Do I want Kinect? (Gaming)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Monday, October 26, 2015, 02:07 (3316 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Games that use Kinect don't usually appeal to me, so I wouldn't get one unless it was crucial to the Xbone interface. Sounds like that's not the case.

The current UI really sucks, and voice commands went a long way towards making it bearable.

The new UI is sadly not much better. In some ways it's actually worse, in fact, because they removed the ability to make clips longer than 30 seconds (to name one issue).

The new UI launching next month (which has been slowly rolling out to select users for testing) is much, much, much better. I'm not sure what your experience with the One is, but things like Party and Friends were previously awful. It would take upwards of fifteen seconds to open the Party or Friends app sometimes, but it's now more similar to the way the 360 handles it, where those things are always available from a Guide that pops up with a double tap of the Xbox button.

Not sure if it's just me, but the new UI is ridiculously slow. There is upwards of a three-second delay between input and response, and the Party system only works some of the times (I'll often be in the party, but I can't hear anyone). Then again, it is a beta test, but with launch only being weeks away...

From what little you've said about it, I'd say you probably wouldn't be served very well with Kinect, so I wouldn't worry about it in your case, especially if Kinect games don't appeal to you.

The new UI was specifically designed to work without Kinect, and it is much better in terms of app accessibility, if nothing else.