Xbox One without “irrelevant” Kinect coming 2015, says Pachter

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Wedbrush Securities analyst and quintessential crystal ball holder Michael Patcher feels that Kinect was former Interactive Entertainment Busioness President Don Mattrick’s favorite child, and now Mattrick isn’t at Microsoft anymore. That’s why he thinks that the technologically advanced camera is going to be removed from the box of the Xbox One, as he explained during the latest episode of the Bonus Round webcast.

Kinect was Don Mattrick’s favorite child. He believed in it, he thought it was gonna change the world. He believed it a mechanism to cross sell skype and to cross sell cable access and doing other things.


I think Skype is a really cool app, but FaceTime works. you don’t really need that Skype in your living room… It’s better if everybody is on the couch, but FaceTime works.


I think the voice command is really cool, but you can use your tablet. The answer is: Don isn’t there anymore. You have a new boss over the Xbox division, who has no skin in the Kinect game, so… Sure they’re gonna unbundle. Not in 2014. They will not change the SKU that dramatically in the first full year. It’s a 2015 event


Pachter continued by explaining that the removal of Kinect will allow Microsoft to cut the price of the Xbox One, but Sony is in the position to stay ahead like it did with the PS2.

Just the way they introduced the 4 GB Xbox after a couple years, they’ll bring one out and it’ll be something that’ll look a little dumbed down… I think they’ll actually pick the core model and put a 2 TB hard drive in it, and then the dumbed down one will have a 500 GB hard drive, and it’ll have no Kinect, and it’ll be 400 bucks. That’s the easiest way to do the price cut. The problem is that if by spring ’15 they cut the price to $400, Sony goes 349 for ours! Sony right now is in a position to stay ahead of them, and this is what happened with the PS2. PS2 kept taking share by cutting price.


I think this is a price game. I think unbundling Kinect is the smartest way to get competitive right away.


The seasoned analyst concluded that Kinect does have a saving grace, and it’s that it caters to the “selfie crowd,” especially with the recent implementation of Twitch broadcasting.



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Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/03/09/kinect-is-irrelevant-xbox-one-will-get-a-price-cut-but-sony-is-in-position-to-stay-ahead-according-to-pachter/

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DV8Posted:

Aftercast I really don't know many people who use the kinect, besides the squeakers who think it's cool.


Well those little kids most likely got spied on when people were looking at people sleep and other things.

SzaPosted:

Alot of people dont really use the kinects but the kids thats like it

DV8Posted:

Thespian
daRealRush When they take the Kinect away, that will make the console so much cheaper, but if they wanna try to out do Sony, they need to do it now, and stop waiting around.


Its a good thing if it is cheaper and thats what I want and thats what most people want


If they receive a high demand of people complaining about the Kinect it will possibly be taken off of the Xbox One some how and the price eventually lowered dramatically.

DV8Posted:

Invictus They can't make it without the kinect, it will not be the same, not saying xbox on, etc.


I think it will be a lot better without it though too be honest.

DV8Posted:

Odin
Int I never used the kinect and never will..


I only used it for kinect boxing and adventures and sometimes for skypeing


I would never use it, it is simply a webcam for a gaming console, unneeded.

MaggardoPosted:

When they take the Kinect away, that will make the console so much cheaper, but if they wanna try to out do Sony, they need to do it now, and stop waiting around.

realsnake38284Posted:

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itomni Hope all xbox's come with kinect OK who here can look me in the eyes and say Xbox Snap Netflix and watch netflix and play a game with No lag at all.


Why would you even play a game while watching Netflix though?

That's a bit silly.


i can say that, mine runs fine never lag in any game rarely like twice every two hours on the tv/netflix part. i have also watched tv played a game and been in a party at the same time with no lag.

SIKSPosted:

Monster-Munch Since i got the xbox one i have only used kinect twice.


I barely used my kinect on the 360 let alone on the one.

ResortPosted:

I dont like the kinect really, But i never used it

AdamuPosted:

Since i got the xbox one i have only used kinect twice.


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