It's not been a great week for Microsoft. Pulling Kinect from the Xbox One was seen as the final u-turn for a games consoles that's been chasing its own tail almost since it was first revealed.

We know games players, fanboys and the press were happy to take a dig at another climb-down from the Xbox corporation, but you'd expect a little more solidarity from games developers. Wouldn't you?

George Broussard (Duke Nukem) got straight to the point.

Kinect has always been a piece of s**t. I'm surprised and encouraged Microsoft will sell a One without it. Good move. Faith increased.

— George Broussard (@georgeb3dr) May 13, 2014

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Rami Ismail (Ridiculous fishing, Luftrausers) went for the burn...

Todays Xbox One news just makes me think of the sound & the little bow the old Kinect made during shutdown.

— Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) May 13, 2014

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But he did make a good point about indie development.

Anyway, Microsoft, if you're taking more cues from Sony's playbook, maybe get to the page where Sony doesn't have default launch parity.

— Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) May 13, 2014

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We're not entirely sure what point David Jaffe (Twisted Metal, God of War) was making, or whether a 13 year-old fanboy had taken over his account briefly.

Fuuuck- 399w/no Kinect? Now it's a fuckin war (stupid analogy but there it is). Get Ninty to drop the pad and the price and s**t=REALS:)!

— davidscottjaffe (@davidscottjaffe) May 13, 2014

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Ben Cousins (Battlefield F2P, The Drowning, ) offered some smug historical insight.

I was at working at Sony when they/we said no to the Kinect tech. The reason? Too expensive. It's taken MS a long time to figure this out

— Ben Cousins (@BenjaminCousins) May 13, 2014

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Dan Marshall (Time, Gentlemen Please!) injected a little British humour.

Good work, everyone. Now let's REALLY mess around with them and demand they make Kinect mandatory again #BringBackKinect #Kinect4Life

— Dan Marshall (@danthat) May 13, 2014

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While Devolver Digital's fictional CFO Fork Parker was only thinking of the children...

Without a Kinect all these kids are going to get fat.

— Fork Parker (@ForkParker) May 13, 2014

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...he may have also hit the nail on the head.

Hey, maybe people don't want motion controls.

— Fork Parker (@ForkParker) May 14, 2014

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Dropping Kinect wasn't a surprise to some people blessed with foresight, as noted by Ed Boon (Mortal Kombat).

I believe I heard @michaelpachter predict this a while back... #HeToldUsSo http://t.co/u20fFNxlbr

— Ed Boon (@noobde) May 13, 2014

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And after all this, what does Kudo Tsunoda, creative director of the original Kinect 1.0 think? Oh, that's right, he's not been very active for a while… maybe he's still playing those games?

i finally got home. Been on the road for weeks. Catching up on video game playing.

— Kudo Tsunoda (@KudoTsunoda) June 11, 2009

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