Basically telling their fans "-blam!- you, you're playing with what we give you." Kinect must be connected at all times. System must be on at all times, even if not being used. System must have a constant connection to the internet (my breaking point). 100$ more expensive because of the kinect. A bunch of functions I don't care about as a gamer, like skype or Sports. No increasing the size of the hard drive. These are just a few of the things they tried to push on their consumers. a lot of them got reversed, but the fact that they tried in the first place makes them un-trustworthy to me. Also it is basically back-handing all the early adopters who didn't want the kinect by saying "oh, yeah, it's not actually required. you can even buy versions without it for a 100$ less". They backpedaled too much to the point that it hurt every consumer.