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-1263839-20140514072212

I must say that in the games I've played on Xbox One with the Kinect (which is very few, mind), I've took an extreme dislike to it. I already guessed that this would happen before I got one. The Quick-Time Event in Dead Rising 3 is much better than the waggle stick of 1 and 2, and the Kinect has issues with registering my voice so DR3 and Ryse are basically stranded if I have the thing on.

I'm on the fence about this. On the one hand a Kinect less, cheaper version will guarantee Xbox One sales (which were already pretty good to begin with), but on the other developers will, as you said, be less inclined to try and incorporate the Kinect. Unlike the Wii U's pad, the Kinect was a salvageable gimmick. My experience will be unaffected, but those who did like the Kinect have my sympathies.