Playing Destiny on the Xbone... (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Monday, May 11, 2015, 18:55 (3485 days ago) @ Korny

And for how I personally use the XB1: the Kinect. It's actually awesome with the XB1 and I love it. It annoys me when an XB1 I'm using doesn't have it. And they of course designed the interface to use the Kinect because it used to be required to at least get one when you bought the XB1.

That is a darn shame, friend. Unless they come out with a Kinect 3.0 that's cheaper than the current one AND doubles as a home security system, I'm not going to waste my money just because MS worked hard to make things inconvenient without it (I remember at the LANboree when I found out that you couldn't record a gameplay clip without Kinect. The sheer stupidity of it gave me a headache)...

I view an Xbox One without Kinect as crippled. And there's a difference between working hard to make things inconvenient without it and designing it from the ground up to use Kinect and retrofitting it later, which is obviously the case for the Xbox One.

Kinect is pretty awesome. I give PS4 the edge overall, but it's a slight edge--it's not like the PS4 isn't without its foibles--I hate the Playstation Store and the Library, for example. I hate the way Playstation delivers promotional content (I must watch your preview on 1/5th of the screen? Really?) . The Xbox store isn't much better (where are the freaking trailers?), but at least twitch is integrated and you can watch the game you're interested in being played pretty much instantly.