Courtesy of Joystiq.

A Harmonix spokesperson offered us the following, official statement on Microsoft's move: "As avid gamers, we're excited for fans to have more choices out there. As game makers, this platform change doesn't affect our strategy – it reinforces that we must continue to focus on building innovative, compelling and well-designed motion experiences to motivate consumers to buy our games.

"We believe that tightly-crafted motion games can be great, genre-defining interactive experiences, as we've proven with the Dance Central franchise on Kinect for Xbox 360, and we're eager to prove it again with Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved this fall on both Xbox One and Xbox 360."

from Gaf.

Can you spot the difference between corporate bullshit and how they really feel?  

How do their dance games work on X360 without Kinect? Or does it say requires Kinect?

Weren't they working on a exclusive Kinect-powered game for the 360/180?

On the outside they seem glad but on the inside they feel like anal shit

This news has probably spawned some interesting reactions inside developers working on Kinect games.

well it probably doesn't help that there kickstarter is probably going to fail to

Ice Cold. No hookers for you!

Ehh, I find it hard to feel sorry for them.

They happily made games for the 360 Kinect, which wasnt a mandatory piece of hardware...

You can taste the bitterness in that first tweet. He's fucked and he knows it :/