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hollabackenny on 02 February 2014
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SvennoJ said:
hollabackenny said:
Subie_Greg said:
Regardless of when, gamers would have quickly figured out it was a worthless gimmick and adds nothing to their gaming experience.


Maybe so, but that didn't stop the original Kinect from selling 20+ million. It would still attract people because of the 'cool' factor. I doubt the effects of the gimmick would wear off after 2 months. 

It would be a lot slower though. The original Kinect also had the add-on option and cheap 4gb arcade bundle option. With a new supply constrained $500 console the hype would have died down long before 20 million sales. It was also the perfect time to jump in to motion controls right after the Wii reached it's peak.

But yes it would have been a selling point for the XBox One instead of having negative connotations of motion controls in general.

You brought up a lot of good points in your previous post, there are a lot of variables to the scenario of course. I don't think the One would be selling nearly as fast as the Kinect did, I just think it would help keep the systems neck in neck for at least the first year. There probably wouldn't be talks of a price cut so soon either. 

Granted, things might also be completely different if they didn't blow the reveal so badly.