RUMOR: Xbox One Basic Edition will Drop Kinect, Selling for $379.99
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[quote][B]A new image that seems taken from the Microsoft official store has leaked, apparently showing that the company is planning to announce and then launch a Basic Edition of the [URL="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Xbox-One-DRM-Reversal-Was-Great-for-Microsoft-Says-Will-Wright-363648.shtml"]Xbox One[/URL], which will sell for 379.99 dollars or Euro.[/B]
The new version of the next-gen console will not include the Kinect motion tracking system but would otherwise be identical to the currently announced console.[/quote]
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Worse than Todd Howard
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvJtSx0_VlQ[/media]
BUT I THOUGHT IT NEEDED KINECT TO WORK
Honestly I thought mandatory Kinect was one thing they wouldn't back down on, since they hype it up so much.
oh fuck it I give up on either console I'll just upgrade my pc instead.
Just choose a business strategy and stick with it, constant backpedaling doesn't make you look good.
I respect them going for what the customer wants, but it's really hard to fully respect them or support them when their original intention was to slap all this shit on and now they're on the "oh fuck oh fuck we're gonna be poor" path
Microsoft certainly has been throwing some great punches at Sony after Sony threw Microsoft out of the ring at E3.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;41728406]BUT I THOUGHT IT NEEDED KINECT TO WORK[/QUOTE]
Snowden happened, and they 'found a way'.
what about all the game devs who have been building their games around the mandatory kinect support? this is gonna piss them off
I'm glad I don't like how consoles play. :v:
Thanks to this excellent marketing decision, I'm going to go out when the new consoles are released and buy a PS3 for cheap.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;41728435]what about all the game devs who have been building their games around the mandatory kinect support? this is gonna piss them off[/QUOTE]
I wonder if people are going to buy this and because of all they heard, they'll still think that they can use voice commands.
XBOX!...
XBOX!
XBOX!
Honey, this shits broken.
Honestly I rather have them backpedal and apologize for their shit instead of keep doing dumb things.
I seriously hope they learn from this.
[QUOTE=redBadger;41728431]Microsoft certainly has been throwing some great punches at Sony after Sony threw Microsoft out of the ring at E3.[/QUOTE]
Well, hopefully they're out of the ring, so their punches won't count as anything.
[QUOTE=Blah360;41728465]Well, hopefully they're out of the ring, so their punches won't count as anything.[/QUOTE]
A $379 price tag over $399 is definitely a hard punch. Sure it's only $20 but still: that's $20 less
No, no, we totally forgot that you tried fucking every single one of your consumers over and not listening to your customers until a competitor made a come-back.
Totally forgot.
[QUOTE=redBadger;41728473]A $379 price tag over $399 is definitely a hard punch. Sure it's only $20 but still: that's $20 less[/QUOTE]
If they throw in some free xbox live it might be for some people.
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;41728412]
Just choose a business strategy and stick with it, constant backpedaling doesn't make you look good.[/QUOTE]
Yeah just choose a business strategy and don't bother fixing it if you realize its going to end in a tremendous loss for your company!
[QUOTE=Blah360;41728465]Well, hopefully they're out of the ring, so their punches won't count as anything.[/QUOTE]
Hahaha, there are still going to be millions of people who buy it because it's xbox.
I was starting to think that all the fuck ups they made would make people start to realize other things exist aside from COD and Xbox but the cycle is going to continue.
Microsoft, why must you insist on following the PS3 playbook [I]this tightly[/I]? Even before it's available, it's dropping mandatory features.
Lol who would get the full version
So now it's not even the same console they announced.
lol.
This oozes desperation.
also this just spells further doom for wii-u. the only model of wii-u available in america anymore is the 350 dollar one. given the choice between xbox one or wii-u it'll be no contest with a 30 dollar difference in price
You know, at least they listened. They may have backpedaled, but at least they fixed all the shit we hated.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;41728529]also this just spells further doom for wii-u. the only model of wii-u available in america anymore is the 350 dollar one. given the choice between xbox one or wii-u it'll be no contest with a 30 dollar difference in price[/QUOTE]
I'm still going to buy a Wii U first. (Next year sometime, mind you.)
Why?
Because, each company's console reflects its interests. Microsoft is a software and services (and, increasingly, hardware) company, and the Xbox One is designed to fit into the Xbone-shaped hole in the middle of Microsoft's plan for your home network of personal devices. Windows 8/RT/whatever PCs, tablets, phones, SmartGlass, Xbox Music/Movies/etc. It all ties together.
Nintendo makes games and game consoles. Their focus is fun games. The problem is, they go for innovative and unusual ("gimmicky" if you're less charitable) control schemes and peripherals, because they also make a tidy little side profit on accessories, and third-party developers have a very hard time getting to grips with Nintendo's unique input methods and lower-powered hardware.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;41728535]You know, at least they listened. They may have backpedaled, but at least they fixed all the shit we hated.[/QUOTE]
but at the same time, it shows that they just outright lied about elements of the console
It's a fake image. Everyone and their mother seems to be jumping over any fake info about MS dropping the Kinect from the console.
I'm glad they are fixing some of the stupid mistakes they made but the fact that they made them in the first place doesn't bode well for any future decisions they make when it is too late for people to not buy their console.
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;41728561]but at the same time, it shows that they just outright lied about elements of the console[/QUOTE]
I'm still suspicious that the whole thing was a marketing scheme to make it look shit and then fix everything and appear as the people's company who listens to the community.
I mean no one was really dumb enough to try and sell the console in it's original form, right?
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