There is an onboard CPU on the kinect, but it doesn't do all the work. It still needs the 360s CPU to finish the processing and such. As a result, Kinect games

There is an onboard CPU on the kinect, but it doesn't do all the work. It still needs the 360s CPU to finish the processing and such. As a result, Kinect games will suffer a bit visually compared to normal 360 games. It's outlined in the ars technica review (and I'm sure in other places) http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2010/11/buy-a-house-clean-your-floor-move-your-butt-ars-reviews-kinect.ars http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2010/11/buy-a-house-cl...