new Xbox to be revealed May 21

Neo wrote:

Kinect still comes bundled with the system and will likely be required for some features/games.

yeah, definitely, it just won't have to be plugged in all the time for the system to even work.

The question is to what extent will the system will 'work' without kinect plugged in. For all we know it could refuse to start any games or only allow web browsing or something else ridiculous.

http://bgr.com/2013/08/13/microsoft-xbox-one-kinect-requirement/

Marc Whitten wrote:

..will still function if Kinect isn’t plugged in, although you won’t be able to use any feature or experience that explicitly uses the sensor.

kind of obvious on the latter part of that quote. but yeah, I think it should be fine to just use the system to play games on it or do other stuff that doesn't need Kinect. but we'll see I guess. it's still a bit ambiguous.