Polygon: Microsoft needs to admit the Xbox One Kinect is a peripheral, not a pack-in

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Too_Talls said:

ethomaz said:
In my opinion the only think that differentiates Xbone is Kinect... if you removes it then it will loose in every single aspect to PS4... so it will became a non buy machine.

MS needs price cuts and games... I think the Kinect-less SKU a terrible idea.

Now some user experience with the UI... it doesn't works well without Kinect... it is a mess to navigate using controller on Xbone.... the UI was designed to works with Kinect... so if they choose to go with non-Kinect SKU they will need to make drastic changes in the UI.

This makes sense only for new gamers wondering what side to pick. It's true if you take away the kinect the x1 esentially on the suurface becomes a weaker PS4. 

But I think very few people who bought an xbox one bought it because of kinnect. All that was, was a tool used to kill arguments on why we spent more money..

But the real reason people went with MS was for more ecential aspects to gaming such as

*controller preference

*trust in the online survice 

* ties to the comunity

*years of MS investment

*Titan Fall......ah I mean games.

If anything getting an X1 with the 100 dollar pac in expressed some serious loyalty.

 

With all of that asside kinnect boils down to a wii emulaating gimmick aimed at generating a large amount of non gamer sales. It's aimed at the casuals who I think for the most part are done with the gaming scene after the original wii.

So in the end 100 is a lot of extra cash and what I think it did was drive away a lot of potential buyers. looking at the US market alone were the 360 dominated, the x1 is loosing now why? The pice tag is the main reason I can think of.

 

Have to agree on all counts.