Microsoft Corp. today announced it has sold more than 2.5 million Kinect sensors to consumers worldwide since it launched less than four weeks ago.

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The first thing you have to know before you pop Kinectimals into your Xbox 360 and load up the Kinect sensor is that, if you’re reading this, you’re probably not the intended market for the game.

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If you could remove the controls from Kinect Joy Ride and make it a straight arcade racer it might have been a reasonably good purchase. But add the worst control scheme so far on Kinect and you get a throwaway launch title that would have gone better if they’d kept it on Xbox Live.

Kinect is bundled with Kinect Adventures, an, erm, Adventure game that showcases some of the good and not so good parts to the Kinect controller.