Our 5 year old enjoys playing video games on our Wii, but because of the complicated remote control a five year old playing the Wii means an adult playing the Wii and the five year old pretending to play along.
Enter the Xbox with Kinect. He still needs help getting the games set up. And his poor little hand won't hold still long enough to trigger the buttons most of the time (although he is working on it). But once he is in the games he can do that on his own without parental participation.
The adventure game with this set is fun and entertaining, We have not figured out the Disney game yet. There is a problem with getting him identified and it keeps reverting him to a guest avatar. Probably something to do with that five year old inability to stand still issue.
The games are a lot of fun for him and the whole family. We bought Kinect Sports seasons 1 & 2 and also downloaded Kinect Party. The former is a lot of fun with plenty of variety, the latter is silly fun for a 5 year old and entertaining for everyone to watch. Especially when our dog wanders through the middle of a scene.
The only drawback so far is the 4GB of internal memory. You will have to expand this if you plan on downloading anything at all. We downloaded a few free games and the updates to the games we had purchased and the 4gb was gone. The official add on Hard Drive can slide right in to this unit, but it costs more to buy from Microsoft than just going up to the 250gb bundle in the first place. There are ways around buying an official Microsoft Hard drive if you have an old laptop hard drive laying around but theoretically use of those drives can get you removed from Xbox Live, so buyer beware if you go that route.
I know they are talking about the 720 coming out next year, but for our purposed this does the trick. It is a system the whole family can enjoy. We will be trying different games with this both using the Kinect (your Shape, Zumba Rush) and classic arcade style games (The Lego movie games are a big draw for the 5 year old). So far so good and a worthy step up from the old Wii.
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If I didn't love amazon before, I love amazon now, delivery was superb, got it in 6 days all the way to Nigeria. It works fine. Only issue I had was forgot to buy a step down so the moment I plugged it in the adapter blew. This was cuz it came with 110-127v while here in Nigeria we use 110-240v. But no worries, I bought a replacement adapter and all is well with the world. So who ever is buying this from Nigeria, make sure to buy a step down/up as the case may be. I love this.
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