The Xbox One: A Lying Failure Machine

[Landguy]

BMaker11 said:

sales2099 said:

BMaker11 said:

#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.

But that doesn't make any sense. They are all "just as essential", but remove blu ray and the Xbone literally wouldn't work. Remove RAM and the Xbone literally wouldn't work. Remove the CPU and the Xbone literally wouldn't work. Remove Kinect and....the Xbone is just fine. But he wanted to leave the impression that it literally wouldn't work, because it was "as essential as" everything else.

"From a business standpoint" is not a factor in what "as essential as" means in the context Harrison was speaking in (i.e. why Kinect cannot be removed). Reading it any other way is spin because a "business standpoint" has nothing to do with physical functionality, like memory, blu ray, and (what Phil wanted us to believe) Kinect does for the console.

I disagree.

 

If all of the people claiming that they lied would step back and look at where they were when they said that, it was not a lie.  To do what  they wanted the XB1 to do, they needed DRM and Kinect, it was required.  The original plan for the XB1 was not to be an Xbox720 or PS4.  They were hoping to go to another kind of experience and set of capabilities.  Obviously the market said NO,NO,NO,NO!   So they took the bones of the system and went back to the Xbox 720.  It is too bad they didn't plan the sytem out to be more modular from the begining.  That way the core fanboys would have had a system that they wanted from the start and the other "deluxe" version could have been for the adventurous types.