Why remove kinect now? Shipments

[Dark_Feanor]

whatever said:

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.

A move like that is not based on a month worth data. Not even on those first quarters numbers, that were reseanable good.

MS decided based on their sales projection for the rest of the year.

PS: April NPD won´t be that bad for Microsoft, nor that good for Sony.