Xbox One Doubles US Sales in June Thanks to Kinect-Less Console and E3

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Tomorrow NPD will publish its sales data for the US market tomorrow, but apparently Microsoft decided to jump start them and publish its own stats today. According to Redmond’s company the Xbox One more than doubled its sales in June compared to May.

Microsoft attributes the increase in sales to “the new $399 offering” and “The amazing lineup of games announced during E3.” Interestingly, the lack of Kinect is never directly mentioned. It has become somewhat of a taboo in Microsoft’s official communication, but that’s marketing for you.
Looks like there’s still room for pitched competition this year, which is always a good thing. Tomorrow we’ll know if the Xbox One managed to overtake its arch-rival, at least for June. My money is on a very close result, one way or another.





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Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/07/16/xbox-one-doubles-us-sales-in-june-thanks-to-kinect-less-console-and-e3-announcements/

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DusknoirPosted:

The kinect is pointless anyways

KixaPosted:

They made a great move on removing the kinect.

TomPosted:

Well of course this would happen. Kinect is kinda bad imo. I never really use it.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

Now if they only allowed this option for the original release of the Xbox One.

PryzelPosted:

I love the kinect and it surprised me that more people seem to prefer it without the kinect. For 100 extra it seems worth it to me.

Evo8Posted:

BigTunaDaBoss Microsoft's e3 was horrible i think compared to Sony's, the only game that looked good was forza horizon 2


They are remaking the best video game ever, don't know where you got this from.

PolygonPosted:

I'm not quite sure why people could just not use the Kinect, however -
I guess people are sure that no-one is spying on them now XD

OasisPosted:

BigTunaDaBoss Microsoft's e3 was horrible i think compared to Sony's, the only game that looked good was forza horizon 2


Clearly you have a very short memory. Xbox E3 was nothing but games, nobody is expected to like every game but to say FH2 was the only good game is just bad judgement. Off the top of my head I can remember a number of great titles ie Crackdown, Halo 5, Scalebound, Fable Legends and so on.

WheyPosted:

I am not surprised by this, I would much rather pay much less for the console itself as kinect is not needed and personally I wouldn't even want it.

TricksPosted:

The kinect is 100% useless. Does not surprise me at all.