Microsoft: "Xbox One is Kinect"

Hhaha this article is now a classic

you need the kinect plug in all the time when you start the xbox one, i read it up in gameinformer #246

@SharpBlades3 @sevencowsmoo hahaha

Bloody asshats aren't releasing Voice activation for Australia at launch.. yet The PS4 is.. I own a PC a 360 and a PS3.. I have both the PS4 and the Xbone on pre-order.. Im thinking very seriously of ending them both as Im not real happy with the crap about a $100 difference when the PS4 is $549 and the Xbone is $599 here in AU.. Im starting to think that life is way simpler and pretty decent with just Steam on my PC.. at least game prices vary according to quality in most cases..

The Kinect is an expensive paperweight that probably 80% of gamers don't want nor plan to get games that use it. To have it forced on me if I want a Xbone makes me want one even less. Microsoft should have told people they cant have it so they would want it.

HA! It's a good way to attract the rich kids!

thats great and all, but what if i get pissed off and throw my xbox one breaking it. This means that even if i already have a kinect for the system. I'm stuck paying for another one

Dear Microsoft GO **** YOUR SELF!

If they're synonymous as he believes, then why is there such as word as "Kinect".

I'm really excited for Kinect. It's bundled with every Xbox One, so every Xbox One game can take advantage of it. Even if it's just little extra things, it'll be awesome. I can't wait to see what ideas developers can come up with to utilize Kinect to add an additional layer to the gameplay.

Ooo saying "Xbox on" is a very magical experience? I don't know what you're smoking, Phil, but you need to stop smoking that sh*t. Speech recognition isn't new. I can go get a speech recognition software like Dragon and install it on a pc. I'll bet it does the same speech recognition features as the Xboner does. :P

but i don't want kinect... and x1 is kinect, so i don't want it. thanks for making this easy for me m$ :D

Still going with X1, BUT if this asshat thinks I am not getting rid of that spying paperweight they are including he is on something magical all right, I am thinking mushrooms.

Phil, you think saying "Xbox On" is magical? Man, you have really fallen.

An important and overlooked fact is mandatory kinect creates a standard, base for all games to work on. Game developers don't have to worry if their game will be limited to kinect owners, gamers don't have to decide if they can afford additional hardware for one game. A major value of consoles is you don't have to read the back and see if you have the necessary hardware to run a game. If It says Xbox One, it'll play. the autism in these forums is astounding.

They are really banking on that "people who enjoy talking to inanimate objects" market, aren't they? It's all too easy for me to imagine people like Phil Harrison just walking around their homes and yelling at all of their appliances and electronics like a deranged lunatic.

"TOASTER! TOAST BAGEL!"

"COFFEE MAKER! SLOWLY BREW COFFEE!"

"DAMMIT TOASTER! I MEANT ON THE BAGEL SETTING!"

"KITCHEN TRACK LIGHTING! CAST THUNDERBOLT ATTACK! KERRKRARKKEERSPOOOSH!"

there are some dumb ass people on here. he said Kinect is part of the xbox one. saying you want to play xbox one without it is like you want to learn algebra without variables. uh you cant they are all connected. trying to eliminate it will just leave you only understanding basic baby math. addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, fractions too if its not to complicated for you.

I'm curious how the more expensive console will do against Sony. In the current console generation, there is no clear winner. Of course early on the Xbox was doing much better than the PS3, but in the long run it didn't matter. So how will the cheaper price point impact the next console war? Will Sony take the early lead like Microsoft did with the 360 launch? The main question I guess, is was the 360 so successful initially because it launched a year earlier, or because it was cheaper?

I say: Xbox dOne

Funny, as I read the comments I feel like I'm at work. The majority of people there also hate change.

For me, the real problem with the Kinect is that it makes the XBox One more expensive than the PS4. Since I am not the kind of gamer to play games requiring a Kinect, I feel like I am paying too much for a useless peripheral. If the price of the XBox One was the same than the PS4, I am sure nobody would complain and the only thing we would hear is that a lot of people would not use it. So if Microsoft really want to force people to buy the Kinect with the XBox One, just drop the price to the same level of the PS4, and it will sell.

A paper weight may as well be one of the "pillars of the Xbox One". For most adopters of the system, that is exactly what it will be. The Kinect is no different to the Xbox One than it was to the Xbox 360, now that they reversed their stance on it's importance.

I guess Phil Harrison can buy all the Xbone's that everyone else will shun because of the stubborn policy of forcing motion control on gamers. They think this will win Wii's "blue ocean" adopters that want to move on. Those people are fine with what the Wii offers, and don't spend $500 on hardware. MS thinks the hardcore will follow once they get the Wii money, but that's not how it works. The early adopters usually decide what everyone else attaches on to (in some form), so if we're not into it, it won't last long enough to get to a price where "Wii owners looking to upgrade" will buy it (which isn't a legitimate market, anyway, imho).

So does that mean at Gamestop if someone goes to trade it in they will reply with "You need the Xbox and controller too."?

"very magical experience." yeah voice command is very magical....

Basically they've spent billions upon billions of dollars buying up and developing further Kinect even though it's just a glorified Eye-Toy. They have to push it because their investors are starting ask some difficult questions ....

Its just a shame that motion gaming came and went a few years back.