Has Microsoft Confirmed Kinect Price at $149?
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Although Microsoft was quick to say that the $149 price being listed by several retailers wasn’t Kinect’s final pricing scheme – they may have inadvertently confirmed it last night when it was spotted that Microsoft’s own online store is now accepting $149.99 for a Kinect pre-order. Too much money?
According to website Fudzilla, Microsoft was privately telling retailers before E3 that Kinect would sell for $149.99 – but they were allegedly not publicly announcing the final price to see how Sony would price PlayStation Move. Sony is doing some strange weird word-play to make themselves seem cheaper than Kinect. While the Move wand is only $49.99, it requires the PlayStation Eye camera (currently selling at $39.99). The Move “nun-chuck” (Sony calls it something else – but come on, it’s the Wii’s “nun-chuck”) will also cost an additional $29.99. (Although you can use the DualShock controller in place of the nun-chuck).
So, if you don’t have the PlayStation Eye camera (which would probably be most PS3 gamers), sans any bundles, Move will cost you $120 to get started. And that’s just with one Wand, mind you, whereas the Kinect camera can track multiple people and no additional remote wands are required.
We’re not endorsing either the Move and Kinect here – it’s up to you to decide if each motion control scheme is for you and if the price is right. Remember that Kinect has a lot of next-gen technology, including 3D imaging cameras and other complex things that came from Microsoft’s relatively new “Microsoft Research” division. Hence, it’s expensive.
Oh yeah – another thing. Windows expert Paul Thurrott said on the Windows Weekly podcast that Windows 8 will have support for Kinect so we can use the NUI on our computers desktop. Hop on board the Kinect train now, I suppose.
What do you think, Kinect too expensive?
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What’s up with the fuckin fanboyism? Wtf..
Move bundle with everything you just said including a heap of games is goin to be $100
There are facts.. Learn them
You want to talk about facts?
I’m not a fanboy, I own both consoles.
The $99 Sony bundle will include the PS Eye camera and the wand itself – but not the nunchuck. Those who purchase that bundle will be forced to use the DualShock controller in place of the nunchuck.
And you should learn some manners. You wouldn’t talk to somebody like that in person.
Ell, I’ll chime in here. For a start I simply won’t tolerate my team being spoken to in such a fashion – if you want to write such comments go someplace else. If, on the other hand, you want to hit us with reasoned arguments in a mature fashion, we have no issues with that.
Just to be clear, we have no issues with people disagreeing with posts or even taking exception to them but we expect everybody, be it the team or readers, to show at the very least base respect for one another. Is this too much to ask?
Get some manners, my friend, or take a long walk and don’t come back.
While, perhaps, the tone of ell’s statement is extreme, he does have a point. You make the claim, “We’re not endorsing either the Move and Kinect here”, (the “and” should be “or”) yet your tone and vernacular suggest the opposite. An example of this is where you say, “Sony is doing some strange weird word-play to make themselves seem cheaper than Kinect”. This wording seems to suggest that it is your opinion that sony is trying to deceive the customer and that the Move is actually more expensive than the Kinect; this is not even supported by your arithmetic which has the Move at 120 dollars and the Kinect at 149 dollars. Further, you claim that the above mentioned prices are the minimum cost in order to achieve effective use of these motion control schemes, yet you make no mention of actually purchasing a game for the Kinect. The price of a game being between 50-60 dollars this makes the Kinect at least 200 dollars. And, even further, since there are games for the move which only use the wand and not the navigation controller, (which even you admit can be replaced by a dualshock/sixaxis that a consumer likely already owns) actually brings the minimum cost of the Move to 100 dollars.