8 Crippling Flaws In Popular Video Game Consoles
4. Forcing Broken Kinect Functionality - Xbox One
Evermore baffling the more you think about it. Why, oh WHY, did Microsoft take the one piece of kit that completely bombed on the original 360... before building an entire system interface around it?
You'd think the fact TV manufacturers weren't integrating voice controls would be some indication the average consumer doesn't care about such things, but no... they actively lead with voice commands and motion controls to operate the system's basic menus.
Worst still, the tech didn't even have a 100% success rate. Kinect would lose limbs mid-movement, would load up the wrong thing after mishearing what you said - or just completely fail to do anything, making you wave like a lunatic to wake it up again.
Compounding everything was Microsoft saying the Kinect was required to operate the Xbox One - a "fact" they walked back and released a standalone Xbox One, when the overwhelming consumer response was tantamount to a middle finger.