Why didn't MS leave the pricecut and app announcement for their E3 conference?

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DerNebel said:

Serious question. Would have been a pretty big crowd pleaser and I don't think anyone can tell me that they couldn't find the 5 minutes to fit that announcement in their conference.

The only thing I can imagine is that they want to lower the amount of people that buy a PS4 instead of an X1 because of the price difference in the next couple weeks, since I'd say most people are more willing to wait 3 weeks than an indefinite amount of time, but I'd say that number would easily be countered by the number of people that were going to buy a X1 at $500 and are now waiting a couple more weeks to get it at $400 instead.

So...why?

Because to the majority of the Xbox One gaming community dropping the Kinect is about the worst decision ever.   Sure it would have been met with a few cheers at E3.  But moreso, it would have been meet with boos and screams to get rid of Phil.

People the bought into the vision of Xbox One and early adoptors are not happy at all.

I don't see the point of getting and Xbox One without Kinect.  I'd just stay on PC and get a controller.  Kinect was this gen's innovation.  I'm not sure what it is now.

The last thing they want is people yelling and throwing things at E3.  Which is exactly what this disaster would have cause to happen.