"80% of people are using Kinect which is remarkable compared to the last generation." Not exactly a good number considering 100% of consoles have Kinect if 20% have Kinect and don't use it.
$349 without Kinect would be perfect. Cheaper hardware than PS4 should allow it to undercut Sony on price. Even $399 with Kinect would still feel like too much if Kinect doesn't interest you...still would be paying extra $50 for an unwanted accessory.
Probobly help as much as the included Kinect does. Guess there isn't enough commercial filled crap on the 100+ cable channels being put through the HDMI in port on the One without adding more. What I would rather see is them offering channels a la carte through live and get rid of the cable box entirely.
I think MS is already trying to make gamers like Kinect by making them buy one with the Xbone. Instead its making many dislike the console, and its price, and pushing them towards the other console that provides choice.
Not by costing $100 more with weaker hardware. Drop the worthless Kinect and offer the console at a reasonable $349 and maybe. But they better hurry or the user base of PS4 will be so much higher to be worthy of a higher price.
I would reason more people want a Blu-Ray drive than Kinect. No BR drive goes against the all-in-one idea behind the console. I don't understand why cutting Kinect is so difficult a decision. Is it better to have only 5 million consoles sold, all with Kinect; or 10 million consoles sold but only 5 million with Kinect? Kinect is like a dead wieght dragging an otherwise decent console down. If MS really wanted to go out on a limb and draw attention how about a system dropping both Kine...
No, they would need to drop the price $150 without Kinect. The console would be fairly and reasonably priced at $349 without Kinect considering the PS4 is $399 with more expensive RAM and GPU.
I remember a required online connection for the Xbone to function being one of the main complaints of the system reveal. Depending on the cloud creates just that, an online required console.
MS stubborn refusal to remove Kinect makes me think of a take on a quote from Don Mattrick... "If you don't like Kinect we have a console for you, called PS4."
yep, people should be happy to spend an extra $150 for the console to have Kinect included. Especially if your someone like myself that doesn't use Skype, or care to ever record game clips, or has no interest in motion gaming. Really makes a consumer feal like he's getting a deal.
I would buy it without Kinect. $350 would be a fair price for Xbone with Kinect being thrown in for free. The console should be $350 becuase relative to more powerful PS4 has cheaper memory and GPU.
How exactly were you going to buy an Xbone without Kinect? I don't know they ever offered one without it
yeh, probobly becuase MS designed it that way. develop a clunky dashboard that purposely makes using a controller harder to use than justify Kinect by showing how much easier it makes navigation.
If they new what they needed to do they would offer a Kinect-less sku for $349.
Maybe the included Kinect with every Xbone provides for something to make up for the lower resolution. Isn't that MS's theory, to allow developers to create a nex-gen and more immersive experience using Kinect and include it with every console to make it happen? Isn't that supposed to be the Xbone's trump card over PS4? I hope not, guess we'll have to tolerate 8-10 more years of articles revealing this.
Exactly, if MS wants to insist I own their unneeded accessory with their new console than they can throw it in for free. $349 with Kinect, or without, sounds about right. Am willing to buy the console, but not the Kinect if I'm forced to buy it as well. If certain aspects of the console are easier with Kinect its only becuase MS designed it that way, not becuase Kinect made a console function easier.
The more features the console has and the more it can do the better, backwards compatibility included. Its never to late to add features and capabilities. On a side note, wouldn't think it would be to hard to add backwards compatibility for original Xbox games. The original Xbox was x86 based as well and although its an old and irrelevant console now, would be a neat feature to brag about.
how exactly did nintendo pull the plug early on the gamecube? MS dumped the original Xbox in 2005 when the 360 came out, a full year before Nintendo came out with the Wii. If anything, the original Xbox would have done even better if it had another year of support
Why don't they just stop insisting everyone have Kinect and sell it at a reasonable $349. $449 is still $50 more than the competition for a weaker console. It may still come with Kinect but so what, Kinect only matters to people that want it. Its not required for the console to operate and unless you plan on buying Kinect games or using Skype completely unneccessary.
How about adding some profile customization beyond changing the generic gamerpics and tile colors, at least to the level you can on the 360.