Microsoft Abandoning Kinect?

Let's hope so...

If you've been following Xbox One E3 conference, you probably noticed something. That Kinect was clearly not present during the presentation, just good old fashioned games. What the hell happened? Lets just say after several months, the gaming community seems to mostly don't want or even care about Microsoft's notorious camera peripheral and I think they're getting the message. First they removed the mandatory requirement for it to be plugged in at all times and now they starting to sell the console without the device at all which leads me to believe Microsoft is going to trash the Kinect entirely sooner or later. It honestly all makes sense, after the 360 and Microsoft's horrendous reveal of the Xbox One, their reputation took a severe kick in the face and a lot of it had to do with Kinect. The device has become associated with privacy invasion, shoddy voice commands, and price inflation and at this rate there really doesn't seem to be a way Microsoft can make the device better for users as it really is just a steaming pile of poo. But thinking of it in another way, what if Microsoft didn't shoot themselves in the foot at the start? We could have been looking at a neck and neck console war again but no, mistakes were made, people were pissed off, and now Microsoft is paying the price for it. I think Xbox is recovering from it's huge mistakes it's made over the past couple of months in the right way and they're working to make the One a better system. As for Kinect... well... there's a bunch of lonely E.T. cartridges in a New Mexico landfill that could use some company.