Remember the Xbox Strategy leak? Its coming true - See the future

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MoHasanie said:
Wow, that is some extremely impressive planning by Microsoft. Its kinda scary how some of the things in these slides came true. I wish they'd shown us some of that illumiroom stuff at the reveal cause that looks amazing.
Also, a $299 price for Xbox One would actually be VERY good and could hurt the PS4 if the PS4 costs $100+ more. hmm, even though I'm currently favoring the PS4, if the Xbox One is $100 cheaper then I may actually start siding with the Xbox One again (provided the exclusives look great).

I'm not clear if that $299 goal doesn't include that 2 year subsiding.  If it really was only $299, then I think the Xbox One would outsell the Wii's launch!  That would mean it's only my double my $149 launch Kinect from 2010.

In all fairness, they say the cost of hardware in the original Kinect was calculated about $50 in 2010 - I'm sure it would be lower now.  And Microsoft has said, they were subsidizing it at that level.  Which is why the SDK for Kincet for Windows was $250.  There has been a massive investment in research regarding the ‘Natural User Interface’ aka NUI, so who knows how much went into Kinect.  And how much went to the licensing to use the 3D camera.

I think the rumor is the new Kinect ”Time of Flight’s” 3D capture is all Microsoft’s.

It does sound to good to be true, even for a good Friday deal.  But so many other things have come true…