Why remove kinect now? Shipments

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Max King of the Wild said:

whatever said:
Why now? Just wait for April NPD to reveal the answer.

Sure, that is probably a factor but this move would still require planing for a while and I don't think it would have been enough time for it to have been reactory decision based on April

It seems pretty obvious that this was planned to be an E3 announcement.  My guess is that April NPD was so bad that they decided not to wait to announce it just to deflect some of the bad press.