I really like the Kinect, I just wish it hadn't been caught up in the whole Xbox One fiasco and games forcing it in creating annoyance.
If it had been more easily compatible with PCs, using a single, regular, USB 3 connector, compatible with Steam and so on, it could still see myself using it for many types of games.
And come on, a Kinect 100% beats the weird IR towers for motion tracking that take up the entire room.
Yeah it could have been a really nice gaming controller if Microsoft had made it more compatible with it's largest gaming platform: Windows
My wife really enjoyed the dance games and they were pretty good for accuracy. Bummer, I was hoping for it to make a come back.
Microsoft is discontinuing the Kinect — again. The company officially stopped manufacturing the depth camera and microphone in 2017 and brought it back in a new form in 2019 as the Azure Kinect Developer Kit. Now, Microsoft is ending production of that, too
I didn't know they brought it back