The Internet Reacts To Kinect-Free Xbox One

Starting in June, the Xbox One will be available without the Kinect, enabling Microsoft to sell the console at a cheaper price-point. It’s a controversial move that many were hoping Microsoft would eventually make—which also means it’s a move that plenty of people have opinions on.

Overall, reactions mostly fall in a few camps: snark, disappointment (all the Kinect believers are coming out of the woodwork), and curiosity over what a Kinect-free console means for the future of the console after Microsoft initially made such a big deal about how it was going to be mandatory. A few folks even seem straight up angry or wronged, but they’re a minority, as far as I can tell.

Let’s take a look at what people around the web are saying about the Kinect news, shall we?

Good work, everyone. Now let's REALLY mess around with them and demand they make Kinect mandatory again #BringBackKinect #Kinect4Life

— formerly Size Five Games (@danthat) May 13, 2014

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how cool would it be to bring in your kinect to @GameStop for a 100 dollar instore credit for some new games. business, synergy make it so!

— ai swarm (@F1sT) May 13, 2014

Now that Xbone has dropped the stupid Kinect, I may consider getting that console if its games are interesting.

— Attack of the Anime Avatars (@Isuimanim) May 13, 2014

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The Kinect does not need the things that Microsoft makes. It needs to embrace the weird bullshit that made the Oculus an odd gaming darling.

— chris person (@Papapishu) May 13, 2014

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Please back @AmplitudeGame on kickstarter. We at @Harmonix could use a happy boost today. http://t.co/r5xh3E8kZR

— johntdrake (@johntdrake) May 13, 2014

Now that we have a Kinect-less Xbox One, I wonder if its sales performance will influence Nintendo in to having a Gamepad-less Wii U option.

— GeorgieBoysAXE is on BlueSky because Nazis are bad (@GeorgieBoysAXE) May 13, 2014

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*throws Kinect in the trash* *turns around and finds Kinect camera back on the TV stand where it was before* *Kinect slowly turns and nods*

— Alex Navarro (@alex_navarro) May 13, 2014

Isn't removing the Kinect kind of wrong? Wasn't the console designed around it?

— Shane Luis (@RerezTV) May 13, 2014

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With the news of a Kinect-less Xbox One, I drew this to mark the occasion. pic.twitter.com/R9CNmAIqPT

— Zed (@dedhedzed) May 13, 2014

Xbox One without Kinect will not respond to voice commands, as opposed to with Kinect when it only usually didn’t respond to voice commands

— Ex-CEO Kaz Hirai (@KazHiraiCEO) May 13, 2014

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Just passed a dude on Polk Street with his dick just hanging out of his pants. Folks are dealing with this Xbox news in some strange ways.

— Marty Sliva (@McBiggitty) May 13, 2014

I'm willing to bet that Microsoft will unveil a new UI for the Xbox One at E3 since it's horrible without Kinect. Hence the June 9th release

— Nick McCandless (@NickMcCandless) May 13, 2014

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I wonder if Microsoft will also finally bring auto sign-in on Xbox One cause you can't do that unless you use Kinect

— Wario64 (@Wario64) May 13, 2014