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S.T.A.G.E. on 03 January 2014
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vivster said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
vivster said:
I never understood why a massive price drop for the X1 is so hard of a possibility? I mean MS has a lot more cash than Sony to sell the console for a loss. I wouldn't be surprised if it got cut a 100$ without dropping the kinect in the near future. Especially when Microsoft sees how far they are behind by the end of Spring.


Microsoft doesn't like to be behind Sony. They came into the industry to throw Sony off their hinges, not to take risks in truly taking over the living room. They'll throw out the Kinect if worse comes to worse to get back into the fight with Sony. Look what they did in Europe once they heard about Sony's preorders. They gave everyone of the day one Xbox One owners free Fifa 14. If you haven't noticed how Microsoft has been reacting to everything Sony does since February 2013 you've been ignoring a couple things. What Sony does matters. If it wasn't for Sony most Xbox owners would have to accept that they had to play a DRM locked console.

Are you sure you meant to reply to me? Because I agree with everything you said.

I'm just asking why everyone is saying that they need to drop kinect to drop the price. If cornered by Sony I think they are very well capable of dropping the price by $100 without sacrificing kinect for it.


Microsoft lied about the Xbox not being able to work without the Kinect in the first place. Microsoft then admitted it wasn't true and said the Kinect is still essential so they still bundled it. This confused gaming reporters (seriously, you can look this up). Soon after everyone finds out the Kinect works but still wasn't essential enough to bundled. Microsoft didn't need to force that upon consumers. I think they are just trying to profit on the hardware and then they'll drop it. They don't trust consumers to willingly accept the second iteration od the Kinect so they are creating artificial demand. America is their home turf and if the Xbox One drops in price it will sell like hot cakes. The Xbox One hardware will not profit faster than the Kinect will. They will drop the Kinect. They will have to if staying in the race with Sony is important to them and from their actions thats definitely the case.