A quick take on MS's E3 and the Kinect as a peripheral

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Xenostar said:

Sevengen said:

Xenostar said:
Its a peripheral

All parts of xbox one are accessible and currently all games work perfectly fine without it, There is 1 game coming up soon kinect sports that needs it, but its still just a game that if your not interested in you still wont need a kinect.

Your innovation always wins statement is rediculous, many many things are invented and discarded if they dont server a necessary purpose or improve on the way something previously worked.

Voice commands will one day no doubt be something we all live with, but they will work on natural language not predefined phrases and will work 100% of the time. This tech does not need an expensive camera tho just a mic.

3D body tracking is what kinects real stand out function is and its launched with NO games.

Xenostar... back in the day, before the Sega Saturn made launching a console with only one controller an industry standard.. most systems came with two controllers and a pack in game. Was that second controller a peripheral?, even though it may not have been needed to play the system?

Heres the google definition of a peripheral in relation to computers

"(of a device) able to be attached to and used with a computer, though not an integral part of it."

If i unplug Kinect does the Xbox One still work with games being playable, if the answers is "YES" its a periperal.

The keywork in the definition is "Integral" meaning cant work without it.

You can't play any console game without some type of controller input... so by your own acceptance of the definition above, the Kinect is NOT a peripheral as you can't play certain games without it.
Now, you don't have to buy any games that require it and end up leaving it sitting on a shelf somewhere, but that's no different than a second controller you never use.
Neither one can be considered peripherals as they're both integral to operating the console at some point.
I have an Xbox 360 remote which I sometimes use to operate the system, without ever touching the controller that came with the Xbox when I purchased it. Does that make my original controller a peripheral?
Of course not.

See, you're one of the type I mentioned in the OP. A gamer that can't wrap his head around the fact that the Kinect is not a peripheral. You simply choose to see it that way because is suits your argument.
It's not a peripheral. I'll say it again:
it's an alternative controller for the system, included in every box.
The system was designed to use standard controller input AND motion input, so it's obviously an integral part of the system, whether you choose to see it that way or not.