[just_myles]

I don't know. Seems to me that there is some good technology in there. I think what hurt it ultimately, and forgive me if I am repeating this but, the launch of the xbox one x with the kinect seems to have hurt it more. As I recall there was controversy over "always on" to receive commands from the users that rub the community the wrong way.

[kohtatsu]

Honestly Microsoft is creepy as hell the past two years. Similarly as bad as Google/Facebook imo, and they're bald-faced about it.

For those who don't know; the One's kinect mic is always on by default, and says hello to you if it detects (what it thinks is) your voice recognition. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted the camera on full-time too!

I think the whole thing is tone-deaf, like the windows 10 privacy settings charade.

[ck425]

That's the exact reason I will never have an Alexa, Google Home or any equivalent in my home. I was a massive xbox fan and that made it an automatic no go for me.

[brian-armstrong]

The "always on" thing was especially bad. They announced that around the same time as them forbidding used game sales and it created some pretty intensely negative reactions.