Looking Back in Xbox History - "The Kinect is officially dead, as Microsoft stops manufacturing the accessory"

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[u/politirob]

The Kinect and its teams unrelenting assault upon Microsoft's game business single-handedly destroyed XBOX.

Omg I cannot stress how all the steam in the engine evaporated with their massive Kinect push.

Fucking FABLE journey?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable:_The_Journey

That fucking lion video game?

https://youtu.be/Va-NXzhciVM?si=tH_bePwjG1w3a-Xj

I completely tuned out of video games as a lifelong hobbyist and didn't come back until 2017 lmao

[u/outla5t → u/politirob]

You have no idea what you are talking about Kinect sold 31 million units, it literally kept Xbox 360 selling when Xbox gave no other reason to buy one.

People need to stop blaming things that happened (or didn't happen) 10 years ago for the state of Xbox now. Spencer led Xbox during the whole Xbox One era and it was a complete failure yet people still want to point the finger at the reveal wtf? I'm sorry but Xbox One did not fall behind PS4 by over 50 million because of a single year they sold the kinect with the Xbox One, it was the lack of games and direction that made people stray away from Xbox as they continue to do now.

[u/ThroawayPartyer → u/outla5t]

Yeah it's funny. To this day I see comments blaming the planned online DRM for why the Xbox One failed. Despite this being fully canceled by the time the console released.

[u/outla5t → u/ThroawayPartyer]

It happens so much in this sub in particular too you would think these Xbox fans would know better. Don't get me the reveal was executed terribly but it's completely ridiculous Xbox fans are still blaming that and Mattrick for Xbox's continued failure rather than the guy who was in charge of Xbox from April 2014 to this very day.