pokoko said:
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. |
IMO the smart thing to do, would be to do the exact same thing they did this gen. They should have:
-Released the console at $350 to undercut the PS4.
-Spent none of their time worrying about Kinect so they can hopefully launch a full month or two ahead of the PS4.
-Work on Kinect 2.0 once the console is out and wait for the price to drop to $200.
-Once they have a $200 SKU they could bundle Kinect with the console for $300 once again and breath new life into the console as casuals buy it.
Kinect was a great way to hold off the PS3 for another year and keep sales up. But now it has become an anchor holding sales down. People do realize no casuals would have bought the Wii at $500 right?
