When the Xbox one was announced there was a lot of controversy about various features, one of which was the Kinect which at the time always had to be plugged in. Microsoft went back on a lot of things during the launch stages of the console including the Kinect requirements for the console to function and then the console was released to the public. Initially all the console packages came with the Kinect but on June 9th in north America Microsoft began to sell the console without the Kinect unit and unsurprisingly they have double their sales without the Kinect unit.

Does this come as a surprise to you and would you buy the console with or without the Kinect unit?