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MS Gamer's Day: "I've never heard of motion controller," says Kim

Speaking to CVG at Microsoft's Gamer's Day in San Francisco yesterday, Xbox boss Shane Kim put a hilarious boot into rumours of a motion-sensing controller for Xbox 360 by saying that he'd never heard of the device.

"I've never heard of a motion sensing controller," he said. "I don't know what you are talking about."

The rumour of a Wiimote rip off for 360 originally came from MTV, and 8bitjoystick reckoned it was codenamed "Newton". Just goes to show.

"I will say, look, we have a lot of research and development going on all over the place, in Live and in Hardware and we have a ton of success in the accessory business - and that's probably a story that doesn't get told enough," Kim added.

"We're going to continue to look at new ways we can introduce different things - the third parties are doing this as well with the music controllers. So there's opportunities for us there too. We're an R and D company at heart."

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