LAS VEGAS—After enduring an embarrassing power outage that delayed the start of the event for over 20 minutes, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage to kick off CES 2010. A major theme of Ballmer’s keynote, and also of Consumer Electronics Association head Gary Shapiro’s pre-keynote opening remarks, was that 2009 may have been a frightful year, but the worst is behind us; and as bad as last year was, the industry managed to beat some of the more pessimistic analyst expectations.
Ballmer then started to recap Microsoft’s 2009 successes, starting with the Xbox division. He announced that Project Natal will be released this holiday season, bringing motion control to the 360. At what price? Unknown. With what games? It’s a safe bet we’ll have these questions answered at E3.
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