News has broken through to state that Microsoft Xbox One will now be sold without the Kinect. This comes as a response to the influx of comments and requests from current Xbox owners. Initially Microsoft only wanted to sell the Xbox Ones as a complete premium bundle, but in an effort to be more competitive against Sony’s PS4 this is what they have done.

The premium version of the Xbox One bundle will still be sold and stocked by retailers although they will now also stock the basic version whereby the console just comes by itself. This is mainly targeted at Xbox gamers that do not feel the need to make use of the Skype, or voice control capabilities or just simple do not have the space to fully utilise the Kinect.

At the same time Xbox have done this they have also opened up the Silver online membership to include the video streaming apps like Netflix that used to be part of the Gold subscription package.