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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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The lack of a hard drive meant that, for a long time anyway, downloadable content was limited to what could fit on a memory card. In addition, developers could (as I follow it) not develop games that assumed the hard drive was there, which affected game performance.
The core/arcade skus have always been sort of a "cheating" way to say that you can start using the Xbox 360 under a certain price point, which irks people. The initial release of the core was $299 which put it under the magic price point for people, and even today the arcade release's purpose is to be price competitive with the Wii.
Conversely though the lack of a guaranteed hard drive has proven good in some ways - look at how Devil May Cry 4 on the PS3 required a mandatory and lengthy 5GB install but on the 360 you could play it instantly.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/2/6/
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