It might be a situation where they don't have the code, kind of like the Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect. They would if they could but have no source code.

There would be a decrease in cost by the lower number of materials needed. You would also produce two parallel SKUs if you needed to produce a kinect-less version in parallel or bundling a kinect separately.

It doesn't force every user to the same model but instead gives two different alternatives

That's a non-sequitur.

Then don't reply while at work.

Except, of course, that they were NOT spot on...

You're quoting an article from September of last year, over a month before the PS4's release, and well before any outlet had their hands on the physical unit. Look up a more recent comparison that was made with actual hardware.

It's been three and a half years since the Kinect was released, and they haven't developed a killer app for it yet. Even if they came up with something today, it would still take months of marketing to make people aware of the new game that made the Kinect a system seller, and months more till word of mouth made the…

You're halfway there. The ideal price point for the Kinectless Xbox One is about $20 less than the PS4, possibly with a digital download of a free 1st party game to sweeten the pot. If they wait until there's a price drop due to improved manufacturing efficiency, they'll be so far behind that it won't matter.

Where is that number coming from? Because that's just inaccurate.

I'm saying that I'd consider buying one if it were less expensive, and the easiest way to drop the price without losing money is to package the Kinect separately. There is no functionality that it currently provides that I can't live without.

All of that is just wrong.

I'd rather have $100.

The PS4 is also outselling the Xbox One in every territory it's available in. What is your point?

Except you didn't use the data from the same day... you used a 3.5 vs 6.0 figure. That's not from the same day.

So? Who cares? Who even asked you about this?

Yeah, you're pretending that's a fact when in reality it's a matter of perspective. Yes, the Xbox has a slower GPU, but it has cloud-computing, dedicated servers and Kinect. All those require computation that the PS4 doesn't have.

Any chance of Homeworld: Cataclysm? I actually liked the story of that one more than the sequel.

Did Microsoft announce numbers for Xbox One recently? I haven't seen it if they had. Can I ask what evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the Xbox One requires Kinect? Can you show me one game or feature that Kinect makes possible that a button cannot do more reliably and more efficiently that justifies a $100 price…

I literally just said the circumstances under which I'd consider purchasing an Xbox One, since at the moment it isn't on my radar. Not for the exclusives, not for the features of Kinect. If I were "taking sides" I'd say that there was no possible scenario in which I'd purchase the system.