The fact that I only touch my remote for DVR functions anymore is enough to show Kinect's worth to me.
So when you want to change the volume, do you just chant "Xbox Volume Up" again and since the Kinect only incrementally increases volume each time you input a voice command? How precisely can you fast forward or rewind when there's a lag on voice commands?
Even for multimedia stuff, the Kinect has its shortcomings.
I wonder how market would respond to $349 w/o kinect and $449 with? Since it isnt needed or mandatory make it optional.
So when you want to change the volume, do you just chant "Xbox Volume Up" again and since the Kinect only incrementally increases volume each time you input a voice command? How precisely can you fast forward or rewind when there's a lag on voice commands?
Even for multimedia stuff, the Kinect has its shortcomings.
One of the main problems is that almost none of the multiplatform developers will be bothered to create Kinect-specific features or gameplay mechanics, or any that have any sort of significance.
Then it appears the Xbox One is not for you.
The only fix is to redesign the OS . Kick out kinect , up the specs and keep the price
RE: How would the market respond? Well, I think some damage is done, but ultimately if MS is sitting at somewhere between 60-40 or 66-33, you'd assume that the price cut would at least get them to 50-50 or 55-45 (all numbers in Sony's favour). I suspect the mindshare at this early stage would be worth it, personally.
RE: How would the market respond? Well, I think some damage is done, but ultimately if MS is sitting at somewhere between 60-40 or 66-33, you'd assume that the price cut would at least get them to 50-50 or 55-45 (all numbers in Sony's favour). I suspect the mindshare at this early stage would be worth it, personally.
For $500? That makes no sense.
The only fix is to redesign the OS . Kick out kinect , up the specs and keep the price
If the main problem with those systems is price, then removing useless, unpopular peripherals from the system that only inflate the manufacture cost would be by far the easiest, simplest method of price reduction. You say "that ship has sailed" yet fail to make any argument to that point.
The only fix is to redesign the OS . Kick out kinect , up the specs and keep the price
Glad to see Wii U suggestions bleeding into Xbone threads now.
The only fix is to redesign the OS . Kick out kinect , up the specs and keep the price
Console executives hate common sense because reasons...
They turned on their master.
My pre-launch prediction was it would take about 6 months for MS to see the writing on the wall and be forced to sell a SKU without Kinect at the $399 price point. They really put themselves between a rock and a hard place when they made spec/design compromises in order to include Kinect in every box and keep the price at/under $500.
RE: How would the market respond? Well, I think some damage is done, but ultimately if MS is sitting at somewhere between 60-40 or 66-33, you'd assume that the price cut would at least get them to 50-50 or 55-45 (all numbers in Sony's favour). I suspect the mindshare at this early stage would be worth it, personally.
Yes because upping the specs is just a magic switch they can flip and not take a loss on.
i dont get the point about needing memorize "oddly specific syntax."
XBOX ON
XBOX SNAP...
XBOX GO TO...
XBOX OFF
Kinect Sports as well.Is anything being made for the new kinect? All I remember is that Fantasia game
Here's how to make the Xbox One look attractive:
1. Remove the Kinect
2. Drop the Price to $349.99
3. Add a 6-month XBL Gold card.
4. Sell a Titanfall Bundle for $399.99
Do that, and people will buy it because:
A.) doesn't have the dead-weight of the Kinect
B.) the price is reflective of the hardware inside it (using the PS4's $399.99 hardware as a measure)
C.) XBL Gold itself is too much IMO
D.) Titanfall could be a system-seller.
Do those things, and you have VALUE.
Meanwhile on PS4
Yes because upping the specs is just a magic switch they can flip and not take a loss on.
Or, they desperately want their master to succeed.
As xxracerxx said, this was talked about WIDELY before the console even launched by the targeted audience, with abject dismissal from the "enthusiast press."
Interesting to see who was right all along.
Ah, yes. But for people like me, $399 was my price point before I saw how much of a gap there is between the One and PS4. My price point has now changed.
Which takes me back to my first reply you had an issue with, where the hell are all these amazing Kinect games? There haven't been any in over 3 years of Kinect being out. There wasn't any in the Xbone launch, and there aren't any in the foreseeable future.
If MS
1. Didn't include kinect
2. Didn't insult gamers with their DRM bullshit to begin with
3. Matched ps4 specs
Me and my dozen or so friends with ps4's would all have xb1's right now most likely.
I was going to get a ps4 either way for remote play but all my friends were 100% xbox until the drm snaffu, and then kinect/price were the final nails in the coffin.
They turned on their master.
Up the specs to make it a 6 year console cycle rather than a 3, have a intel cpu and and a dual gpu kind of performance would make it future proof. Current consoles seem like a stop gap measure as if they made them a step up just to see if the console industry as it is will be the same 6 years from now
Polygon still has tons of good content. People go a little too nuts over that stupid documentary thing and Arthur Gies' nonstop nonsense.
This. A follow up console to the 360 should have been a no-brainer, yet the fine folks at Microsoft bungled it at every opportunity.