Why is no one talking about the soft XB1 price drop

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VanceIX said:

Nicklesbe said:

VanceIX said:

There's tons of good news. Price drop, Kinect requirement removed, bundled-in games, Games with Gold getting better, removal of Netflix/Hulu blocks via Live Gold, 3D BluRay support, Tier 2 launch window announced, Phil Spencer becoming head of Xbox division, EA Access, etc.

There's been plenty of great news. 

I wouldn't really say any of that was great news. Most of them are moves of desperation, or attempts to look like parity with their main competitor. EA access is probably going to be terrible and may have horrible affects on the game industry much like XBL and the introduction of DLC had horrible affects. Only real great news out of all of that was Phil Spencer taking over. Everything else merely highlights what their competition did first and still doing better. All of it with the exception of EA access is a damn good start but none of it is great news. Especially for early adopters that bought into the idea of kinect.

They were good for gamers.

New things which are good for gamers ---> good news.

good things for gamers does not = great news when you have been doing terrible things for gamers. They also wern't new things, they were things in the industry that were pretty much expected. Even if they were "new" things that were good for gamers it still would not equate to great news. Doing what is expected of them, what is at this point an inudstry standard doesn't even make good news let alone great news. Great news would be announcing a dozen well made games specifically for kinect that don't suck/mostly unresponsive riddles with bugs or annoyances along with canceling the requirement to pay for gold and promising to only release full and complete games from now on and not chopping them up for DLC. Those would be great news.