Sales of the Xbox One have doubled in the US following Microsoft's decision to drop the Kinect as a core product and lower the price



From Techradar:

With the Xbox struggling against its rival the PlayStation 4 in the early skirmishes of this generation's console war, Microsoft needed to act, and the about-turn on how critical Kinect was appears to have worked. In harness with a price drop for the SKU with Kinect, the Xbox One has seen a surge in sales - with a release from Microsoft quoting figures from internal data based on retail calendar and sold through numbers.Since the new Xbox One offering launched on June 9, we've seen sales of Xbox One more than double in the US, compared to sales in May, said the company.

  Xbox One sales have doubled since Microsofts Kinect U-Turn