PS4 estimated to sell 17 million & XB1 10 million by the end of 2014

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Aura7541 said:

GribbleGrunger said:

Aura7541 said:

GribbleGrunger said:
I'd previously gone for an outrageous punt and said over 20 million for the PS4, but I'll give a more realistic estimation here:

PS4: 18.5m
XB1: 12m

Prediction for the X1 is too optimistic in my opinion. Its sales supposedly fell off a cliff in April and due to lacking games until the holidays, the X1 is going to have a brutal summer as BenV said.

I'm betting on a Kinectless bundle around Christmas.

Ahh, I see.  A Kinectless bundle is very possible though I feel that MS is still too stubborn to admit its lack of practicality. Also, much of the functionality of the X1 is dependent on the Kinect so MS needs to release a major update in order to fix that.

I am a bit ignorant about the excat functionality of the Kinect and a little confused about what functionality is handled by the microphone (audio recognition) or the Kinect. Could you enlighten me about what exactly will be missing without the Kinect?