Including Kinect With Every Xbox One Is A Smart Move By Microsoft

[Zappykins]

Xenostar said:

selnor1983 said:

 

Yep. Theres consoles out there with no camera included.

Its last gen or 1 from this gen

360, PS3 and PS4.

Vita comes bundled, DS etc etc.

Its the modern era, not the 1990's.

Guarantee there will be a kinectless SKU within 2 years, id take a bet on that, they released consoles without hard drives last gen and that was much more crippling to the systems. 

Of those games listed they use it in gimicky ways, ones not even confirmed, another had added controller support after originally being kinect only. 

As i said in another thread, to 3rd parties less than 50% of there audience will have kinect, theyll soon see there is more merit in adding impoving features for all there users not just gimmick features for a minority of there players. 

And that 50% is being very generous. 

I also dont expect 3rd parties to adopt PS4 touch pad or camera or the wii U Pad in meaningfull ways either on multiplatform games in the long term.

I do expect some early launch titles to use these features while the tech guys and designers are initially having fun playing with them, that will soon wear off. 

It's not really the same.  The Xbox 360 was designed to work without a hard drive - they were still relatively pricey back then.  And ALL games (until the last year when it was loosened with Halo4 and GTAV) were required to be able to run on the DVD alone.

Every command is designed to work with voice on the Xbox One.  And this is a good improvement.  As I can do 99% of browsing and app with my voice, but the rare thing that pops up where I need a controller is annoying.  As I am often doing things, working, moving around and don’t have my hands free.

With all due respect, since you seem to dismiss Kinect so much, I have to ask, then why are you always in the threads? Why not just laugh with you see one and think "ha ha, those XBoners are going to be so miserable. tee hee"

 

I know you think it will flop.  So let it flop if that is what is going to happen.  You can not make it flop by posting, 'It's useless and will flop.' The postings makes it looks like the fear is if it does succeed, it will succeed big.

 

 

Also, if you would like to come over and play with my Xbox 360 and Kinect I would be happy to show you some fun things.  I think there is much you don’t even realize it can do. 

Oh, and here is some Ice Cream for you; I hope you like green tea: