What was the whole point of Kinect 2?

[Dusk]

Darwinianevolution said:

Dusk said:

Darwinianevolution said:
Microsoft entered the 8th gen too confident. It thought that, because the original Kineckt sold really well and the XBox 360 practically draw agaist the PlayStation 3, they could follow the same strategy and keep being succesfull (not to mention the DRM policies). When everyone called them out, they had to make a new plan to compete against the PS. Even Nintendo didn't follow the motion controlls, in favor of a tablet-like controller. It wasn't a good idea, but you have to admit tablts are very popular nowadays, so the logic is at least there.

Actually Nintendo till uses motion controls quite a bit with the tablet, but there is also the option to not use them for many. 

What is with the gamepad hate? 

I don't hate the tablet, but I'm sure the gamepad is the main reason Nintendo can't make an effective price cut (like the GCube), and the machine really needs one. Specially after the NX announcement/teaser. The WiiU has a lot of problems, and even if the gamepad isn't its biggest, it's certainly important.

It doesn't need a price cut. It's not going to help it, and if it did it would be very short term. It's already at a very reasonable price and there are good bundles. The interest just isn't there for the console right now. It is slowly growing, but it's not going to break any records lol. Just like the GC it's still not going to sell well with a price cut. 

The Wii U doesn't have a lot of problems. It generally has two. 1. Lack of third party support. 2. Hasn't sold as well as Nintendo would have liked (reasons for this make no difference because it's all the same result to the same problem).  The Gamepad is not a problem for the system, everything that people come up with as reasons to the gamepad being a problem are entirely conjecture without any real evidence. 

I wouldn't be surprised to see a price drop once the console is still able to profit from a sale with a price drop. Dropping the price to a point below profit won't help Nintendo because what they are worried about is profit at this point and it's going to be a tight rope walk for them with such a low install base of the Wii U. If they were to lower the cost below the profit point, they would be taking a massive risk with the hope it sells super well and that all those that buy the system purchase good amounts of software to go with it. It might only need 1 or two, but it might need 3 or 4, only Nintendo really knows at this point. 

Nobody even knows what the NX is, and we won't know until it is brought up in 2016 and there likely won't be anything tangible till 2017. Nintendo is not a stupid company, I'm sure they have taken consideration of the different outcomes of the announcements just recently made.