Kinect didn't ruin the Xbox 360, the Move was more disasterous for the PS3 and it still did fine.

The Kinect only started seeing all this hate after Microsoft forced people who just wanted an Xbox One to buy it as well.

The entire reputation of the thing has gone down the gutter and it'll be hard for Microsoft to save it now. If they had made it optional, and showed some really awesome uses for it, then maybe it would have slowly becomem ore popular, and much more accepted than it is now.

The Kinect never had too much potential if you ask me! The lack of porn games was proof of that!

How are failures influential ? If anythng their only influential on how to not make SHITE products. The ones who judge success by anything other than sales or profits are the shallow ones around here like yourself. Businessmens have more profound view on many things than the artists. 

Whatever, D4 is currently the only game that has the potential to be a killer app for the Kinect all other games that could be killer apps either are in a even earlier stage of development then D4 or haven't even started being developed yet.

No it really doesn't ... I don't think that you think that you understand what the idea of a "killer app" means. 

Your the one that doesn't understand what a killer app is and I'm sure you haven't even seen any footage of D4 so you should give it a rest.

Don't make such baseless assumptions like I didn't watch the gameplay or you'll risk making yourself a fool again. 

From what I've seen that game screams extremely low quality like the rest of the games developed by Access Games. 

Unfortunately for you that's not how merriam-webster sees it ... 

killer app

 a computer application of such great value or popularity that it assures the success of the technology with which it is associated; broadly :  a feature or component that in itself makes something worth having or using

IMO MS killed Kinect with the lack of games that sold it to gamers and a lack of substantial improvement over the old kinect which would have sold it to developers. Even Sony had a decent bundled demo (Playroom) to show off the new controller and PS Camera, but MS had nothing other than OS navigation and voice commands, none of which needed something as powerful as Kinect (a simple camera with mic would have sufficed, as it has for the PS4).

The eyetoy was innovation. Microsoft just bought a more powerful version of the same thing. Microsoft knew the Kinect wore out its welcome during the first iteration and couldnt handle letting people decide whether they want it or not like Sony. They want to force it down your throat. Thats how MS does business until people teach them how to treat their consumers.

OP has a fair point. At the end of the day casuals may still get Kinect, and it can still be a bigger hit IF they can release some worthwhile games.

Motion control fads just aren't exciting the way they were 5 years ago. Nintendo actually saw it and basically stopped making much use of the Wiimote.

XB1 has pushed media functionality, but that is no longer a selling factor IMO. It's a feature that's nice to have, but not a device seller. There is SO much competition now for devices that play media and have voice recognition.

People now have multiple devices that do this under their TV. I can play media services on my TV itself (which also has voice and motion input by the way), on my cable box, on my BD player, Chromecast, etc. as well as my consoles.

When we compare to consoles, people are buying insane numbers of smartphones (almost 100 million smartphones per month), which can do speech recognition beyond what XB1 does, and you can control your TV and stream media to a $30 Chromecast from Android & iOS devices... (and you can multitask apps & web browsers too without XB1 snap ).

Sadly I think XB1's primary features are in a crowded market, and a bit dated really.