The issue with the Kinect as a game peripheral is that while it is a step up on a tech scale compared to the Wii, it is a step backwards in terms of practicality. The Kinect suffers from the same problem that plagued pre-Wii pure motion controls, the very problem the Wii solved: navigation of 3D space. The Wii remote and nunchuck solves this problem, allowing for sophisticated game design like Metroid Prime 3 that melds motion control and traditional gameplay seamlessly. The Kinect removed that advantage to take a step forward with the "you are the controller" slogan but in reality they just took a step backwards in terms of functionality. As q game peripheral, the Kinect is dead and was doomed from the start.

Is this right? You can only do voice commands through Kinect? If so...why? It can't be that difficult, especially for MS. Hell, I don't care about voice commands that much, but I plugged a super cheap USB mic into my PS4 a year ago to try it out, ended up working so good I kept it plugged in. 

I dunno about r & d but they spent like 1 billion on advertising in the first few months. With it dying a next gen death it just adds to ms's gaming related losses since 2001. 

It will have no future motion controlls are dead for good

People like the whole two wrongs make a write to justify support for their product.  Either way this wasn't made by ms to harm the consumer although the whole spying thing was a bit worrying.  The bottom line is they have stopped major software support.  I don't think ms believe this is a profitable venture anymore.  

Everyone is not some single guy without any friends or some super serious gamer. Kinect is fine for those that enjoy it, just because you don't enjoy it doesn't mean it's dead. What I have found funny is that most of the complaints about kinect come from people who don't have one, heck probably don't even own an XB1.

everyone but ms could see kinect died on the 360. all the boosts to performance in the world won't make controllerless gaming not suck to play outside a small number of games.

Does it count if I had one on X360? Had it for about a year, out of which I tried to play some games that all sucked more or less (of course, there was Dance Central and Your Shape that did not). Played for a few months, shelved it for the rest, and was happy as a little kid when I managed to get €50 for it.

And this was back when MS actually made games for it. The very fact that so far XOne has 2 retail games in 15 months (one if which is an abomination called The Fighter Within that announced the quality Ubisoft will produce in 2014), and 3 downloadable titles nobody cared about, certainly means that Kinect is dead. And will not be resurrected any time soon.

OK so you speak for everyone got it.  I don't think anyone buys the kinect for hardcore gaming.  It's just a fun peripheral.  I can't wait to hear the opinions about morpheus. Whatever MSFT does people will complain,  1st too much focus on kinect and now not enough. 

By the way D4 is great with kinect, I enjoyed fantasia, and I recently bought KSR. These games with the voice commands have made it worth it, for me.