RUMOR Kinect not required for Xbox One

[BloodyRain]

JoeFlex said:

BloodyRain said:
Didn't ms clarify there stance on the whole kinect/price of the console fairly recently. I think it was after they did a 180.

Yea, this surfaced after that. I placed two tweets about it somewhere in the discussion. One where a MS rep said the 'rumors' were false and another where a guy claimed to have spoken to a MS insider (or something to that effect) who claimed it is true. But I believe the rumor is true in the sense that you can turn it off, rending it "not a requirement". That's a far cry from MS shipping a SKU without the Kinect. That's how most people have been interpreting it. With that said, I highly doubt it will be dropped since it seems important to the other services they want to implement, like TV. I think this makes sense when you consider what they shared recently about the Kinect and price. Releasing a SKU without Kinect would be bad for their overall plan - just my opinion.

Ya, though I don't like that it still has to be plugged in to the one to make it work. It takes up needless space since I prob won't use it very much if I get the one. The xbone seems to be centered around the use of the kinect in general.