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Xbox One Kinect Adapter Discontinued in Favour of 'Higher Fan Requested Gaming Accessories': Microsoft

Xbox One Kinect Adapter Discontinued in Favour of 'Higher Fan-Requested Gaming Accessories': Microsoft 216l3p

By Rishi Alwani | Updated: 3 January 2018 12:51 IST

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Xbox One Kinect Adapter Discontinued in Favour of 'Higher Fan-Requested Gaming Accessories': Microsoft

Highlights

The Kinect adapter was a USB accessory
It allowed use of Kinect on Xbox One S, Xbox One X, and Windows PC
Microsoft has confirmed that it has ceased production

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Microsoft’s Xbox One and Windows PC has ceased production. It’s the USB accessory necessary to use the Xbox One Kinect sensor with an Xbox One X, Xbox One S, or a Windows PC. 484k1a

“After careful consideration, we decided to stop manufacturing the Xbox Kinect Adapter to focus attention on launching new, higher fan-requested gaming accessories across Xbox One and Windows 10,” a Microsoft representative said in a statement to Polygon. The aforementioned representative declined to discuss Microsoft’s product plans, but it did state that the adapter “will no longer be available.”

This move was inevitable. Late last year, Microsoft stopped manufacturing Kinect altogether.

According to an interview with Kinect creator Alex Kipman and General Manager of Xbox Devices Marketing, Matthew Lapsen, Xbox One.

“Trust is something you earn in drops and lose in buckets,” said Kipman in conversation with Fast Co Design, alluding to industry-wide concern over consumer privacy when the Xbox One launched with Kinect back in 2013. “I’d say Kinect started the process in 2010 in having to earn drops of trust. Any number of [bad] events in the world, each one, you lose a bucket.”

Considering the PS4 is Xbox One S or Xbox One X have ports for the Kinect, requiring s to spend for an additional accessory to use it.

“When we introduced Xbox One, we designed it to have the best experience with the Kinect. That was our goal with the Xbox One launch,” says Lapsen. “And like all product launches, you monitor that over time, you learn and adjust.”

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