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

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Sevengen said:
I think it shows a real lack of forward thinking when people keep referring to Xbox One's Kinect as a peripheral.
It isn't.
It's an alternative controller that Microsoft decided to build there system around, something, as other posters have already stated, helps define the Xbox One and separate it from it's competitors.
For the most part, it seems the only people complaining about it are the anti-Microsoft crowd, devoted PS4 fans with a bashing agenda, and gamers that can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that it's not a peripheral and use its inclusion as a way to bitch about price.
While the PS4 is inarguably more powerful on the stat sheet and has seen that difference parlayed into countless threads about better resolutions and frame rates, the Xbox One, as is, can do things the PS4 simply can't.
I'm more than willing to sacrifice a mere 180 lines of pixels and a few dozen frames per second, both technical specs that are negligible when the differences of measurement or so small, for a console that gives me advantages and user experiences the others don't have.
The PS4 is the more powerful, less expensive machine; the Xbox One is the more interesting and forward thinking alternative.
Price or innovation?
Innovation always wins in the long run.. would you be reading this on your tablet or smartphone if it didn't?

Even though I prefer Sony games I am not anti MS and I don't feel that they should have packed the Kinect in with the system. It is cool for turning your game on and  stuff. And using it as a mic but CURRENTLY by adding it in and uping the price it is hurting MS with the sales of the system. I always hear that the XB1 is more innovative but I always ask what makes it SO MUCH more innovative than the PS4? Like what can it do that the PS4 can't? Albeit I know some things like snap and stuff but those are kind of minor in the bigger picture.

Or what will it be able to do in the future that the PS4 won't? I have neither system yet and won't have either for at least another year. But I have played both machines quite a bit. And for what the XB1 currently offers paying $100 dollars more just is not worth it to me. At the moment that is anyway... now later on down the line that could change but as of right now if one were to go and look at the PS4 and the XB1 the console differences are minor at best but the PRICE difference(thanks to kinect) is the factor that is swaying people...just my thoughts.