If you'd have asked me last year, I would've never guessed that Zumba Fitness: World Party would kill two career mini-milestones at once for me: the first time I got to physically pick up and hold a real Xbox One, and the first time I got to see a Kinect 2.0 motion-controlled game in action.*
And yet there I was in the IGN demo room last week with publisher Majesco, staring at the "liquid black" new console on the ground and the next-gen Kinect sensor sitting in front of the TV. Though I played Xbox One games at E3, I never got to actually touch the console or the Kinect, as they were each always locked behind glass or otherwise inaccessible. So now, finally given the chance, I picked each of them up and was surprised by how solid and well-built the Xbox One feels compared to the first-generation Xbox 360. And believe the hype: the new Xbox is almost inaudibly quiet when running. Meanwhile, the new Kinect has plenty of heft; it feels like a serious piece of machinery, but it too feels iron-tough (unlike its flimsy predecessor), so that if it happened to take a tumble off your TV, odds are it would brush off the fall and get right back to work.
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