Another nail in the Kinect coffin: Microsoft stops making the adapter for use with Xbox One S

The death of Kinect is something that does not come as a surprise After its debut with the Xbox 360 and a promising start, it had a slow fall into hell Firstly, due to the lack of games that could take advantage of their full potential (and beware, that's a lot) and above all due to the lack of tact (and support from Microsoft itself).

To start with the Xbox One at its launch forced to buy Kinect, with the logical overprice of the machine. A fact that was not liked at all and that incidentally placed the Xbox One above the PlayStation 4 in terms of price.They reconsidered in Redmond and gave the option to buy the console without Kinect, but it was too late. The damage was done. Then came the lack of titles with this new Kinect in what meant the slow decline of the peripheral. Something that made Microsoft stop producing Kinect in October, a decision to which another one is now being added to bury Kinect definitively.

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And it&39;s that Microsoft will stop manufacturing the Xbox Kinect adapter for Xbox One S, Xbox One X and Windows PC A connector that it was the only way to be able to use the Kinect with these consoles that no longer had the specific port. In fact, the adapter allows you to connect the Kinect port to one of the console&39;s normal USB ports."

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A decision that, according to a Redmond spokesperson, obeys the company&39;s intention to focus its efforts on creating game accessories requested by fansand put aside accessories that are not in significant demand in the market."

You have to remember that since the Xbox One S arrived on the market without its own connector for Kinect (in its version 2) since Redmond had the deference to buyers by providing them free of charge for the 8 months following the launch of the Xbox One S the adapter to connect the Kinect. An accessory that he later went on to sell.

This way if you want to use Kinect and you don't have a first-generation Xbox One you'll have to look at a chain or store that still have a unit for sale (there are also generic ones) before they run out and all that remains is to pull the second-hand market.

Source | Polygon In Xataka Windows | Microsoft ends Kinect: the final story of a peripheral with a life as ephemeral as its successes