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While Kinect's marketing tagline may sound like Microsoft wants to make controllers redundant, any gamer should have realised by now the enormous potential to hook up Kinect with a controller. The developers behind the technology have realised that too.

Talking to GamesIndustry.biz, lead Kinect developer Alex Kipman says that, "What we haven't really talked about, but exist, are hybrid games. Games that are using the controller, which we know and love, and pieces, if not all, of the Kinect experiences to again make those experiences more immersive, more fun and more emotionally connected."

The most obvious combination would be using Kinect's voice control functionality in conjunction with regular controller schemes. Tom Clancy's EndWar might've flopped somewhat, but the voice control featured in the game was extremely impressive.

Beyond that, of course, there's also the potential to develop additional controller types - light guns, for example - that could be used with Kinect's camera.

For now it's all about the controller-free games though, so it may be a while before we hear about hybrid controlled games, but let's be honest, if they're going to market Kinect to core gamers, Microsoft is going to have to work on more "hybrid" games.