Once again we lose out because Microsoft sucks at communication. Now developers have no guarantee that every Xbox One player has an active Kinect, pushing it back into the dark for gameplay use.

No, because every Xbox One is still bundled with Kinect, so developers know that everyone has one. If the consumers don't have it plugged in, that's their own fault.

Once again we lose out because Microsoft sucks at communication. Now developers have no guarantee that every Xbox One player has an active Kinect, pushing it back into the dark for gameplay use.

Yes, because the Wii having mandatory motion controls worked out so well, and there were tons of great games utilizing it in cool, revolutionary, non gimicky ways.

Not.

Once again we lose out because Microsoft sucks at communication. Now developers have no guarantee that every Xbox One player has an active Kinect, pushing it back into the dark for gameplay use.

I'm not so disappointed for gameplay, to be honest. Kinect is a little bit of a solution without a problem in gaming.

Not to say that it might not fill a gaming niche someday, but to me the general use of the Kinect by universities and companies for trying crazy shit is much more important, and certainly a lot cooler.

I'll likely be getting one, but mostly for the cool factor.

180 + 180 = 360

Or One complete rotation! Thank you! Thank you! *drops mic and walks off stage*

Just saying. Simple math.

180 + 180 = 360

Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to *NOT* make that joke.

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I've decided . . . just. now. that I don't like you. I was going to give you a surprise party with cake and everything.

Now my feelings are hurt because I can't possibly give you a surprise party because its no longer a surprise because I have decided I don't like you which is now doubled since you made me decide to ruin an already awesome surprise party for you. . . you . . . you monster.

Because.

I'm actually kind of interested in seeing if Kinect can be used with the Twitch streaming capabilites.

No seriously
I have not, and will not, use a Kinect. Hopefully no game devs make it a full fledged requirement (I'm going to have to see some proposed gameplay option that is truly compelling in order for me to halfway consider the extremely limited use of the thing)

I'm terribly glad that the rumored requirement has been rescinded. The One has possibly zombie crawled back onto The List for consideration.

The Kinect on the 360 is extremely limited. It will be interesting to see what new kinds of gameplay are enabled with the Xbox One. For example, instead of having a button dedicated to melee game developers could detect a quick thrust of the controller towards the screen. The Star Wars Kinect game on the 360 was fun as long as you weren't hoping for a game that let you actually control a lightsaber, but on the Xbox One they could perhaps realize something a bit better.

Of course it's all still just speculation based on what MS has announced, but if it's like they say it is the possibilities are exciting.

...to yell "let me grab my headset".

I do not use Kinect at the moment, but the main reason I don't is because how slow and inaccurate it currently is. If the publicity on Kinect 2 is even remotely true I think I will use it quite a bit more. And I will definitely leave it on for the controller tracking.