Kinect-Less Xbox One Coming June 9th

[next-Jin]

Headset for that would have been worthless. Why hunt for the headset, put it on, then use it when I can just walk into a room, say Xbox on and go about my business? Also, when I do not feel like talking, I just hit the power button or use the motion controls after it is turned on. I do not have to use the controller at all if I do not want to except when I am playing my games.

*Sigh* This hatred is getting really dumb.

Maybe not a headset, but certainly a mic could have been built into the console, controller or dongled off the device or even wireless sitting on a shelf. The costs associated with it are in the other technologies it has all of which has not been proven to provide anything meaningful at all.

If Microsoft had VR+Kinect 2+more powerful hardware they could try something but like Sony will experience it's fragmenting their base and likely won't see widespread adoption because of the cost of entry.

 

[rudy]

Kinect was the only interesting part of Xbox one, now that it is no longer a known part of the system MS is done. I can no longer recommend this console for just about any scenario.