Watch Oprah give Kinect to her entire audience ... and the hysteria that ensues

You're getting a Kinect! And you're getting a Kinect! And you, and you and you're getting a Kinect! Oprah did today what only Bejeweled and FarmVille have been able to do so far: Get a bunch of middle-aged women ecstatically excited about video games. The television guru indeed gave an Xbox 360 system and a Kinect sensor away to every member of her studio audience this afternoon, and while you might expect a group of gamers to be a little thrilled about that, this crowd went freakin' nuts.

The show was about "The Next Big Thing," and featured an appearance by reality show crooner Susan Boyle, as well as a segment on The Daily Show's upcoming "Rally to Restore Sanity" anti-movement. But whatever the reason Oprah decided to go all Microsoft motion controller on her audience, it appears to have worked -- they loved it. Maybe this means they don't have to buy Christmas presents for the kids this year? Watch the whole surreal video after the break.

(Sorry for the shaky cam, better video when we find it.)

Reader Comments (130)

We need something to save us from oprah?!!!!!!

@Barkley610 We already have Firefox...

@Barkley610
Damn straight. She could have said everyone in the studio audience was a DYI evisceration kit fir budding serial killers and they still would have been stoked.

@Demaar

Said everyone was getting*
I need to proof read more.

@Lucky48

And crying. Wait, did one of them cried in there?

@Masker13

...I see what you did there...

@Masker13 bedum

@zwollner Thanks, too bad you're one of the few.

@Barkley610

You're getting an orgasm! and YOU get an orgasm! and YOU! and YOU!

@Barkley610 Nothing can save you from Oprah, NOTHING I SAY!!

Groan.

@Morph156

There'll be spike of housewives XBL voice chatting. The conversations?...

awesome.

@Ballistic H

Nah, they'll use Kinect video chat

@Prboi

You're all wrong they'll be woo busy watching reruns of oprah

@Prboi

You're all wrong they'll be too busy watching reruns of oprah

@Masker13
You're all wrong they'll be too busy double posting on Joystiq
;o)

@Ballistic H

And the influx of gamertags like 'MutherzRuwl' and 'Hoozyomamma'...

Cant be bothered to watch the vid but maybe they were actresses or something? Some sort of publicity stunt by Microsoft? lol

It's free stuff.
And it's Oprah.

@den69

Oprah has been giving stuff away for free for years now.

@den69

its like this but with a Microsoft product:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1816288

den69 is right: Microsoft is spending a billion

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/18/microsoft-to-spend-a-billion-marketing-windows-phone-7-and-kinec/

and this is where some are going. Let's guess where the rest goes to.

@den69

Oprah seets are booked like seasons in advance.. so def not actors

@BrianH

seats*

This is the reason why Kinect will not fail, despite the fact that anyone who's a moderate to hard core gamer disagrees: It's not even targeted towards us.

@den69

Yea, no matter what she's giving away the crowd always loses their freaking minds.

Not that they had much to begin with.

@WiredKnight
The Oprah Show can pretty much be 5 seconds of her saying the word "Free" and then the rest of the time slot filled with applause, screaming, crying, nervous breakdowns, heart attacks, and I'm sure in some cases, violent diarrhea.

@Nolan North YOUR ALL GETTING PENS YES PENS I'M SO POOR FROM GIVING AWAY ALL THIS CRAP THAT I HAD TO STEAL STUFF FROM WALMART (HID IT IN HER VAGINA) SO YEAH YOU BOOOKED THESE SEATS FOR A PEN THAT'S BEEN IN MY VAGINA..

Something like that will happen when she's low on money..

@Ballistic H I bet a large chunk went to Oprah, couldn't be too cheap to get her to advertise for you now a days. :S

@ShadowMonkey987

Low on money? Oprah?

I don't think so, Tim.

@BrianH
actually you just go to downtown chicago and stand in a long ass line.

Wish I was in that crown. I'd rather get Kinect free than pay 150 bucks for it

@Prboi

I'd rather pay $150 than sit in an Oprah audience

@Zepinephrine

Really? Lol I guess you got money to throw around then

@Prboi do tell!

@Zepinephrine

Actually more than that! She said she was giving an Xbox 360 & Kinect. So it's probably the $400 bundle...

@Prboi

no.... not really.

@Prboi

Make it rain!!!

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff im seriously peeved and jealous.

Oprah could've relieved herself in a plastic bag and handed it out to the audience, and they'd have been just as excited.

That was nice of her, though.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

I don't think it was so much her being nice as it was a marketing decision.

@superfrog1993

MS paid her to give them away. Which is probably the smartest move MS has made all year next to releasing the slim 360 the week of E3

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

LMFAO,I'm still buying Kinect but that shit about Oprah was fukkking Hilarious!!!!

The audience gets Kinect before any game sites get to review it...

@Zacxx201 And I'm sure Oprah's audience checks game sites for reviews regularly.

Most people who buy Wii, DS, and Kinect do not care about reviews

@Zacxx201 Seeing as you need a dashboard update to use Kinect, and said dashboard update is still in testing, I doubt that they are going to get it much earlier than the actual release date.

@Zacxx201

they probably just got a coupon redeemable for a free kinect and the boxes are props.

@Zacxx201 I don't think those crazed housewives are getting Kinect before release.. probably a few days before or after launch is my guess.

Oprah plugs XBOX360!!! I predict a record holiday season for MS and kinect as you know how many house wives just wrote kinect and 360 down as thee gift to get!!!

Smart move MS very Smart!

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