"I would state my opinion, sure. But demanding the Kinect becomes optional is just.. childish.
The customer(plural) can be right, yes, but you can't be throwing that phrase around for BS reasons. And no, I don't believe in hating an unproven Kinect just because I haven't tried it, or am unwilling to see potential
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No, I won't go up to M$ HQ and hold a gun up to everyone and
demand that they release a cheaper version of the XB1 without kinect and/or a blueray drive, however, I'm not paying $100-$200 for something I do not plan to use probably at all. I'm not the only one and quite honestly, developers have less to worry about when less people buy a console with the required specs to play their games. No one knows for sure how many sales are lost for this very reason but I imagine there probably is a significant market M$ COULD tap into, if it chose to. It personally wouldn't surprise me if M$ sold the xbone 1 without the kinect or blueray drive, which that alone can be cheaper than the ps4 as is, and made about 1.5 times the sales it has so far.
It's also obvious M$ is just trying to cram **** people don't even want down their throats especially when they fire certain special people on the xbox 1 team because of it. I don't blame them they do just want to make money after all, but there's a difference in being smart about and just hoping for the best. Quite honestly, they only way M$ could make a smart move out of this is to release the cheaper model without BOTH the blueray drive AND the Kinect a year or 2 after it's release making it cheaper than the ps4. They get the suckers (and the lesser few who actually want everything the xbox ships with) right out of the release for the first year or so and then wait a while to bring down the cost for everyone else.
I don't want a cheaper version of the wii + an xbox + a blueray player. I just want an xbox personally.