As for any plans to bring back the item in the future, the representative declined to discuss Microsofts product roadmap, but said the adapter will no longer be available.

The writing was on the wall in 2016, when Microsoft launched the Xbox One S without the proprietary port necessary to hook up the Kinect directly to the console.

The company shut down that promotion in March 2017, and did not bring back the offer when it launched the Xbox One X last November.

When Microsoft confirmed the end of the deal to Polygon in April 2017, it noted that the adapter is available for purchase for 39.99.

In fact, if you search for Kinect on the Microsoft Store website, the adapter doesnt even show up in the results anymore; we were only able to access the sold-out product listing from an old link.

Third-party sellers on Amazon are charging about 300 for a new item 7.5 times the retail price of the accessory, and more than the cost of an Xbox One S while used adapters on eBay have gone for hundreds of dollars in recent weeks.

This has produced a rash of one-star reviews on the Kinect Adapters out-of-stock Microsoft Store listing, with customers raging in disbelief that they have to buy the device in the first place and in frustration that they cant do so at a reasonable cost.

This is perhaps why Microsoft re-released some first-party Kinect titles with traditional controls added, including Disneyland Adventures, Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure and Zoo Tycoon, for the Xbox One X launch.

The Xbox One dashboard hasnt supported Kinect-based gesture controls since November 2015.

And a Microsoft rep noted to Polygon today that the company added support for USB webcams to the Xbox One last October, enabling those cameras to be used for features such as Mixer livestreaming and Skype video chat.

At the time, the company said in a statement to Polygon that it is not the end of the journey for the technology because, in part, Kinect continues to delight tens of millions of Xbox owners.

Today, however, Microsoft has fully closed the door to the possibility of new Kinect users.

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