| iceland said: Isn't that reversing their original vision though? I don't really how they can win either way... MS: XBO will never come without Kinect Gamers: STOP FORCING THAT POS ON US!! MS: You can now buy the Xbox One without the Kinect Gamers: OMG YOU LIARS!! It all just seems really pointless to me... Shit changes, I don't really see the big issue here they're changing to appeal to more consumers. |
I will not applaud MS for doing what they should have done in the first place and I think its sad that some gamers wanna act like what they did to begin with was ok.
MS announced a console with "integrated kinect" and a heavy focus on TV and general media integration. In addition to this they announced an always online OS whose real primary use ws to monetize used game sales. Take note I said announced not released.
Consumers were unhappy about everything I just mentioned and started complaining. First, they ignored consumers and tried every way possible to justify what they were trying to do, even though it was clearly obvious that it wasn't what consumers wanted. Then after the first pre-order details started coming in and MS could see that at that early stage consumers were talking with their money and going with PS4. They started the 180s.
But what was really bad, is that even at that stage consumers were screaming for a kinectless SKU, months before the XB1 released and MS clearly on separate occasions said the XB1 CANNOT work without kinect. They also said that kinect was integral to the XB1 design and how the XB1 will NEVER be sold without kinect. And now here we are.
I don't think anyone is saying MS is wrong for giving people what they want, what is bad here is that people made MS know this isn't what they wanted before the XB1 even released. So MS is wrong for doing what they tried to do and what the even did to begin with.
