Don't bank on Kinect games in 2017

[Joystiq]

"The problem is not that nobody has Kinect, but it's that nobody is talking about it anymore."

That's Mattia Traverso, the creator of Kinect-exclusive game

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. Traverso has a unique perspective on the Kinect marketplace because he's one of the last video-game developers to build an experience specifically for Microsoft's motion-sensing peripheral.

Not that the Kinect is officially dead. However, Kinect is clearly not a priority for Microsoft. In 2016, the Xbox One's Kinect 2 received just two games from third-party studios, Fru and Just Dance 2017. Microsoft hasn't released a motion-sensing game itself since 2014, the same year the company announced it would start selling the

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bundled in the box. Support for the peripheral has disappeared over the past three years, and with it, so has public attention.

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