Kinect

Penfold99 · 5 Jan 2011 at 07:59

Do you need a adapter to play it on older Xbox? Or will it go into USB ?

Thanks

Ind3h! · 5 Jan 2011 at 08:08

No it goes into a USB port and has it's own power source.

Penfold99 · 5 Jan 2011 at 08:21

Ah cool thanks

finite · 5 Jan 2011 at 09:26

I can see the need for convenience, but to buy a 360S with no intention of 'Kinecting' it leaves the PSU slightly more inefficient sans the 12W load than if they'd maintained a separate PSU for both.

TheVoice · 5 Jan 2011 at 09:37

finite said:
I can see the need for convenience, but to buy a 360S with no intention of 'Kinecting' it leaves the PSU slightly more inefficient sans the 12W load than if they'd maintained a separate PSU for both.

I can't imagine it makes any difference. The 360S uses less power anyway.

finite · 5 Jan 2011 at 09:58

It almost certainly would make some difference. Yes the 360S uses less, but it doesn't seem quite as good as it should do, it also has more USB ports iirc which is more potential unused overhead for the PSU. I can't imagine MS supplying an ultra efficient PSU.

TheVoice · 5 Jan 2011 at 10:19

The PSU is only going to use as much power as it needs to, having unused USB ports etc isn't going to matter.

finite · 5 Jan 2011 at 10:58

Yes, but if you had the efficiency graph for the PSU you would see a difference between input and output at various loadings.

AHarvey · 5 Jan 2011 at 11:32

who cares? the difference would be minimal anyway.

TheVoice · 5 Jan 2011 at 11:36

It's safe to say people would prefer to have one cable and one PSU, than even worry about a tiny difference in efficiency, if there is one at all.

finite · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:06

Well yes I already said that in the opening of my first post. Of course there will be a difference and over the lifetime use it all adds up, but as AHarvey says I'm in the minority here.

TheVoice · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:45

Over the course of a few years, it isn't going to have any sort of meaningful cost impact at all. There are far more significant things to worry about if reducing energy consumption is on your mind.

finite · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:03

Well I think we'll just have to agree to disagree there.

CSA · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:33

I just received our new 250 S and kinect today,spent a while setting kinect up,one thing im dissapointed in is the lack of voice control while playing media files like saying "xbox pause" to pause a film

i was under the impression you could control nearly everything via kinect,but i cant even use it to navigate to the normal xbox menue blades,i can only use it in the kinect hub ?

jayextreme · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:41

will order my kinect when the right game comes, nice technology but no epic games yet

Nismo · 5 Jan 2011 at 17:58

CSA said:
i was under the impression you could control nearly everything via kinect,but i cant even use it to navigate to the normal xbox menue blades,i can only use it in the kinect hub ?

That's the whole point of the hub, it's the Kinect version of the dash (albeit a lot more limited).

Zowghi · 5 Jan 2011 at 19:11

Can you connect the kinect to an old 360? My sister has one and when i looked at the connection it didnt look like a USB. It had connector pins on both the top and bottom unlike USB

djkav · 5 Jan 2011 at 19:37

You need to get the stand alone Kinect for the older Xbox. The stand alone version comes with the required usb adaptor for the older Xbox. The Kinect that comes with the Xbox-S doesn't have the adaptor. Thus won't work with the older Xbox.

Maybe you can get the adaptor seperately sometime in the future.

Nodiggidy123 · 5 Jan 2011 at 19:53

so theres 2 versions of kinnect? one for old xbox360 and one for new?

Zowghi · 5 Jan 2011 at 20:20

That seems to be the case so make sure you are careful when buying