Fable III Kinect Support Scrapped… For Now

After listening to the Peter Molyneux interview on the latest Engadget Show, Joystiq has learned that Fable III won’t ship with any support for Kinect as we were previously led to believe. Lionhead isn’t ruling out future functionality, though:

Lionhead boss and Microsoft Game Studios Europe director Peter Molyneux has revealed on the Engadget Show that Fable 3 will not ship with any Kinect functionality, despite past confirmations to the contrary. Joystiq spoke with Molyneux following his appearance on the show and learned that some form of Kinect content may be available post-launch, and that whatever was initially planned to be built into the game just wasn’t up to snuff.

This is good news to me. If I end up having to get the Xbox 360 version (if the PC version is, indeed, delayed), I don’t want to be waving my arms around to perform tasks that could just be performed with a simple button mash.