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XBOX HAS DECIDED to release a cheaper Xbox One without Kinect on June 9th, pricing it at $399, putting it in the same price range as the PS4.
Despite saying that all Xbox One consoles will have Kinect included when it was launched, Microsoft has now decided that releasing one without the motion sensing device is the way to go.
Every market where the Xbox One is now available will receive the new version while a standalone Kinect for the console will be released during Autumn.
The company says that more than 80 per cent of Xbox One owners are using Kinect, with an average of 120 voice commands per month on each console.
Alongside this announcement, Microsoft also revealed it will be making changes to its Xbox Live service. The company has dropped the requirement for an Xbox Live Gold subscription for streaming apps meaning both Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners can access apps like Netflix, Skype, and Internet Explorer directly.
In a video announcing the change, Microsoft’s head of Xbox, Phil Spencer said that the new Xbox One is a response to feedback given by fans, but will continue to work on Kinect.
We’ve also heard from people they just like to play games with a controller in their hands…we’ll continue to innovate on Kinect. It’s an important differentiator for us. but I also know there are people out there that want to make the choice when they want to make it.
Alongside this announcement, Microsoft also revealed it will be making changes to its Xbox Live service. The company has dropped the requirement for an Xbox Live Gold subscription for streaming apps meaning both Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners can access apps like Netflix, Skype, and Internet Explorer directly.
The current Xbox One with Kinect is currently on sale here for €499, €100 more than the PS4, and it’s expected the new version will retail for €399 when it arrives.
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The word in the local neighbourhood is it’s the “Cream Crackers” that’s doing the damage, was the same again a few weeks ago. Sure why not?, this culture is vital to the Irish public and must be protected at all cost.
@Alberto Balsam: they cudabean elocucted at that boss. Them lines wooden b copper, more like a galvanised steal!
@Alberto Balsam: Taking the biscuit again. Ballybrack Says No (to work and mortgages) likely culprits. Rob everything.
@Alberto Balsam: Of course that’s the word locally. Never seen an area yet that will blame their own. It’s always someone else.
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: Not me,I work,I have a mortgage,looks like you fell flat on your face with that one,yet again.
@P. V. Aglue: pity they weren’t
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: I live in Ballybrack, had a mortgage, paid it in full 20 years ago when I was 33, don’t tar the majority with the few.
@Andrew Giles: in fairness.
With the lot in the government we are heading steadily backward.
@Lei tatt: were we ever moving forward under the governments we have had over the decades..
@Lei tatt: that’s individual behaviour
@Lei tatt: which government TD chucked the shipping trolley on to the wires.
@paulie: shopping.
@paulie: at this stage I’d say they’re all suspects.
What time is yer man from the airport meltdown due in court? Can’t wait to hear the excuse….
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: Lukas Kaunietis of no fixed abode. Would that be Lithuanian then?
I wonder was it vandalism or was it crime, i.e. theft of the cables. Not that vandalism isn’t a crime.
@Rob Goodbody: shopping trolley rob.
@Rob Goodbody: was a problem in the UK for years. Remote stretches of motorway between junctions, where cables for street lights were regularly liberated
and Irish Rail can’t deliver the rail line from Athenry in Galway to Collooney in Sligo to civilised people in the Western seaboard.
More CCTV’s required and more security.
Oh. Not Pantograph Bliss then. Shocking.
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: Does the Journal pay your mortgage?
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