10 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Xbox One

3. Although The Kinect's Pretty Much Dead

That said, the whole thing gets sort of moot when you consider that Microsoft is very much backing off the enforced use of the Kinect's motion and voice controls. At the start every Xbox One came bundled with that big old camera/movement bar thing which sat atop your TV whilst the console sat under, allowing you to play motion games (because as soon as the Wii started raking in the change Sony and Microsoft wanted a cut of it too) and do all that other fun stuff we've been talking about before, like talking to yourself and having friends interrupt games of Halo. And being spied on. The wholesale abandonment of the Kinect as time's gone by is almost complete, since nowadays new Xbox's aren't being shipped with the little blighters. Which is a whole other crazy thing we have to accept, since we've just got on board with all this other crazy stuff and now it...doesn't really matter. It also means that anybody who bought into the Xbox One for all its cool features (like voice control) and the party games which made use of the motion controls will be majorly disappointed. One of the saddest things about the demise about the Kinect is the possibility of Microsoft putting developers who worked exclusively with the platform out to pasture, including Rare, the pioneering studio who created GoldenEye and Banjo-Kazooie. Or, on the bright side, it might mean that Rare can stop messing around with such frivolous titles, we can stop pretending we actually like those sorts of games, and go back to playing games properly. We don't really have much choice though, do we?