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So The Xbox One Reveal Screwed With Some People's Kinects

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In preparing the big reveal for the next Xbox, it seems Microsoft forgot all about how the current one works, because reports from Twitter show that a lot of people ran into problems today when they tried to watch the show on their Xbox 360.

It seems that for some folks, every time an executive said something like "Xbox" or "Xbox Live", those with a Kinect experienced issues like having the stream paused or being kicked out of it altogether, because they're the same terms the peripheral uses for its voice commands.

Some examples:

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Xbox 360’s Kinect causes trouble for users during next-gen livestream reveal [Polygon]