Now that XBOX One no longer requires Kinect?

Question

Now that xbox one has finally reversed its policy on the Kinect having to be constantly plugged into the console and always listening (article here http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/12/microsoft-says-new-xbox-one-will-work-without-kinect/ ). It makes me wonder since they can reverse all these policies so easily, that they were never a real requirement to begin with. Has microsoft been lying to us the entire time?

Answer 1

No, they haven't been lying. The changes they're making can all be done in software and can all be done in time for launch, even if they're requirements in the current software.



The downside is that they seem to have no faith in their console and are changing anything that gets the least amount of bad press -- even if some of them were bad PR ideas in the first place.

Answer 2

No, Microsoft just knows they're in deep sh*t and are going to lose the console war badly due to their past policies with the Xbone. There have even been Microsoft employees caught at Wii U events trying to persuade people to buy Xbones, which is just sad.



This is too little, too late. They lost.

Answer 3

they backed up everything they did and said they could not change it and now they went back on everything i can think of.

they said DRM would be happening they said it won't come with headphones and they said they could not remove the kinect. they went back on it all.

that is why i believe from now on we don't call this the xbox 1 it is a confusing name anyway since it is the 3rd xbox.

from now on we should call it the xbox 180.