Xbox 360 4GB Kinect Holiday Value Bundle features two great games: Kinect Sports: Season Two and Kinect Adventures

During Easter break 2014, this went down to $199, XBOX AND THE KINECT ( from AMAZON)I will start by first pointing out that, I purchased this for Toddlers. My kids are 4 and 5 years old. So I am looking for games that are physical and fun. Not controller dependent. Hence, why I purchased the Kinect. And purchased it over the Playstation and over the WII, since, the kids are too small to manage even the wand. They will want to JUMP AND DANCE, and do things, with their entire bodies. So the Kinect has the best catalog, for their age group of games, clearly over 100 titles. And I am a 40 year old mom, who has not owned a game system since SEGA Genesis. So this is bringing me into the 21st century.The graphics, are good, not the greatest, compared to the Xbox one ( meaning games designed for XBOX ONE), but just fine for kiddie games. The XBox 360, has a smaller RAM capacity, and that may be an issue for heavy FPS games, or Community play. Also the XBOX one, require FULL install on all the games. Which not required on this system, and I purchased the 4GB system for that reason. I will pick up a @ 2 TB (Terrabyte) hard drive, for $80 bucks, instead. So it will have more space that both systems.Again, they system is really plug and play, and the games are dropping in price, so no need to join the GOLD membership. Works with HULU and Amazon Prime, so it's a nice little features.DOES NOT PLAY BLU-RAY. So that is something you might want to consider. But BLU-RAYS are dirt cheap, so I suggest by a stand alone of this as well.In short, for occasional game play, and very young children, this is a GREAT alternative, to trips to the movies, or as a funtainment for rainy days inside. Or even days, where the pool is too crowded ( we live in NYC), and you just wanna BBQ and chill with the kids with Mocktails.I purchased this, instead, as alternative to the amusement park, REPEAT trips. Since even with the SEASON PASSES, YOU STILL DROP $100 bucks on food, and NOT included games.I took this out of the Hershey Park/Dutch Wonderland, fund. So the kids will only get Rye Playland, and Local Playgrounds/Beaches this summer. Which they will probably love playing this even more, than Hershey and Dutch.I picked up 10 games , all under 15 bucks each ( new), To keep the lil guys busy and surprised for the summer.I did break down and buy the square trade, still not sure, if it's a good investment ( $20 bucks), because they never seem to be worth it. But the discount seemed, worth it.I have heard that these game systems, can get unstable and crash with heavy use ( as it is still nothing more than a computer).with proper care this, I am hoping to get 3 years of use out of it.

Our son finally reached the age where some of his favorite games were no longer as much fun on the iPad (e.g., Minecraft), and I was looking for additional ways to have fun interacting with him. He had a ton of fun with his cousin doing Hip Hop Dance Experience over Thanksgiving this year, so, 9 years after the initial release of the Xbox 360 gaming system, we finally took the plunge and purchased this system for him as a birthday gift from Amazon.As usual, delivery was on time and everything was in perfect shape. This is the "E" console, and has both composite and HDMI outputs (we used the latter). This is a 4GB unit, so you should not plan to load and store tons of games. Given our admittedly limited gaming habits, I don't see this being too much of an issue. The console does, however, have two USB slots, each of which can handle a 16GB flash drive (32GB total additional storage). Because you can swap out flash drives, you can keep different games, profiles, etc. on the drives.The 2nd-longest part of setting up the unit was pulling out my entertainment center and (re)connecting everything in a sensible way (I believe in cable management). The 3rd-longest part of the set-up was updating the console via Xbox Live (not a huge deal--there were bound to be some), and the longest part of the set-up was creating individual profiles for my son, my wife, and me. You can customize everything from skin color to facial features to clothing (down to the shoes your avatar wears), so we spent a lot of time getting our looks just right. All-in-all, setting everything up took about 2 hours, but it can (and maybe should) take much less time for the average person. Once done, we haven't looked back. The image quality for games will depend greatly on the game itself. Minecraft, for example, will always appear "blocky" but "Gears of War" was stunning. In order to "compare apples-to-apples" I put in a few DVD's, and the quality was extremely good (If you want to play Blu Ray movies, you'll need Xbox One). The bundles comes with a single wireless controller and two games (Kinect Sports: Season 2 and Forza Horizon), but we also purchased Star Wars Kinect Kinect Star Wars - Xbox 360 and Minecraft Minecraft - Xbox 360, as well as an additional wireless controller (on sale for $35 at Toys-R-Us) so that at least two people could play everything.As far as the Kinect unit goes, It occasionally took moving around a bit before a second person will be recognized by the Kinect unit, but only in the Star Wars game thus far. The Kinect has actually done a very good job keeping up with our movements once both people are recognized (there is a bit of lag time that was noticeable to my wife [former athlete, dancer, and model] but not to me). Only once did the Kinect just "shut down" on us, but this was after at least 3 hours of consecutive play. I've moved it and the Xbox console to where it can get better ventilation, and the issue hasn't repeated itself.All-in-all, this is a fantastic gaming system, even if it is a little long in the tooth and its replacement is already here. Although the storage is limited, I knew this going in, and preferred to spend the money on the Kinect unit rather than a larger hard drive. Besides the cheaper price of the console/Kinect system, another HUGE plus of waiting almost 10 years to buy one is that there are LOADS of used games that are EXTREMELY inexpensive now (I picked up the entire Gears of War series for $15 at a local GameStop). The Xbox was the star of his birthday party, I've lost 3 pounds in a week with the Kinect, the family is having loads of fun, and I couldn't be happier with this purchase.