fauzman said:
Lol this^. Though having said that, he does seem to have changed his viewpoint on the Kinect a lot since he left MS. Of course so have xbox fans about Molyneux. Going on what he said though I doubt MS will drop Kinect. They have come too far and I think it is more likely they will just do a price drop. |
He was greatly enthusiastic about the tech back in 2010. Fast forward to 2014 and what have we really seen out of Kinect in terms of potential achieved and hype met?
I threw my hands in the air after Star Wars Kinect on the XB360, never looked back and never hooked up Kinect again.
Granted Kinect 1.0 was essentially a work in progress sold as a finished product, but now that developers have access to a significantly upgraded Kinect 2.0 we still really haven't seen anything new; certainly nothing that Kinect 1.0 didn't provide, namely "Xbox on" etc.
But I say give it time. It's still 4 months into the product cycle even though XB1 probably should have launched with a Kinect 2.0 killer app to differentiate it from the PS4 and justify the $100 premium.
For the record, I said Kinect 2.0 was the main feature of the XB1 that would make me buy another Xbox, but as of right now, not even remotely close.
MS should keep it in the main package though. Sure a $399 XB1 sitting next to a $399 PS4 would seem like a push when it comes to perceived consumer value, but the PS4 already has momentum going for it and more consumers would still buy the PS4 anyway. So MS is just going to have to speed up the effort to reduce the BoM on the XB1 package, or take a $50-100 hit off the current SKU and maybe offer a download code for a retail game or a year of XBL Gold, which is what quite a few retailers are already doing today (Titanfall bundle for $450 with a year of XBL Gold, etc.).
