MS Still Delusional Over Kinect and Downplays DX12 Importance.

"And Kinect plays a very important role in that.”

“Just with Kinect coming in, it is so easy for everybody in the family to interact with the device just to switch it on with voice, just to change you know what you want to watch. It just makes it easier more comfortable to interact. It adds more of an expedience when it is inside a game. You know Skype…if you’ve used Skype on Xbox One you would know what that experience is…it’s just mind boggling to have that level of clarity and that level of video experience on a chat so you know they obviously are part of the larger plan that we have to enable different experiences with our devices.”

"Mor also shared his thoughts on DirectX 12 and how it can possibly help with an enhanced games experience.

“The whole API bit is just an enhancement from a gaming experience perspective. It’s a differentiation, it’s an enhancement from a gaming perspective. The kind of stuff that I have read about internally in terms of the value it brings to the whole gaming experience, I would see that as the end consumer impact. Not many consumers would understand what the APIs were or what DX is or you know stuff like that but I think to them it is just a very highly enhanced consumer experience in terms of gameplay that would come through.”

http://gamingbolt.com/microsoft-exec-xbox-one-kinect-still-phenomenally-important-dx12-enhances-gaming-experience

Kinect is great for non gaming items and people are using it everyday ( including me ) for voice commands/Skype/game chat etc....and Cortana is on her way as well.

And that's why they are 12,000,000+ units behind the main competitor.

What is this? Bash Xbox day? We know that DX12 won't really benefit games! Kinect maybe useless for some, but I do enjoy having a camera and voice recognition! All I read is that cows are jelly that they don't have the same experience from kinect with there shitty playstation eye

I still love my Xbox One because the CPU itself is stronger than the entire PS4. /s

Never go full Lem!

Kinect is pretty lackluster. Mine isn't hooked up, and the only thing I liked it for was "Xbox record that". But even that wore off as I never really record much. Just my opinion,

I still use my Kinect every day, but I don't think I've ever used it for gaming, only to turn my entertainment system on/off, record videos, and for hands-free skype/netflix. I'm not too concerned with DX12 and any gains it may or may not bring, as long as the game is fun I'm not concerned with fps or res.

Art of war though ;)

lol hopefully someone gets that reference, blacklem might

INB4 people bring up the Playstation Move.

And a reminder to those people; the general failure of the Kinect is, in many ways, worse than the failure of the Move for two primary reasons; the astronomical amounts of resources Microsoft dumped into the Kinect [only to still have it fail anyway], and the extent Microsoft sacrificed its core gamer audience *for* the Kinect. Sony made some pretty boring conferences out of the Move [LOL Wonderbook], but it wasn't a crushing, oppressive force of bullshit and boredom for years like Microsoft's focus on the Kinect was.

Thanks for your concern.

I'm so glad we have Sony fans to give us these daily 1001 reasons to hate Xbox posts. I now hate my Xbox even more!

Does the XB1 even still come with kinect? lol The early adopters got the full on shaft, its worthless.

We can read between the lines, people be salty Xbox One getting Halo 5.

Me.

Yeah, he is extremely delusional or he thinks the Kinect owners are.

@flyincloud1116: There's nothing that uses DX12 yet. Don't see the point of mentioning it.

@PraetorianMan:Yes, and the most important difference is the sacrifice Microsoft did with the X1 because of Kinect. The power and hardware was sacrificed because of the costs having Kinect as standard with every X1. Had it not been for Kinect, I'm sure they would have gone for a more powerfull APU.

That ain't why. There are a LOT of other reasons though.

Steam's easy access Ashes of Singularity has DX12 support.

That's gotta be the most long winded way of saying something but not telling us anything at all

look at this ^