If Scorpio is a more high-end system, I would like to see it include a Kinect port on the back of the box so we can continue to use the Kinect without taking up a USB port. Xbox One S is removing the Kinect port on the back of the system. This is a far cry from the formerly “ integral” Kinect that the Xbox One launched with, and not everyone is happy about it. The $40 adapter needed to connect the Kinect to an Xbox One S and, it appears, the Xbox Scorpio Xboxįurther discounting the company’s long-term enthusiasm for Kinect, Microsoft’s plans to include the adapter in new retail Kinect packages failed to come to fruition, and the adapter’s product page on Microsoft’s own store fails to point out the need for the USB adapter.
While the Xbox Kinect Adapter program is no longer being offered, the adapter will continue to be available for purchase at participating retailers, including Microsoft Store. The Xbox Kinect Adapter program was a limited-time offer, in tandem with the launch of Xbox One S in August 2016, to ensure that gamers who own a Kinect for Xbox One could seamlessly enjoy all the same Kinect benefits on the Xbox One S via a free adapter. Kinect will be compatible with Project Scorpio via the Xbox Kinect Adapter and the experience will not change due to the connection. Microsoft issued Polygon the following statement: When the Xbox One S was released last August, more than two years after the Kinect was unbundled from the console, Microsoft offered a free adapter to users who had already purchased an Xbox One and an Xbox One Kinect. That’s the only instance of the word Kinect across the article’s massive, 4,000-plus word count. “Since port arrangement is based on Xbox One S, there's no return for the original Xbox One's Kinect port (a USB adapter is required) but the HDMI input is retained,” Digital Foundry writes in its Xbox Scorpio hardware reveal. Like the Xbox One S before it, Scorpio is losing the dedicated Kinect port, replacing it with a $40 adapter that lets you use the peripheral with one of the console’s USB ports and an additional external power supply.
Today’s Xbox Scorpio hardware specs reveal continues to erode Microsoft’s insistence that Kinect is an important part of the Xbox ecosystem.
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