Serious discussions surrounding the removal of Kinect started around a month ago, shortly after Spencer accepted the position as head of Xbox. Yusuf Medhi and Phil Spencer looked at a list of “things we wanted to work on,” and Kinect, Games With Gold on Xbox One, and making entertainment apps available to all Xbox owners topped the list.
Microsoft hasn’t decided what its standalone Kinect will cost later this year, but head of Xbox Phil Spencer says “the price probably won’t be exactly $100.”
With E3 looming, Microsoft now has more time to focus on games — something Spencer repeats adamantly.
“We wanted to get this out of the way so that E3 could be about the games and the great platform lineup.”
