Xbox One To Release In Kinect-Less Bundle in 2014 - Rumor

[Zappykins]

Xenostar said:

Zappykins said:
No no no! This will ruin the Xbox One.

I hope it is not true.

How on earth would a $150 price cut from a periperal 90% of early adopters dont want ruin anything. 

Because without Kinect it's just a fancy game/media machine.  It would lose the amazing innovation that separates it from everything else in the market.  The thing that will propels us further into the future, and lead us closer to computers that we only see in Science Fiction stories.

I live with a Kinect now, and I would hate going backwards.  I feel like I'm back in the dark ages when I need to put my laptop on the TV for the one or two things I can't get on Hulu+.  Or if I go to a friends and they want me to find a movie while they are making popcorn.  I can't say, "Roku, Bing, The Mouse that Roared" and have it pull up the movie and tell me where I can watch it.  You have to flip through every single app to find what, where and how much.  It's like in a library, going back to rows and rows of card catalogs when you are use on massive online data search.

It would be like making online news papers illegal - so you could only buy the entire paper to read a single article - and all other papers.  Or have a smart phone, but all apps are illegal - including maps and directions.  Or making tablets without a touch screen and you have a little square like on some laptops.  Why would anyone want to stifle innovation?

The people that don't want it just don't know any better.  A few are tin foil hat die hards against it, and I think we just have to leave them behind.  They can't see the future, but they shouldn't be allowed to hold the rest of us back that can.  Not making Kinect Mandatory would stifle innovation, creativity, and convenience.