A Bing search for "how I died picking my nose" also turns up pages of weird things, doesn't change the fact that it's exceptionally rare to die from picking your nose.
The data Microsoft receives from its real-world users is wonderfully consistent. Kinect sign-in works. I can also tell you that placement absolutely does matter, and lower is worse... but it doesn't change the stats significantly.
Let's not pretend this is an isolated issue only experienced by me or a select few. A google search yields 100's, if not 1000's of results. When reading the reddit or forum responses to those issues, about half of the respondents I saw are also experiencing similar problems. In addition, most of the podcasters on the gaming podcasts I listen to have had problems with Kinect never signing them in and consistently misunderstanding them, and have since given up on it all together. And out of my 4 friends that own an Xbox One w/Kinect, 2 have put it away/sold it and the other 2 rarely, if ever, use it due to the accessory not working consistently enough. Most Xbox One reviews back from 2013 also pointed out inconsistencies with the Kinect as well. Obviously I don't have any hard numbers or statistics. But usually where there's smoke, there's fire.
As for the data. So when I had to say 'Xbox Pause' 5 times while watching Sons of Anarchy last night before it finally understood me, would Microsoft track that as a 20% success rate? Or what about when it misunderstands half the things I say for 'Xbox Go to Music' somehow? Or when I walked into my living room once again just not to play Witcher 3, and my Microsoft failed to recognize me, causing me to do a manual sign in? Doesn't seem like something that can really be tracked. How would MS know when it doesn't recognize or understand someone?
And I understand that placement matters, as does background noise, as do many other things, such as the presence of windows, mirrors, paintings, glass coffee tables, etc. They all combine to make the Kinect a very inconsistent and pretty crappy experience for me and many others. It would be nice for the Kinect to work, but I'm not going to set my Kinect at the top of my entertainment console, right below my TV, where it looks ugly and the red glow and white light get distracting. That's not worth it to me.
I'm sure the Kinect works fine in certain environments, but it doesn't work good enough in many others, including my own. Even if it did, it would still play a very minor role in my Xbox experience. I'm fine with it as it is now, as an optional accessory. But it was completely asinine of Microsoft to bundle it with every console at launch, to pretend like it would be different with the games this time around, and to originally claim that the Kinect was an integral part of the Xbox experience for which the One could not work without.
So I go with google or where I work where I test them close to a hundred in a week? Also you want me to trust a site that cant give a real score on a game that comes out broken but yet it gives top scores?
Dont kid your self, if you dont like it i am fine but dont go saying statements like that because its faults. Can people have trouble setting up or dont know i can understand that, I set them up at my job for those who dont understand, but not broken or defect, its more like they dont know the commands.
See above. And discrediting a several podcasters' experience with the Kinect because their website gave good reviews to a couple of games that have unforseen online issues is idiotic. Many times, the games are reviewed under very controlled conditions before they launch. Just like Microsoft seemed to have developed and tested the Kinect.
I'm pretty tech savvy, if I don't know how to set something up, then I don't see how your average household will be able to. Shouldn't have to pay another $100 for someone to set a $100 voice remote up.
And it doesn't get much simpler than 'Xbox Pause' or 'Xbox Volume Up/Down'. Either it works or it doesn't. And in many cases for me, it doesn't work anywhere nearly enough for it to be useful.