I read there are far more Kinectless Xbones sold to consumers than there are Kinected Xbones, so I fear developers and publishers see less and less reasons to support Kinect. There is more money making games for the entire Xbone fanbase instead of the tiny segmented Kinect buyers.
We can hope the smaller 1st party cranks out something worthwhile, but if they could do that, they would have had those amazing 1st party Kinect Xbone games at launch, and they didn't. They sort of put Kinect out there, told everyone Kinect was part of the machine, and hoped for the best...then released a Kinectless sku after the fact.
I fear this Kinect is headed the same exact direction as the 360's Kinect. Good for dancing and a tiny few odd experimental games.
There is also the growing problem of Kinect just not working after some time (somehow updates just dont go through the kinect). I read about Kinect Xbone problems and figured it would never happen to me, but a week or so ago, I got hit with the same bug. I think it was Halo MCC, but I'm not sure. My Kinect says it's not plugged and it's plugged in. My Xbone Kinect is now a $150 paperweight. My Kinect was never moved and in pristine condition. In fact, my Xbone doesn't even get played that much since I own all the machines and only buy only exclusives for the Xbone, no multiplats. I did all the Xbox.com "Kinect isn't working" solutions to no avail. That is Xbox.com so clearly M$ knows this is Kinect just not working one day is a very real issue as there is more than a few ways to try and fix Kinect. Perhaps it has to do with the Kinectless Xbone's out there. Considering the bleak future of Kinect after considerable analyzing and the fact I could hardly use it anyways since my 7.1 system is too loud, I haven't decided if I'm going to call Xbox to get them to try and fix (or replace) or just sell it. I'm fairly confident the Kinect just stopped working has something to do with a recent Xbone update. Eh.
Here's a few videos on the Kinect problem (one day it won't work) for you new Xbone with Kinect owners:
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