It's merely a tactic to move the conversation (gaming news sites) away from the NPD numbers and turn the focus to games (taken straight out of Amazon's playbook). Microsoft needs to get their fanbase excited. I'm certain that if there is a Halo 2 HD game in the works they'll spend a ton of time on it at E3 and every person in the US will be made aware of its release. No harm no foul.
It's not the gap, it's the 115k number that's worrisome since it's lower than any April for 360. Sony can't be happy with 200k either though.
It's far from over, at least in North America.
They're getting everything else done early because the E3 conference itself is going to be a major Gears of War information blowout.
This. Sony doing well so far pushed MS to drop the stupid kinect and sell sku without it. Which means I can finally buy one as that being included was a dealbreaker for me.
Talk like this is how the thread gets pushed off-topic after a mod just said not long ago to keep this focused on the Xbox One.
thought it was a good idea to have to unlock all the game modes separately? This is supposed to be a party game where you can jump into any mode, not grind through events I'm not interested in to get to bowling. Was very disappointed with how they used the Kinect for this one.
That's great news! Hopefully the inevitable Halo 5 LE Xbox One console looks as good as the Halo 4 LE Xbox 360 console. Hopefully they're nice enough for it to be Kinectless as well.http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/games-halo-journey-announcement
halo 5 in Fall 2015.
"Many fans noted that I was very deliberate with my phrasing on stage at E3 last year. I spoke about a “journey,” rather than a destination – and that journey definitely begins in 2014 with a giant leap, rather than one small step. We’ll give you much more information about our plans for this year at the Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing on June 9, and we’re confident that “Halo” fans will be pretty excited about the special plans we have in store."
The game is made by Microsoft. I would be extremely surprised if it's not at least "better with Kinect." They need to put their money where their mouth is. If they're touting the Kinect as "essential" to the XB1, then I would be very surprised if Kinect is not involved in some way. If I were them, I would make the game playable without the Kinect (to increase sales), but deliberately include a few achievements and/or missable side missions (?) that required the Kinect (to emphasize the Kinect, and to force cheeve hunters to buy the sensor).
It was the old leadership touting Kinect so much. There was the interview with Phil Spencer the other day saying he started planning to decouple Kinect from the console as soon as he was hired to take over.
I agree Microsoft doesn't care much about the numbers right now per se as shown by the fact that they announced a new Kinectless SKU a month ahead of time. In turn guaranteeing themselves a terrible month of May. That said, they do care about the perception of the Xbox brand and it is in their best interest to protect it. So, the Halo 5 press release goes more towards accomplishing that goal. It gets people excited about the brand and gaming websites this morning will discuss Halo 5 instead of bad numbers. It is trendy these days to knock Halo but it still is a sales juggernaut.
This. No one uses or cares about the kinect for gaming. People only praise it for moving around the menus which they can update and make better to use a controller with.
I find it's TV Controls and Netflix controls extremely useful and no controller update with make searching with my controller easier than my voice.
Actually I use my Kinect a lot for:
There's already been several people respond about how much they use and enjoy it so... That beats your "no one" theory.
No one is just an exaggeration to say that there wasn't mass market appeal for it to be a selling feature and make the X1 attractive to a mainstream market at $100 more than PS4.
People are obviously not going to want to spend an extra hundred dollars on something that they're not necessarily going to use right now. But once people use the Kinect, like me, they do realize how much fun and how useful it really is. $450 seems much more appealing than $500 and shouldve been bundled at that price. But I get they should've had both SKUs at launch.
If you watch Mad Men there is a great line the lead character Don Draper says and it seems to be what Microsoft is doing, the line is "If you don't like what is being said, then change the conversation." Those not familiar with the show, Don Draper is the head of an ad agency that does advertising and PR.
You guys didnt read my post obviously. Here it is again:
Do you know the numbers on that one? You don't like to talk to your console but I think it's pretty cool. It's like my little Jarvis, Iron Man always gets the cool toys.
I think more people were upset with how wishy washey MS has been. It affected the sales numbers more than you would think. Then no one really wanted Kinect (hell I just hooked mine up last night) and the huge price difference when you can play the same games with the exception of the exclusives. I don't think you can base how in the long run a system will do by its first year.
But it also fragmented their audience and pretty much cemented the death of a peripheral they pushed so hard to be the identity of their machine. Seems to me if they truly believed in Kinect they would have reached price parity with the PS4 keeping the complete package intact, but it turns out the bottom line is more important.
Well that leak earlier this year is turning out to be 100% accurate.
ok i would not say never but nothing like some people say. i would say it work 90 percent of the time.
