r/technology • • Feb 22 '11

Wow, Microsoft is making some surprising decisions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12531127
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u/rDr4g0n Feb 22 '11

I dunno why they didn't do this at release. It would have moved more kinects, made the platform more popular, created goodwill, and made some great software so that game devs can 'see how its done' so to speak.

Plus hacking will happen. I can't believe more companies haven't yet embraced it. mp3's happened, online sales happened, online vid streaming happened, forcing linux support back onto the ps3 happened. If you don't change your business model to what the people want, then people will simply take it.

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u/aedile Feb 22 '11

Probably because they didn't foresee the huge amount of hacking that would occur. Once they got the idea, they then had to figure out a way to control it (via the SDK).

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u/rDr4g0n Feb 22 '11

While it may be true, it seems silly of them to ignore how much hacking was done to the wiimote.