Yet again Microsoft have lied to us.

Source:https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=Q9XPU6vgLbfMsQSMs4DICw&url=http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/13/xbox-one-price-interview/&cd=2&ved=0CCIQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNETXb3QXtb0D3Y_ndpGob5nI_uBJg&sig2=G7lCyzsRUiiHI9un88ggyA

A quote to clarify the lying. When asked about if kinectless was offered as a way to boost sales:

"For us, it has not really been about that," he told us in a brief interview this afternoon. First, it's about that aforementioned choice. Second, the folks at Xbox feel as though, at this point, they've completed their goal of "defining a next-generation console." As such, moving on makes sense (to Microsoft, anyway)."

And going by NPD sales from May to June rose from 77k to 197k. Even with all considerations it's clear that kinectless X1 have boosted sales, so why did you lie Ms?

Anyway congratulations on enhancing the sales and if it wasn't clear this is a congratulations post with a tackle on the ever so frequent complaint that ms PR lie about everything.

I don't see how they're lying here

Well, they're lying because if they wanted to give choice they'd have given it from the start. Obviously it was just for sales and PR, nothing more.
But then it's hardly a big deal, it's not exactly a lie about something in the future that turns out untrue (like Kinect being integral) and thus is not really "deceiving", or at least not in a way that matters to us.

Another quote from the very same article, which pretty much says they gave that Kinect-less option to increase the rate at which 360 owners buy the One, so in other words to boost sales:

"We have 80-plus million Xbox 360 users today who want an Xbox One, and many of them tell us, 'For me, it's an affordability issue. I'm gonna get there, it's just a question of time. If you make it more affordable, then I'll upgrade faster.' So this is an opportunity to really make it easier for them to get there at their pace."

DonFerrari lied to us, he misrepresented his source to make his thread more controversial so I'm locking this.

It's not a big deal, PR never is, but I certainly do believe that it's a lie. Does anyone really believe that it's about "choice"? That it would have happened had the XO come out the gates in first place? No way.