Microsoft announced pricing for their Kinect motion controller peripheral for the US market yesterday, and now David over at Kotaku has the local details: You’re looking at $199 for the peripheral with the bundled Kinect Adventures game.
In addition to the peripheral, Microsoft will also be offering a bundle including an Xbox Slim console packing 4GB of flash memory, the Kinect and the Kinect Adventures game. It’s scheduled to launch in November, although no firm date has been set.
Kotaku’s chasing down more information from Microsoft, and we’ll be following the announcement closely as more info comes to light.
[Kotaku]
Alan
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 1:10 PMThat makes the decision not to get it all the more justified. Personally I think I will make more use of the PS3 Move (or wii HD)
MDolley
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 1:52 PMTo me the Move is much more expensive. The starter kit is around $98 and that only includes 1 controller and demo games. You have to pay an extra $48 for the navigation controller, and some games demoed have even required two full controllers adding an extra $68.
StevoTheDevo
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 1:18 PMI have the Dolphin Wii emulator up and running nicely on my HTPC if I ever feel the need/want to flail around like an idiot…
Cost me $50ish for the Wiimote, dead easy to set up plays just like a Wii.
Flux
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 1:42 PMI agree – too damn much for a piece of ‘casual’ hardware… Who will they be selling these to?
Devz
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 1:51 PM150.00 USD = 171.571 AUD
Whats the point in having currency rates, when companies just pick random pricing for regions anyway?
If anyone is interested, they will probably hold off until its cheaper, thus reporting to MS/investors that theres not much interest, inturn slowing down development of titles, just as people start to buy it at a peripheral price.
Microsoft, when will your marketing team get a clue?
Glenn Taylor
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 2:40 PMYou are however forgetting about import costs. It’s not free to have thousands of these units shipped and distributed across Australia.
I ordered my Kindle from Amazon, it was $190 US, but it cost me $240 AUD because it incurred a $25US shipping charge.
Kinect is going to weigh more than a Kindle.
attila
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 2:43 PMDo we have to have this discussion every time hardware is priced.
The US price doesn’t include the different sales taxes and various other things that are charged depending on which state you are in – wheres the Australian price does include the 10% GST.
Plus, currencies fluctuate minute to minute and trend up and down.
Daniel
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 2:52 PMCurrency rates change. So instead of changing the price of the device every day based on exchange rates, they hedge their bets. Also that US price doesn’t include their sales tax, the Australian price does.
The Gremlin
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 2:20 PMSeems to me Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place. The hardware itself is not that expensive so the only reason for the price has to be research costs.
Looks to me as if they spent too much in research and now will try to recoup with a price that is far too high for the target casual audience. Hardcore gamers are not going for this (no matter what MS says), they all tried the Wii to a collective “meh”.
I can’t see this widely supported in say, a year.
Jonathan Gilmour
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 4:45 PMWhat does the 4GB mean on the box…? 4GB of storage on the Kinect?
AshMan
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 5:35 PM4GB is the size of the inbuilt memory of the console. It’s the replacement for the Arcade system.
Sp4nKy
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 5:39 PMThat Xbox slim is aparently the new arcade with 4gig flash memory in it instead of the normal xbox with the harddrive.
moloko
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 4:48 PMSounds about right for RRP
I’d rather pay $199 for a piece of hardware than for controllers like on Move and Wii
How much is a wii with 4 controllers + numchucks