That does come off as an attention grabbing sound bite, but it's hard to disagree, at least with respect to Kinect on the XB360. I don't see that ever changing given the waning status of the platform either.

As for the XB1, the updated hardware has higher potential for achieving what Project Natal promised years ago. In all fairness, the platform is barely over 4 months old and while a launch title that justified the required purchase would probably have gone a long way in legitimizing the concept of Kinect, until we see that title, the primary function of Kinect is not in the motion sensing camera, but in the microphone array used for the voice recognition software which is something that would work with any microphone including the one on a headset.

The Kinect free SKU all depends upon MS' willingness to continue to change their original vision for the platform. As soon as you have any percentage of an installed user base without a camera/mic, MS either has to make their use optional, or require an extra $150 purchase (for the separate Kinect 2.0 purchase) for certain functions. The other options are continue to sell their lower consumer demand package for more than the PS4, or match price, take a loss and essentially give away Kinect to XB1 buyers.

Surveys must have shown that target users wouldn't buy Milo (if it wasn't axed or it didn't turn into vapour, that is) unless they could actually touch that creepy virtual boy, so Molyneux was made a saaaad panda!

if Microsoft drop kinect its the final 180

what we would have witnessed is the complete dismantling of an original focus from its console reveal to become more like its competitor

Maybe Playstation 4 lucked out this Gen. People shitting on the Kinect and Gamepad and Sony's just like

"lol k"

Except with the Vita where the rear touchpad is hated by everyone.

HAHAHA!!

This.

Hardly a controversial opinion, but coming from a man who once lived and breathed the brand I suppose has ruffled some feathers. I hope there are more like him at Xbox, so they can see sense and put out a box at an actually competitive pricepoint (lower than the PS4).

Fables a joke just like he is. Hes right that the Kinect is not an Xbox One seller but it should've never been bundled out of principle. Theres not enough use for it even after six months out on the market to make it a viable manditory product. Its amazing that he could talk about the possibilities of the Kinect and yet the Kinect was one of his worst blunders with Fable in the first place. He looks like a dick no matter what he does. Its sad.

What did you expect him to say about Kinect while he was an employee of Microsoft? He wasn't going to trash talk it. 

Yeah and he chose to take on the Kinect. The guy could've figured out its limitations before the "tech demos" were complete.

Lol this^. 

Though having said that, he does seem to have changed his viewpoint on the Kinect a lot since he left MS. Of course so have xbox fans about Molyneux. 

Going on what he said though I doubt MS will drop Kinect. They have come too far and I think it is more likely they will just do a price drop.