2. That The Kinect Is Still Broken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hogMGBqVMLk Finally we come to the people who have paid the money up front, the seemingly tiny voiceless minority who are happy to back the machine, grateful for a motion and voice-controlled future, willing to wait out the downtime between titles for the sake of something far more entertaining down the line. Even they can't actively say the Kinect is a reliable piece of hardware though. Across the board you need only start typing the very words 'Xbox Kinect' into any search engine for the auto-complete to start suggesting failure videos. It seems that even though the idea of mentioning a few commands out loud and having them recognised could have been the slickest 'the future is now'-style feeling available, instead it just makes the user feel ridiculous. Any communication-based technology that's attempting to offer an alternative to what otherwise works almost every single time, has to make sure it literally works every single time. Many of us didn't even want to indulge in the idea of voice control at all, but for those that gave it a shot, as soon as they talked out into the darkness with no one around and the Kinect responded with that blank stare only computer screens can have, it was all over.