The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex ...

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And just like that, all three of the major game consoles now have some semblance of motion controls. Unlike the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation Move, however, Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 opts to get ...

A more affordable version of the Xbox One -- without the Kinect motion sensor -- hits stores on June 9. Is this the version gamers have been waiting for? Jeff Bakalar Editor at Large Jeff is CNET ...

Today the Xbox One without Kinect has been announced, throwing massive numbers of gamers for a loop. Up until today, very few suspected that Microsoft would ever release their Xbox One game console ...

Four months after it began selling the Xbox One without a Kinect sensor in June, Microsoft will now offer up a way for customers to purchase the motion-tracking device separately. The company ...

Today’s Xbox Scorpio hardware specs reveal continues to erode Microsoft’s insistence that Kinect is an important part of the Xbox ecosystem. Like the Xbox One S before it, Scorpio is losing the ...

Microsoft's $150 Xbox add-on, the Kinect, can use face-recognition technology to log you onto your Xbox Live account. But it's not trouble-free. To understand why, you need to know how it works.

Kinect certainly isn't the integral part of the Xbox One it was at launch, but it remains an active part of how owners of the camera and microphone array interact with the console, Microsoft tells ...

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The Xbox One you pull out of a box today is not the same system that day-one purchasers hooked up to their TVs last year. Its looks and specs haven’t changed, but its features have certainly improved.

[UPDATE] A Microsoft representative provided some further details in a statement to GameSpot. "Gesture controls for navigating the dashboard were removed to focus on fan-requested features resulting ...