The Xbox One: A Lying Failure Machine

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BMaker11 said:

sales2099 said:

Cutting the PR crap, they are merely part of a hierarchy and it was their job to stay behind their product and what it stood for at the time. Until authorized otherwise, they shouldn't have been allowed to raise doubt about their business model.

"can't flip a switch" = It will take some time but it can be done. Hey, even one week is more time then "flipping a switch". I'm sure MS had many working long hours to remedy that asap

"the console was built around it" = Technically that isn't a lie. MS still believes the console is at it's best with Kinect attached, espcially when voice commanding your TV/media.

"Xbox One is Kinect. They aren't separate systems" = They wanted solidarity in their SKU lineup and not seperate userbases like 360 kinect did.

The quotes are more about their vision then physical hardware limitations. You just have to brush up on PR speak to get the real message.

#1 Taking a week is more time that "flipping a switch", but in the grand scheme of things, it was something that could quickly be done

#2 The console was built around it has to do with DRM, not Kinect.

#3 No, he said it was a part of the platform ecosystem, like blu ray, ram, and CPU. The parts that "make up" the Xbox One. There is no "separate" SKU, if you released an XBone with RAM and one without, because the latter wouldn't work. That's the impression he was trying to give off with "Xbox One is Kinect"; that each part was essential to make the console function. And without it, it wouldn't function. Why else would he compare Kinect to RAM and Blu Ray?

Well 1 and 2 can't argue, but #3, it again comes down to them personally weighing Kinect as important as bluray or RAM. To them, kinect was that essential as the rest to the X1. Doesn't mean it couldn't be removed. To them at the time, it was 100% essential for the console to function, from a business standpoint.

360 kinect was an option and they had to ram home that this kinect won't be like that. Again, PR is designed to be vague and tell half-truths. They technically aren't wrong if you look at it a certain way.