Microsoft Stares Down Their Last Xbox One Hurdle, $499

Forbes: Obviously this would be a big loss for Microsoft’s grand strategy. They’ve maintained for years now that if people only owned a Kinect, they could never live without it afterward. With the Xbox One, they were just going to outright force people to buy one, and then subsequently make people use it by requiring the Kinect to be active in order to use the rest of the functions of the console. It’s kind of a dirty trick, but at least for a lot of consumers, it probably would have worked.