Retailers List Kinect at $150

So much hate yet I've had many a drunken party flailing like a cripple on wii boxing

Watch Nintendo follow suit upon Kinect's release by lowering the Wii to $150. "Why buy a motion control accessory when you can buy a whole motion-centric console?"

It should automatically rage quit whatever game you're playing when it senses you throwing your controller across the room.

for that price i think i'd rather just have a wii. nothing as epic as galaxy or metroid will be released for this thing.

I'd rather buy a 32x...

Powerglove, 2010 edition.

This is not price that is going to lead to widespread adoption, sadly.

I don't know what demographic this thing targets.

If it's for the casual set (eg Mom, Grandma) they already got their Wii and won't even bat an eye towards this.

The hardcore crowd, largely, has already dismissed Kinect as a gimmick. The list of games does nothing to attract core gamers either.

The only demographic I see this thing succeeding with is the early adopters and Xbox fanboys. IMO, Xbox fanboys aren't even fanboys of the Xbox, but fanboys of Halo 3 and MW2 and cannot distinguish between the game and the console.

So that basically leaves a very small percentage of people willing to take a chance with this thing. My gut feeling is that it's going to flop, horribly. I can see gesture control during a movie being particularly cumbersome. Any unintentional movement (eg normal conversational gestures) could set the thing off and annoying viewers. If you live in a busy household, people in the background could potentially set this thing off. If you have to turn the motion gesture functionality on and off, it strikes me as particularly odd. First you have to pick up a remote, hit the motion gesture button on/off, then set the remote down and do your motions to FF/Rev the movie. Why not just do it off the remote?

So yea, 2010's fail going to be the Kinect IMO.

hey guys wanna hook up round midnight and play a game for a couple of hours where we wave our arms around and dodge bullets only for our girlfriends to wake up and watch us and thinking.."I have to rethink this relationship!"

in the meantime your crawling into a foxhole(under a coffee table) too busy to notice the disturbed look on her face!

Bringing out new control mechanisms this late into the console life is a risky move. Unless this console generation last until 2015, its hardly worth the investment. Hopefully the next generation of consoles will retain these new motion controls.

I want to like the Kinect because it seems/feels a newer idea, but wondering if its just a step in the wrong direction. But it only needs one or two games that are must play to make it seem like a nice indulgence purcahse. Not really interested in that Dance games but, that and the Rez style shooting game could make it interesting.

I guess that's about the same as the PS Eye, Move, and move addon, no? Although Sony's stuff looks to have more practical application, at least at the moment...