'Forced Camera Anti-Consumer' Says Sony

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arcelonious said:

Kinect is included with every Xbox One because it is one of the primary elements that Microsoft is using to set its console apart from the rest. Without it, many of their talking points would be lost, like Skype, television voice commands, voice/motion integration into the UI, and so on. Of course, many gamers don't care about voice commands, motion control, or Skype, but Microsoft sees potential in attracting the people that do, and is gambling on that with the increased price of having Kinect in each box.

At the same time, games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Wii Fit, and so on, have shown that people will buy accessories for software, so I wouldn't count Sony's optional approach out either. Additionally, if a multiplatform game that utilizes motion control is easy to port between the Xbox One and PS4, then developers may still support motion control games on the PS4, even if it has a smaller install base for the Eye and Move.

With that said, the anti-consumer remark in the headline was obviously trying to sensationalize what wasn't really a controversial article.

At best the kinect is a great hands free multimedia controller and an  on rails/dancing game piece of tech. Its existence much like they eyetoy is purely secondary and ms lied to you and admitted it is not needed as a primary for the xbox one to function. They force bundled it to get a quick profit regardless of whether the consuñer base is for or against it.