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by Xav de Matos, Jul 20, 2010 9:30am PDT
Microsoft has confirmed longstanding rumors that its upcoming motion-based peripheral Kinect will retail for $150 when it launches on November 4. Kinect will come bundled with Kinect Adventures, one of the mini-game collections featured during Mircosoft's E3 media briefing.
Alongside the pricing announcement, Microsoft revealed a $200 Xbox 360 "S Model," which includes 4GB of internal storage. According to Joystiq, the new model will go on sale on August 3 in North America. Microsoft is also bundling the new, less expensive model with Kinect for $300. The internal storage, along with the ability to use up to 32GB of USB storage on the console makes the Arcade model infinitely more attractive than it has in the past.
Speaking with Joystiq, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg said first-party Kinect software (including Harmonix' Dance Central) will be priced at $50, although retailers have priced third-party software for the peripheral at the (now) standard $60 price-point. Microsoft promises that consumers who pre-order Kinect or the hardware bundle "today" will receive a token to download three exclusive levels for Kinect Adventures.
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Put this beside Zune and Kin. Another failure.
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To me it just seems like too little, too late for the 360.
However, if they drop it down to $100 and port it over to the PC so that I can gesture at my computer to play music, stop and rewind/ fast forward movies in Media Player, switch between internet tabs with the wave of my hand... then this may just be something special.
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I blame SEGA for exorbitant pricing of peripherals. Freaking 32X was nearly $160 by itself. The SEGA CD, just the add-on itself, was
Three.
Hundred.
Dollars.
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I bought one of the new 360's and I'll probably get Kinect.
This isn't probably for the 'hardcore' puppies out there but more for the casual with a family that has to split his game time w/ the family.
A gamer is a gamer. Regardless if your wiggling your joystick at the screen or your legs. Should be fun.
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If I buy one then first thing I'll have to do is....connect my kinect to my Xbox 360. Then later I'll connect to Xbox live to update my kinect. Maybe in MP games I'll connect to a kinect server.
Yea anyways it better be fun to pet tigers.
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It's not for me, either.
But people will continue to make games that don't use this motion control stuff. And maybe one day, many decades from now, someone will figure out how to make a motion control game that's actually good on its own, instead of "it's good for a game crippled by stupid, pointlessly gimmicky controls."
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Price-wise, I can see this selling at Holiday time and that's about it.
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