Nighthawk117 on 21 March 2015
| oniyide said: it was part of their whole bid to take over the living room, but they really overestimated how much people wanted to say "xbox on" |
Agreed. Here's an interesting timeline:
Nov. 2010 - Kinect 1.0 is introduced and sells like crazy, becoming the fastest electronic device ever sold and going on to sell 24 million units over its lifetime.
May 2011 - With Kinect still selling like hotcakes, MS buys Skype for 8.5 billion. It's at this time that they probably decide to include Kinect 2.0 with every Xbox One, hoping Skype would become a killer app for it. Heck, it's not like they spent that 8.5b on making games for XB1.
Nov. 2013 - Xbox One debuts with Kinect 2.0 but is hampered by its $100 price point above PS4. Kinect, Skype, and games with Kinect features are not enough to save it.
June 2014 - Kinect is unbundled from XB1.
