How dead is Kinect?

Do shops still sell kinect included Xbones?

Haven't heard of any games that support it for a while now.

Don't think I've heard Halo 5 or Forza 6 supporting kinect...?

Last kinect game was Fantasia Music Evolved 6 month ago and don't think any more are coming.

Will Microsoft even mention kinect at E3? or just pretend it never existed?

Kinect was dead before it even launched.

Its been a running joke for a while now and lems are constantly increadbly quiet about it... strange that, they are ususally so loud and obnoxious

Deader than Elvis - Sam Fisher

One a scale of 1 to 10 it is a 20. Gamers complained about it and MS listened and proceeded to send them to the same burial place where ET was buried at for years. The sad part is I think Kinect could have been something amazing but developers are lazy and people weren't interested.

Than a door nail? :P

Seriously though, I bought One without Kinect but people like my son who have X1 with Kinect love it, just not for gaming lol.

They barely even tried to support a device that was force-bundled with the console. Truly atrocious.

I forgot it was still a thing honestly. Crazy move to build their console around it.

How alive is PlayStation camera and Move?

hahaha, dead as a door nail as well and their VR will likely go the same route.

What's a Kinnect?

In my university, during second last semester, one of the group brought Kinect to show their project. Me and my friends were laughing so hard while looking at it. We all knew what's up with the device and recently watched Microsoft's Xbox One reveal conference.

Michael Jackson like............

good riddance, at least it didn't compromise PS4's development or sales

It's dead. I don't even have mine hooked up. For some reason whenever a Xbox commercial would get to the end where the announcer says Xbox one now 349, my X1 would turns on. Won't turn on when I say Xbox On though, so I unhooked it and it's just sitting on a shelf looking sad and dusty. It should've never been bundled and if it weren't for that, the sales war may be much closer than it is now.

last time i remember playstation didn't force move or camera as a central point of their new console, but stay salty.

Really dead, I have my console on automatic sign in and don't use voice commands, so I no longer use it at all. I used it for a little bit with D4 and Ryse, but then decided it was easier to just use a controller, so it just sits under the TV with 3 red lights reminding itself of its failure.

Even more dead the WiiU.

Its alive in my house and gets used everyday

For the most part dead for all its intended purposes.

I'd like to get one for some dance games down the line if they're still making them and if they're any good, unfortunately I got my Xbox One without Kinect to save on costs and getting it alone is pricey, so that has to come down in price first. Hopefully by the time they're selling Kinect for $100 I can get a Just Dance and Dance Central game for $20 each. Thankfully in the meantime I've Just Dance for Wii to hold me over.

Anyhow, maybe finally getting one will assist in capturing game footage and screenshots.

Its about as dead as the PS Move and PS camera.. And that's a good thing. #fuckgimmicks

How dead is Kinect?

Very dead, stinkin´ dead, and the reason why you will still see X1s bundled with Kinect is because retailers haven´t been able to get rid of them.

Oi Vey! *facepalm*

I've said it once and I'll say it again. Let the hermits with deep pockets figure out VR with the Rift and postpone PM until next gen lest Sony see all their profits go up in smoke.

What are you thinking, Sony?!?!? Even if it is well supported (which is highly doubtful) nobody's going to buy a $200~ peripheral. If it costs more God help us.

@Salt_The_Fries: The subject is Kinect and how it was pushed not a optional completely separate set up by Sony.

Looking pretty good to me.

To gamers it was dead since 2010.

Microsoft will be showing more Kinect games at the E3 and the Hololens will work hand and hand with Kinect when it launches. So Kinect is far from dead. At least we already know Sony's MOVE is dead. They completely ignored it at last years E3, after showing a few games at the 2013 E3 for it.

The last Kinect game was D4 I believe. More games are coming though. I can't wait to see how it enhances the Hololens games as you move around the room.

Stay on topic, please. We're talking about Kinect, the accessory that was mandatory for the $500 Xbox One for six months after launch.

Actually, there are some games coming for it, like Fruit Ninja sequel, but there aren't going to be any premiere exclusives for it. However, D4, Dance Central Spotlight and Fantasia Music Evolved garnered excellent scores, and especially Fantasia is a standout.

The thing with Kinect is, it has so much potential for and outside gaming, but it's only realized through hacks and modifications in the latter. It's hard to pretend it isn't cast aside. What I dislike about Kinect is the lack of any boom mic or any sort of implementation of amplification through your headset - that way the voice recognition would've worked 150% of time. Maybe Cortana will be implemented for the Xbone and Kinect will get a second life, at least as a interface utility? Who knows? The only advantage of using Kinect now is the fact that thanks to having its own processor, and a separate core on the Xbone, it can process commands right away, faster than you'd have done them with a controller, and without any lag.

I would have loved a proper strategy game, like some sort of a Halo spin-off, amplified through voice commands, that would finally minimize the controller handicap for this kind of a genre, but this won't ever happen. IMO next gen MS should rework Kinect SOLELY as a interface utility and a camera, make it more compact in size but also cheaper, ditch gaming capabilities altogether but perfect its voice recognition, provide a boom mic, and maybe massively revamp gestures.

Probably if I didn't have to stream from time to time or record gameplay commentaries for my gaming website, I wouldn't have used Kinect now, although like I said it still has an edge over manual commands.

do you always have to damage control by bringing up something about playstation? how insecure are u really.

You may want to ask El Tormo that question and all the other Cows on SW who do the same thing. Also, the MOVE came out around the same time as Kinect, yet cows are calling the Kinect DEAD, when the MOVE hasn't had a game for it in years. Talk about being hypocritical. I also explained why the Kinect isn't dead. Guess you ignored that past and went straight for the PS MOVE info instead. Give it a rest dude. The cows are more insecure then anyone in SW.

Deader than a naked vampire on a sunny day.

ROFLMAO !

waste of billions of dollars.

I said the motion control thing was a fad, and it was a fad. And I'm glad it was a fad.

I had no problem with the concept of a new way of controlling certain things but as for a controller being a "barrier in your hands" LOL no. It's what people want, and ultimately, that's all that matters.

From my own limited worldview most people I've spoken to like the xbox pad best of all (I don't like the dpad on the 360 one, which is a bit of a deal breaker, but I haven't tried the new one. If they got that right this time, it would be pretty hard to beat, but the ps4 pad is also perfect for what it needs to do. Either way you're on to a winner ) so it's a bit ironic that they were the ones to make this call. The truth is, people like devices like keyboards, mice and gamepads to control their experience. I'm not standing in front of my TV pretending my hands are a gun and shouting pew pew, that isn't immersive it's embarrassing.

I'm so glad motion controls didn't catch on.

That is, until Better Than Life (TM) comes out.