BMaker11 said:
Read the thread. Nobody in here (that agrees with the video) is disagreeing with this. Sterling (guy in the video) isn't even disagreeing with this. What they're taking issue is that MS hiding behind the guise of "choice" and "listening to the consumer" when in actuality, it was capitulation to the circumstances. They're not owning up to their mistakes. They're not saying "we screwed up", they're saying "we're giving you options now". You better believe that if the XBone was at 8.6M and PS4 was at 4.9M, Kinect would still be bundled, despite it obviously not "being integral to Xbox One" like the motherboard, chips, ram, power cable, etc. are, as MS claimed. "If it sold that much, people 'want' Kinect", sounds like a good potential rebuttal, but that would mean that MS doesn't care about "giving consumers options" when the machine obviously works without the peripheral, but still force a bundle. |
Offcourse I believe that whoever is #1 can and will be lazy and more self serving. You'll see some of that in the coming years ;)
But my point is that one and the other go hand in hand. The capitulation of circumstances forced them to listen and give options. Layoffs = we screwed up. You don't need a PR statement to tell you that.