Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect

When I had an apartment I didn't buy one because I had no room. Now I have a house the xbox one S needed special pricey cables, and there were no games. So I never bought one. I really like the idea of the Kinect but I couldn't use it when it was big.

Was really hoping to see more non-xbox kinect uses over the years. More art installations, more retail, more whatever. Sad to see it go.

I bought the original Kinect, and I bought an Xbox One after the Kinect was no longer mandatory but I later bought a separate Kinect for it. It has moments of transcendence and a lot of failures between those moments. There's a handful of games where the Kinect sensor really makes sense, and a lot of games where it was shoehorned in and wasn't fun. The biggest problem is that it requires a lot of space. It's a pain to set up, and often a working setup doesn't work for the rest of your life, so you have to rearrange furniture every time you want to use it. It's an interesting piece of tech, but it never really got to be easy enough to use to be what Microsoft wanted it to be.

The Xbox One is hardly dead, though.

There was a, um, Molyneux effect to consider there too.