Uh how about because that additional gimmicky feature didn't add a 20% price hike to the product? You know like the kinect did? If bluetooth cost $100 of the phone and I knew it cost $100 of the phone you can damn well assume a lot of consumers would be bitching that there should be a bluetoothless iphone for those who don't value it.
But instead it adds cents to the BOM of the phone
I kind of get that, but that phone is still $500-700 without a 2 year contract that basically means it's almost double that. XBL/PS+ is just ~$50 for a full year of service, so there are differences. But there are a LOT of stupid features we eat up and not complain, features that sometimes seem like the only thing added to that years revision still most buy it. I am saying most because I don't do that and many don't do that, yet many of those people complain about paying $100 more for an 5 year minumum investment.
Still why is it acceptable there, but here in gaming we basically rage over it, don;t even try it and write it off, like you did, as a gimmick. I am not saying this will be the most revolutionary peripheral yet, but even at one point the joystick on the N64 controller was a gimmick that most games passed over at the beginning, it later revolutionized gaming. Sure sure MS is never going to be Nintendo, but at least give the chance.
I have the X1 and love Kinect. It is no gimmick to me, it is a legit way to work the UI and improve it. Setting up the X1 and getting to use it was part of the most fun thing i did with the console and the thing that mostly screamed to me " wow this feels new!". I love my PS4, but it still feels like PC/2 or PS3.9
It is entirely ridiculous that the only way to have automatic login on the XB1 is via kinect.
Seriously all you have to do is add a simple system command that allows users to select a specific account to login on startup. That's it. The 360, PS3, and PS4 has it. Why can't the XB1 have it too?
It is not the only way, only that the "manual" way take too long or is in another alternate way. You are complaining that Kinect, without you having to press anything at all, recognizes you and log you in. It is similar to what you ask, which I see no problem in having or adding later( and it WILL be added), but it is better. He is how my day goes: I come home from work, go into my apt, Xbox On, do stuff, stand in front, logs in, do stuff, Xbox do..., do stuff, xbox ... All this before even sitting down and turning on the controller. Are you really trying to tell this is horrible or way worse sitting down and waiting for it. Sure it saves me minutes, maybe just seconds, but It feels great, it feels new, it feels like the future to me. I just can;t see why you and other see it as bad and then only offer wha tI see as dumb arguments against it. One extra button press, give the choice to make it more cumbersome.