Why MS is keeping Kinect and didn't sell it for $350 - $400

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ironmanDX said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
In short, they know the Kinect 2.0 wont sell if its sold separately.

That is just garbage. Kinect is around 25 million in sales, MS have the knowledge, experience and resources to back that up and sell Kinect 2 just as well.

Though I think Kinect 2.0 would sell, and perhaps sell moderately well, I don't think we'd see anything like the jump we had with the original Kinect.  After all, those sales fell off a cliff after several months.  As with the Wii, part of the user base were casuals who probably wouldn't return for round 2.

Relative to that, if Microsoft sold the XO without Kinect 2.0, we'd see the same thing that happened with the Kinect after the boom was over, which was that developers started ignoring it.  Microsoft also wants everything to be "better with Kinect," so they're making sure developers won't feel that adding Kinect features is a waste of time.  The only way to do that is to bake it into the base product itself.  Really, they're probably doing the smart thing for the long run, otherwise they'd have a split user base and they'd be the only ones bothering to fund Kinect projects.