. But only about as many as I ended up playing with my DK Bongos, my DDR pad, or my Guitar Hero controller. And I hated each and every one of them. For hours and hours.