If you missed it, Oprah Winfrey featured Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 Kinect device on her show earlier this month, before giving her entire audience a Kinect each and reducing them to giggling, screaming prats. It was cringe . Don’t believe me? Here’s the groan-worthy video:
Anyway, surprise surprise: since Kinect got its mention, sales of the hardware have gone potty, with Amazon reporting a 42% leap in pre-orders. Proof again that (a) Easily swayed idiots will always walk amongst us and (b) Everything Oprah even blinks in the direction of automatically turns to golden unicorn poo.
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