User blog comment:Damac1214/Microsoft Just Removed the Kinect Being Bundled With the Xbox One, and This is a Huge Mistake (And How This Relates to Call of Duty)/@comment-5619949-20140514145855

Having purchased an Xbox One on release day, I honestly don't see the huge selling point in the Kinect. I think even game manufacturers are trying to avoid the hardware all together. Forza Motorsport 5 has nearly no Kinect features, where Forza 4 had Kinect-assisted steering which was completely removed. As you mentioned, Ghosts intended to use the Kinect but ultimately decided not to. Even Titanfall, Xbox One's "flagship" game, has no Kinect compatibility that I could find. As for the Kinect unit itself, it could have been designed much better. The built in microphone still sounds like you are underwater no matter how close or far you are from it, and the voice recognition is very annoying. If I want to use the "Xbox, record that" feature (which is about the only thing I use the Kinect for), it has about a 50% chance of thinking I said "Xbox One Guide", which led to multiple lost multiplayer matches on Forza and Ghosts. In all honesty, if I were to get an Xbox One today knowing how the Kinect works, I would opt for the model without it. As for future games, I feel that it will follow the same route as the 360 Kinect, where the only games to actually use it are pure gimmick games like Kinect Star Wars.