Microsoft confirmed back in late October that all Xbox One games would be backwards compatible with the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S at launch, aside from games that required the Kinect peripheral.
We've had some questions about this though, such as whether you can use the official Xbox One Kinect Adapter to play these games, or indeed whether they'll boot at all. Well, here's your answer.
As you can see, you can't even load these games on Xbox Series X|S, so there's unfortunately no chance of running them on the new consoles - you'll have to stick to Xbox One if you really want to play them.
Of course, for games where Kinect was an option alongside a traditional control method, you shouldn't face any issues. But for others, such as Rare's Kinect Sports Rivals, you'll be out of luck trying to play them on Xbox Series X|S.
Are you going miss the Kinect? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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It saddens me that Kinect is being consigned to the scrapheap of gaming history like this. It had some good games!
I suppose it's for the same reason that Nintendo didn't give us any Virtual Boy on 3DS virtual console. They'd rather people forgot it ever existed.
Good. Let Kinect die now.
Is Xbox ever got vr I wonder if Kinect games would work for that
@AJDarkstar that would have been amazing. As big a missed opportunity as a 3DS player for the Wii U.
Kinect was a clever piece of hardware.
I did not have any actual “Kinect” games, and did not really have a lot of room, and with motion control you the need space to move around.
But being able to control the Xbox One with my voice, that was cool. I enjoyed that. Now it seems that almost everything else is voice-activated, except for the xbox.
I use to have PSVR, on the PS4, but only ever used it to play movies in 3D
Is it even possible to connect (no pun intended) a Kinect sensor to the Series X? Probably not.!
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