Phil Harrison: Xbox One Will Never Come Without Kinect

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Machiavellian said:

KylieDog said:
Microsoft's loss.

Will be a lot of people who look at XBone and say "I don't want Kinect, why do I need pay for it" and go for PS4 instead..

Doesn't that goes both ways.  IF games, features and services show a clear advantage with Kinect, then people would purchase X1 just for Kinect.  At this point nothing is set in stone.  No one really knows how kinect will change the experience of the X1 to separate it from the PS4.  New gen, new scenerios.  Companies have to take some risk as being safe means you are a step behind if something takes off.  MS had enough years to make Kinect a much better product, now they just need to deliever.

Let's keep this simple.

Roughly 78 million Xbox360s sold -

Roughly 25 million Kinects sold =

53 million xbox customers who either aren't interested in Kinect or just plain out don't want it.

 

Also. Do you really think 3rd party developers are going to spend time and money on adding Kinect features in when they can just make an identical game to the PS4 version? Most of a console's games come from 3rd parties so I don't know how it will be "splitting the userbase" having a Kinectless SKU when most of the 3rd party games won't be utilising it.