Xbox One will function without Kinect

MS really are the u-turn kings. They're unable to make a decision that sticks.

1 - Now Kinect can be turned off "just like Sony'.

2 - Now they are going to sell XB1 without Kinect for cheaper price 'just like Sony.

Every u-turn they make, simply adds more confirmation how good Sony are at planning and design. They should have hired Sony as a consultant.

It really is an ill thought out mess. There will be people paying for Kinect and never using it, plus people who don't buy Kinect and only get half the systems functionality. They made the mistake of making a hackable spycam integral to the GUI experience, and now that GUI experience isn't available to all users.

Turning it off in the preferences is still open to an online security exploit. If a hacker can get through to the camera and control it, he can just as easily turn the preference back on. The only 100% safe protection is to unplug the damn thing but then you won't get the GUI functionality to turn it back on if requested by a game.

You xbox guys must be extremely loyal to put up with all this. I would be jumping ship to xbox if Sony messed up this bad with all the u-turns and a less powerful console.

Xbox One will function without Kinect, but you still have to pay $100 for it.

No thanks M$.

Nice come there will be a XBOX ONE bundle with a game and no Kinect for $399 shortly after first release.

No one in Asia will buy it regardless, Xbox is such a big flop over there. What is the fucking point.

Well I think that mass gamer backlash worked. So literally almost every "announcement" they made at E3 or prior to E3 has been squashed out of complete disdain for them; good job, gamers, seriously well done. We love progression but only where necessary. We're already looked at as statistics in almost everything we do both in and out of gaming and for this to now not be a mandatory piece of the next gen console Microsoft is putting out is a great step forward for consumer awareness and market control.

I applaud those who stood up and weren't accepting of what Microsoft wanted to impose on us.

So WHY THE F.... do I have to pay for it? I don't' want it! Bad business.

Ok so they say it will "function" without the kinect, but i wonder how long it will take for a message along the lines of "please plug in kinect to continue" to pop up

Now that you don't need the Kinect for the Xbox one to work, surly it would make sense to release a Xbox one bundle without the Kinect. It might actually do them good.

Microsoft: "The Kinect 2.0 no longer needs to be plugged in for the Xbox One console to work........but we're still going to make you pay for it....."

Ms will still tell developers to put kinect stuff in the games as much as possible to try and force people into using it. Eventually the public will get used to it and the Gen afterwards when they force it on everyone......people will be more desensitized to the Kinect being apart of the console. MS may of lost the Kinect battle right now but they have plans to win the war.

I thought this was impossible lol.

This is good news though. I wont knock a positive move. But im still not buying one lol

I honestly don't care if whatever or whomever is spying on me because i got NOTHING to hide. I like the xbox 360 and always have so I will buy an xbox one regardless of price or whatever package it comes with it.

Xbox one has been confirmed it has maxed out pre-order sales at best buy, amazon, etc. I am not fond of the kinect and I would never use but it is what it is. I'll be having fun playing while all the complainers can sit in a corner and cry, so really, people need to stop complaining and just deal with it.

This is gaming...NOT poltics....so quit debating

When toggled "off," the Kinect is not collecting any information at all, Whitten said.

That means when it "is" on, it "is" collecting information, which means they actually "are" spying on you. Wow!

They should just cancel that whole mess of a console and save everyone the time

Still off the deal for the system. I think I'd rather get a PS3 then any of those other consoles.

I find it funny how Major Nelson has pre-empted all of the Youtube videos that would have come from people opening their new consoles. =)

This means a Kinectless Xbox One SKU will be coming within the next year.

we pay the extra $100 even if we never use that pos spying device. xbox 180 is looking worse and worse every effing day.

Why not have voice commands available via headset if the Kinect is turned off? It's kinda sad how this product is falling apart due to bad marketing and horrible explanation on behalf of Microsoft.

We will always have to sacrifice certain civil liberties and privacy in order to take advantage of advanced technology, but is it worth it? Obviously Microsoft is not doing a good job in convincing us it is.

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With the voice recognition stuff with Xbox One why did I not hear about them making it where we could say what we wanted in a message but have it appear in text if we so decided to as the current way of sending text messages on Xbox 360 is painful.

It is not Xbox One anymore MS. I didn't like your original plan for many reasons and I associate all you wanted at the beginning with the Xbox One title. Please change the title of the console and make sure this thing works properly and if the rumours are true of a delay til Feb 2014 cuz of all the changes well I don't mind that as long as you get everything right with the console and people don't end up with machines that are total headaches.

it better have good price

But M$ spent hundreds of millions developing the Kinect. You will buy it. And you will like it.

Or you just get a PS4:)

this guy opens that xbox with the grace of a chimpanzee...

xbox minus one

One thing is to make the Kinect not mandatory.

A completely different thing is not to include it inside the box.

Conclusion: You don't have to plug it in order to play games, but you still have to pay for it in order to play games.

Made a 180

Made another 180

Now they just need to revert it all back to their original plan and it will be an xbox 720, the number we all believed they were going to use

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAM OH DEAR THIS IS SO FUNNY XD XD XD... MS was forced to make the Kinect not mandatory XD XD... For gamers, that's music to their ears. For MS, it's a LOT, BIG LOT, HUGE LOT of money just going away.

But you can't disconnect it can you? It just sits there? Staring at you... into your soul... waiting...

wow Microsoft is blowing it.

Either stick to your guns, or release a version of the console WITHOUT KINECT!

The whole reason Xbone is $500 is because of the kinect. Sony cut Eye to release at $400, Microsoft could've done the same if they are now saying Kinect is not required!!!

If they are forcing everyone to have a kinect they might as well stick to their guns and use it!

if xbone was $400, after they reversed their DRM policies, and it didn't sell with a kinect, it might have made me really think twice about which console i preorder. they lost me as a customer to PS4 this gen and i think through all this "damage control" microsoft has been doing post E3 they are just making themselves look weak. they are making some smart moves and other poor decisions.

LMAO....Square How about a final fantasy 7 remake YES!!!

All this Xbox hate has really put me off this site, I used to enjoy it but now there is just poison coming out of these comments all the time. I'm giving Gamespot a miss for a while, will come back after the release dates and see if it has changed. Laters.

The way that the console started clearly says that all they care about is sucking away your money, as does the fact that they reluctantly pulled a U-turn on just about everything their new Xbox stood for. Clearly all of the companies just want your money, but at least the developers down at Sony care enough to keep the gaming atmosphere the same way that gamers have grown so accustomed to, rather than trying to get a tighter grip on gamers' wallets.