Disgusted with the loss of Innovation (Kinect)? (/rant)

[Zappykins]

darkshadow23 said:

Zappykins said:

gergroy said:
You know they arent getting rid of kinect eright? They just arent forcing people that dont want it to buy it... I dont see what the problem is...

Because it will lose development support because not everyone will have one. 

Without Kinect one might as well just stay with a PC.  Why even bother with consoles?

While it’s true that half of all Xbox 360’s have been sold with Kinect since it came out in 2010.  And 80%, according to Microsoft, of Xbox One users use their Kinect daily.  So it is established that even the original Kinect is very popular. I think it will be a small minority that don’t get Kinect.

But all of gaming will suffer because of those people.

It never had development support.

Consoles are cheaper and you know your games will run on the system. No need to upgrade parts. Friends play on consoles.

If 80% of people use Kinect daily then the small minority will hurt gaming because of the minority? That doesn't make sense. Catering to the minority means less money to be made than catering to the majority (80%).

You cater to your weakest link.  Now every game etc will HAVE to run without Kinect except obviously a full Kinect game. 

Many people didn't think they wanted Kinect till they had it and used it. Now they can get an X1 without Kinect and all of use with it will lose support because of the small minority that mostly didn't want an Xbox anyway, but complained.

It's like in elementary school when the whole class gets punished because of a few loud mouths.

What if Xbox had drop high speed internet connection requirement and went with a modem on the original Xbox?  Few households had a high speed connection in 2001, yet it help revolutionize online gaming.