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From the first article, > Microsoft is making another Xbox One policy change by allowing gamers to use the upcoming console without Kinect. > upcoming They d
by VyseofArcadia 3y ago
From the first article,
> Microsoft is making another Xbox One policy change by allowing gamers to use the upcoming console without Kinect.
> upcoming
They did not try. There was no trying. It was not eventual. They folded before it ever came to market.
And the thing already had worse performance than the PS4, so dropping the Kinect really meant just having an inferior product with no product differentiation.
- flohofwoe 3y agoThe second article shows though that they had bundled Kinect with each Xbox One for about half a year before giving up (I guess they really got thrashed hard by PS4 sales and went into panic mode). The thing is simply that Kinect made the Xbox One more expensive than a PS4, and that for a piece of hardware that most Xbox users saw at best as a gimmick. It probably was the first sane decision of the bungled Xbox One launch.