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[War Eagle]

Nice! Drop the price by $100 and

Spoiler

I'm still not going to buy one.

 

[BadWolf]

Backpedaling like crazy, jeez.

 

[Somnid]

Dropping Kinect from the box makes Kinect DOA. Making it not mandatory is a good idea though.

 

[GANGSTERKILLER]

I will buy the Xbone day one if true.

 

[Sendou]

That would make it officially better than PS4.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Won't believe it until whathifi.com reports on it.

I like this junior. I want to adopt him.

 

[Vigilant Gambit]

If this is true, it's one of the three things that need to change in order for me to buy an Xbone.

The next two are it publishing policy and the price.

 

[badgenome]

is the Xbox One becoming the new PS4?

Wouldn't that make it the Xbox 360-2-2 Versus Duodecim?

 

[Diablo Rosso]

I kinda thought that in the Jimmy Fallon COD video, the COD guy said, if we had the kinect you could do that. (making your dog bark). But Jimmy was playing the game without Kinect connected.

They probably were playing on PC and using the Xbone controller.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

Ugh. I smell a price drop coming. Sony better have some really competitive stuff up their sleeves to fight this or they're screwed.

Microsoft is the gaming equivalent of Two-Face. They're just flipping a coin over and over again and following whatever it says. No identity to speak of.

 

[methane47]

!!!

 

[Snakeyes]

Yes. YES!

 

[Spideyknight]

Copy Sony more. #FollowtheLeader

 

[chubigans]

Came from Jonathon Liedtke

More here.

Is THAT the source? Bwahaha, give me a break.

 

[kirblar]

This and a price drop and MS have won

Except for the whole "no indie games want to deal with them" thing and the "how can you trust them" thing, sure.

 

[Lasthope106]

Is there a gif that encapsulates the word "backpedal"?

 

[War Eagle]

That would make it officially better than PS4.

But... but dat 8Gb GDDR5!

 

[xxracerxx]

That would make it officially better than PS4.

In what way? For you or everyone? This hyperbole stuff is getting crazy.

 

[Purexed]

You could at least block the contact information for the Edelman PR person, that's just tacky posting her phone numbers and email on such a public form.

good news tho if true.

 

[G17]

Thank goodness. Really happy with the news. I didn't think Microsoft would ever use any data but it is a security risk and I'd also rather not carry a Kinect for LAN parties.

 

[DopeyFish]

They're still bundling it in and charging you for it.

Right now yes but this means it's highly likely they will have a system which doesn't come with it now

Probably shortly after launch, but I don't expect day one kinect free editions

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Great, two identical machines. Whoopee.

 

[Solo Act]

I didn't want the DRM or Kinect, but seriously, these are what the Xbox One was built around. If it's not for a mandatory/upgraded Kinect and "improved" online functionality/sharing, why didn't the console get updated 2 years ago? Are they really just going to put out an 'Xbox 360 True-HD"?

 

[TheOGB]

oh my life

 

[SporeCrawler]

Wouldnt surprise me at this point

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Is THAT the source? Bwahaha, give me a break.

RUMOR is in the title.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Please be true. I needed additional clarification that the Xbox team is aimless.

 

[Mascot]

Make it optional, drop the price by £80, and I'm back on board.

 

[AOC83]

That would make it officially better than PS4.

Don´t know how that´s supposed ton work with having worse hardware and much worse first party support.

 

[slightconfuse]

Wow Microsoft back tracking on all these features is insane. No clear vision

Both consoles are the same now.

 

[Moze]

Why? It would still be the weaker, less flexible box with potentially less first-party and indie backing. It would only highlight the Xbones relative flaws compared to the PS4.

This is also talking about removing the Kinect requirement while still maintaining a higher price-point.

I was talking more of a $299-$349 price (without kinect of course)

 

[reddmyst]

Keep backpedaling MS, it's your...destiny!

 

[Feorax]

Wow... I mean seriously, do MS just not have any confidence in their business plan? Next thing you know there will be no HDMI in on the thing.

 

[darkside31337]

I would be completely floored if this was true. It's really hard to believe. They must have gotten some ugly initial numbers.

Like literally almost everything they announced at the initial reveal of the XB1 would be either completely stripped out or drastically scaled back exactly one month later.

 

[maquiladora]

If this is true then I'll be buying One in a couple of years for sure.

The $499 price tag is the Xbone's only big problem now.

 

[badgenome]

That would make it officially better than PS4.

If by "better" you mean "almost as good as, but not quite", then yeah.

 

[flamingotripod]

If this happens, gaf wont be able to recover

 

[trmas]

There will be no price drop. The price drop will come after the inital adopters have been screwed over. Part of being an early adopter.

 

[shinobi602]

Is THAT the source? Bwahaha, give me a break.

I don't doubt anything anymore after Wednesday.

 

[jrcbandit]

I doubt Microsoft will change the bundle/price. It looks like it is a more of a reaction to the popularity of the 360 in the military, which would not allow the Xbox 180 if the Kinect has to be plugged in.

 

[Petrie]

These 2 consoles are going to end up quite similar when all is said and done huh?

I still think I'm going PS3 simply because when I think back to my 360, I enjoyed it, but almost every exclusive I played is on the other systems now, while the PS3 I missed out on a lot by not having one.

Who knows though. I'm incredibly torn at this point, but know I don't have time for both damnit.

 

[Xater]

Wow Microsoft back tracking on all these features is insane. No clear vision

Sounds like Microsoft to me.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

Now take Kinect out of the box, and we might have a chance to reconcile, Xbox.

 

[firen]

Sony better respond to this by requiring the Kinect for the PS4. That'll show them!

 

[Thoraxes]

All dat wasted money on Kinect integration and development.

 

[Neko Mimi Mode]

I doubt it.

Making an SKU without Kinect at a cheaper price would make too much sense.

 

[Fox Mulder]

I would rather buy one with Kinect but I can see how this would be a big point for some buyers. Personally doing that would just split the userbase and give developers even less reason to do something good with Kinect.

Not if they just stop the forced kinect policy. They can still bundle the kinect in with every xbone and design everything around it. some people just didn't want it always connected for the console to work.

 

[Ultryx]

It's still $100 more! Drop the damn price you fools! At this point the price drop should happen in another week or so (I wish).

 

[Nevasleep]

Why? It would still be the weaker, less flexible box with potentially less first-party and indie backing. It would only highlight the Xbones relative flaws compared to the PS4.

I think Forza, GoW and Halo would sell the Xbox to US and UK consumers.

 

[Mass Effect]

Wow, if this is true talk about backpedaling. Xbox 180 indeed.