Kinect-less Xbox One Not Selling Suprisingly Well

http://n4g.com/news/1510969/two-days-in-kinect-less-xbox-one-pre-orders-arent-exactly-selling-like-hotcakes-at-major-retailers

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The Xbox One option without Kinect has been made available for pre-order exactly two days ago. Is it going like the proverbial hotcakes? Not exactly, at least not on Amazon and GameStop in North America and Europe.

On the North american branch of Amazon the new camera-less console is currently ranked 103rd, actually beaten by the option with Kinect (89th) and the Titanfall bundle (33rd).

Things are going a bit better in Canada (where the new bundle is actually cheaper than a PS4). The kinect-less box is currently in 48th place, but it’s still way behind the Titanfall bundle in 13th position.

The situation gets dire in the UK, where the Xbox One without Kinect is ranked 2,489th, abundantly beaten by the Titanfall bundle (58th) and the standard edition with Kinect (128th).

In Germany things aren’t much better, with the One without the camera ranked 615th, left in the dust by the Titanfall bundle (93rd), the FIFA 14 bundle (195th) and even the standard edition (565th).

Moving on to GameStop, things get better again in the US, even if the performance is far from stellar, with the console ranked 49th. At least here it’s the best performing between its peers.

On EBGames Canada (the local branch of GameStop) I just got tired of scrolling down after 5 minutes, so I had to narrow it down to Xbox One products only, where the Kinect-less console is ranked 58th, beaten soundly by the version with the camera.

On GameStop UK the situation was very similar, and again I had to narrow the search down to Xbox One products to have any hope of finding the new option before getting too old to be able to operate the mouse wheel. In fact it was ranked dead last between the Xbox One producs.

On GameStop Italy things weren’t as dire (barely), with the Kinect-less console ranked 82nd between Xbox One products only. Again, I had to give up scrolling down to it in the general ranking.

On the other branches of the two retailers the option wasn’t available yet.

While it’s doubtless that the new Kinect-less Xbox One will help driving sales of the console to some extent, as more options are always a good thing commercially, customers don’t seem to be exactly assaulting the barricades in order to pre-order one.

Poor Microsoft. Even after trying to win the fans over, they still can't catch a break.

Well it just came out 2 days ago, i'd figure not many people are aware of it yet. That said Microsoft kinda deserves it for not doing this earlier.

The titanfall bundle is a better deal..

What Toxic said. 

Also, I think most people are waiting for E3 to decide which to go with.

RamboOnRedBull wrote:

What Toxic said. 

Also, I think most people are waiting for E3 to decide which to go with.

Or maybe people just prefer the PS4.

Mecha wrote:

RamboOnRedBull wrote:

What Toxic said. 

Also, I think most people are waiting for E3 to decide which to go with.

Or maybe people just prefer the PS4.

They might. They might not. 

A lot of people aren't interested in neither, at the moment, and seeing as most buyers for new systems are hardcore gamers, I'm certain most are waiting for E3 to see which system has the best future line-up of games.

Yeah in this country you get a far better deal if you get Titanfall and Kinect with it. Same price but those two as well. So I doubt kinectless it's getting any sales here lol

Didn't see much advertisement of it so that could be the factor.

Guys, guys
What if
Guys
Listen
Guys this
Just listen guys
What if
We make a kinectless titanfall bundle

Toxicmaniac wrote:

Guys, guys
What if
Guys
Listen
Guys this
Just listen guys
What if
We make a kinectless titanfall bundle

:O

When the 400$ option comes out, what do you guys think retailers will do with the surplus of 500$ systems?

Most likely to try to get rid of them asap to make room for the kinectless model.

R.I.P Kinect.

I don't think Kinect will be dead.

The way MS is advertising it, this 400 dollar SKU is more like the HDD-less Xbox 360 arcade model.