Microsoft: Xbox 720 with built-in Kinect is a good idea

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Carl2291 said:

UltimateUnknown said:

I don't see why it has to be built-in. It could just be a separate unit that comes in the box, like the Wii's infra red sensor.

Wouldn't that essentially be the standard 360 Kinect bundle?

No.

PrimeSense (maker of "the tech") just fired 50 of their 190 employees. From an article (on a Israeli webpage) it is pretty clear that MS is currently devolping their own "Kinect" and PrimeSense is somewhat in doubt whether they will make it past 2013-14 if they can't get more customers but clinge to MS.

And for a powerful new console generation, the current hardware is just not good enough (so roughly 25mio Kinect users will be pissed once the new "thing to have" appears on the market - with hopefully appropriate software).