Remembering The Life And Times Of The Xbox Kinect
Xbox Kinect is one of the strangest peripherals in gaming history. Certainly, it’s the strangest one I can remember owning. Though it’s not usually thought of in the same league as the Power Glove (if you don’t know what that is, you’re too young and I hate you), it probably deserves to be.
Most other peripherals suit their name. They are on the periphery of things. They aren’t a necessary part of the equation. If you don’t want to turn your Wii controller into a gun with some plastic and elastic, you don’t need to. Likewise, you aren’t missing out on any quintessential console experience by having never played the Band Hero drums. That’s not the case with the Kinect.
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Games consoles aren’t really sure what they are these days. For the first couple of decades or so of their lives, they were toys. Brightly coloured, odd shapes, frosted purple plastic - toys. These days, our homes are full of technology, and consoles seek to blend in. My three consoles are all white with a black trim, and they all sit neatly on my white TV stand, blending into the decor seamlessly. The Xbox One arrived in between this era. The 360 was a funky-shaped toy that glowed green and had a hard drive for a hat, while both the Series S and Series X are bland technology boxes. The Xbox One was both and neither.
The Xbox One is a pretty silly name. I understand Xbox opting for 360 as its second console - to a casual player, the PlayStation 3 just sounds better than the Xbox 2. But naming its third console One, even though many people called the original Xbox the Xbox One, was daft. Its reasoning was entirely thought up in marketing meetings that were too clever for their own good, as the
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