Kinectless Xbox One sku incoming!!!!

lol lemmings can't catch a break today.

@ladyblue said:

@Heil68 said:

@shawn30 said:

@BeardMaster said:

@misterpmedia said:

What most of the die hard lems on this board will be eating today. Looking forward to the good sportsmanship from a select few who will come out and admit it.

MS screwed us, will eat crow when its appropriate. The feathers are tough to chew.

Yeah, I'm chewing on a bit of crow, but the free games on the way helps it go down a bit better :)

they aren't free now Shawn..lol, it's just like PSN+ :)

Really? lol no

Members will have subscription-based accessto free games ranging from top hits to breaking indie stars. The program will launch on Xbox One with “Max: The Curse of Brotherhood” and “Halo: Spartan Assault.” A single Gold membership will get you access to the free games for both Xbox One and Xbox 360.

lol yes

MS should also ditch the HDMI input to save on manufacturing costs.

LOL

So NOW the lemmings think they're getting free games?

"Free games on Xbox One are available to active Gold members only. Stop your Xbox Live Gold subscription and lose the free games you've downloaded."

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/05/13/xbox-one-deals-games-with-gold-launch-in-june/

Spin fail

They responded to the people who criticized their plan, giving them what many said they wanted. If this is such a PR nightmare, why are people on this very thread saying that they intend to buy a One now? The primary source of negative comments are coming from people who have been anti-Xbox long before this announcement.

manly men do other things than sit on their ass playing video games.

this guy is hilarious

Gamers in Nov. 2013: Why would I pay $100 more for something I will never use?

Gamers in May 2014: HA! Why would I pay the same price for such an underpowered device?!

Can't people just be glad that a company is trying to make better decisions in order to compete? Rather than trying to spin them as "weak"?

The old model was too good to last. Damn shame.

We can only hope. Long overdue.

It should really be $400 with kinect or $300 without it. I cant see this helping them any.

...like sit on their ass and post on gaming forums?

And here you are talking about them on like the rest of us.:)

No I would say it's coming more from the long time Xbox supporters like me who feel shafted.

Good. I now want an xbox one.

awesome. kind of impressed with how flexible and how fast MS has changed this gen. Obviously they had to if they wanted to compete but at least they are willing to listen and adapt unlike Nintendo.

MS stealing headlines once again.

@draign: in a bad way

Well I can understand that if you never wanted it, but if you sell the Kinect when this new SKU launches, you will probably get a decent price for it. I predict they will sell the new ones for $150 or so, so GameStop will probably pay you about $50-$60 for them. You could of course get more on EBay.

Why do you feel shafted, do you not want Kinect?

they made and mistake and now they are rectifying it. What wrong with that? You rather they just continue digging themselves deeper just because of pride? Kinect is a useless piece of garbage anyway.

@Heil68:

hahahhaha

I think it's indicative of a company that doesn't have a clear direction, perhaps created by misleading executives who say that once people try Kinect, they'll miss having it around. I think this would likely be a necessary step eventually, but perhaps it's coming quicker than I imagined and in a way that surprises developers.

That's not a good thing, to sting the hand that provides content for your console.

I'm not anti-anything except for boring things. Both of these new consoles are largely boring and will be saved only by must-play exclusives (for me personally). I do think this issue seems like it was poorly handled.

Excellent, I guess it's time for me to size up a purchase.

I do like it for it's media features...I just don't like the whole bait and switch and flip flopping MS is doing. They sold XB1 & Kinect as One, now nah we were just kidding.

I'm thinking the exact opposite.

See, Wii U and Xbox one have had some significant price drops now in their relatively short lives.

If anything, I'll wait for the consoles to get even more cheaper, won't take long :)

When a company sells you on something you expect them to stick to it. I can only imagine how the kinect will now fall off the face of the earth, because why continue to invest in it?

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Yeah, it's been a weird year for sure. I guess I'm just glad that things will continue to be interesting on this forum. I mean, will this boost their sales? What if it doesn't make a significant difference?

m$ had such a great vision for gaming, why did u ruin lems hopes and dreams sony?? why?????

- Xbox One MUST have an internet connection

- Games can't be shared

- Games can be traded-in only at select retailers

- Games must be installed

- Kinect must be plugged in for Xbox One to function

- All games must have basic Kinect functionality

- Xbox One must be purchased with Kinect

Terrible news. We need Kinect.

Lol

"So? Who cares if the GWG stuff is old! At least we get to keep them!"

"I-I'm perfectly fine with a subscription model! P-PlayStation Plus does it v-very well!"

Oh, lemmings. Lemmings, lemmings, lemmings.

I wouldn't spend mroe than $200 on a Wii U as the majority of games on that platform don't interest me but with the amount of great looking games coming for the Xbox One, I think $399 is acceptable.

I think it'll boost sales for sure, you've knocked 100 bucks off the price and removed hardware that most of the core gaming crowd don't care to own anyways. Probably too little too late, though. This SKU should have been an option since launch, but instead MS put all their eggs in one basket -- a REALLY GOOD STRATEGY THAT NOBODY THINKS IS EVER A BAD IDEA.

This would be a very different conversation if MS had been responsible. Instead they had Ballmer-style executives making Ballmer-style decisions with Ballmer-style reasoning. Surprisingly bad.

Yeah because playing the console we chose to buy has been such a punishment...

Some people can afford the luxury of buying what they want when they want! Its part of the parcel of being an adult, you will get there too one day!

Oh great .... less kinect support, one less reason to buy an Xbox 1....

Seriously, what is left that makes it worth choosing over a PS4? Destiny will replace Halo in relevance. Zzz gears zzzz forza.

If kinect was not part of the X1 from the start, the X1 would be more on par with the PS4 in terms of performance. Kinect was the only thing that made the console unique, but at the same time no one really liked the features it offered, and for gaming its been rather useless. At $400 the X1 is not a very attractive buy, but neither was its initial $500 price point with kinect. So really MS vision with Kinect an the X1 failed, so now they are just hoping for the best with this move.

Well, I feel like I called this shit. They actually didn't make it to E3 though lol

yea i mean technically you arent supposed to call our bluff when we claim we have actual fulfilling lives.

@magicalclick: but i have a x360, i just do not buy crap MS just confimed that

A good idea IMO. For a lot of people kinect is an invasion of privacy and for a lot of other it doesn't warrant the weaker hardware for the price.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2q0F5oT0Zo

R.I.P, Waggle. Our long national nightmare is finally over.

Of course. But I'm just thinking: was last generation the same ? Where the price drops this early ?

I don't remember so. So I can just hold out for a bit more and perhaps buy a PS4 and Xbone for 299 :D

fantastic vid, hes a damn retard. but he says what we think.