Thanks.

That is what I figured, but it still looks weird.

Probably would but to be honest I don't enjoy dancing much so I doubt I would ever play that game.

DDR is about as far as I will go.

i saw families of 4 playing kinect in the ads?

I agree. Mario Kart (any other 4 way split screen) really needs HD to play 4 players.

No I'm not. One  half of two way split screen on a 720p TV has more pixels than a SDTV full screen. Thus on 720p it like each player has it own screen or 2 standard TV into one. 
When you start dividing a SDTV 4 ways you can serious see the limitations no matter how big the screen you have.

My family actually wasted the money buying controllers just to play Mario kart 4 players. We played 4 players once or twice before we just played only 2 at a time. There is not just enough pixels to get a good view of the surround area like when you race two players. My wife knows nothing about pixels yet she noticed this.

By the way just to shoot down some of the more annoying critics on here:

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12218-Video-Game-Examiner~y2010m6d21-Kiect-not-limited-to-2players-Has-unlimited-possibilites

At E3, PrimeSense showed a demonstration to JoyStiq which showed two-players going through a demo, though the camera technology did recognize more. This demonstration was built solely by PrimeSense and in no way has any relation or link to the software and game coding Microsoft has developed for Kinect. PrimeSense is the provider of the hardware chip for Microsoft, but Microsoft handles the rest, so the demo put on by PrimeSense does not reflect what Kintect can do in terms of total players.

The camera technology can detect an unlimited number of people, so if it's programmed in such a way, it can process and render more than two-players at a time. At the current time, Microsoft hasn't revealed how many players Kinect will support, but last year they did mention it could and would allow for 4-player gaming. PrimeSense did state that they do not know how many players Microsoft currently has Kinect setup to handle. With Kinect and the PrimeSense demonstration two completely separate entities, but the camera itself can detect a limitless number of people. It's solely limited based on the software that is implemented to the camera' hardware chip.

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  quote for the article "...but the camera itself can detect a limitless number of people. It's solely limited based on the software that is implemented to the camera' hardware chip." I really do't care how many people the camera can see but how many realistically can it track well enough at  the same time for gaming.

4 way split screen  was especially bad in the past.

It's irrelevant this entire debate was flawed from the outset as any impartial individual would have known any potential limitation right now on player numbers would be the software for Kinect.  They can release a update in the future to allow 4 players when they release some 4 player games if they wished, the point is it's not limited to 4 players at all.  Thus we have 10 pages arguing with the wrong "facts" because people were being too quick making assumptions.