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A Standalone Xbox One Kinect Will Cost You $150

Microsoft to begin shipping standalone Kinects on October 7.

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Since Microsoft decided to remove Kinect from every Xbox One, thus allowing a price drop from $499 to $399, we've been wondering when the company would offer the option to purchase a Kinect separately. The answer is October 7, and it'll cost $149.99.

Microsoft will bundle Kinect with Dance Central: Spotlight, which features 10 songs.

While $149 might induce some sticker shock, Kinect for Xbox 360 launched at the same price in November 2010. That device went on to become a hit, but it seems unlikely the same is in store for Kinect on Xbox One, a device Microsoft seems to be moving on from.

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What a fucking joke.

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@wafflestomp said:

The new Kinect is neat and it is way more powerful than the PS4 camera, I don't know why anyone would be shocked by the $150 price point. I wish MS would have just dropped the price to $399 with the Kinect and try to make it up somehow. Removing it makes it irrelevant...sadly.

I'm not sure I would say it's "more powerful" than the PS4 camera, since they clearly implement motion tracking differently. It's like saying my digital alarm clock is more powerful than my quartz wall clock. Sure the former probably is "more powerful" when you consider the technology it uses compared to the latter, but they both tell time in their own way, and the latter has no problem telling me the accurate time.

I would say the original PS3's Eye handled tracking better than the Kinect because the camera knew how to track the motion controller, while the Kinect would occasionally have problems tracking your body. The new Kinect is clearly more powerful than the first Kinect, since it's supposed to be able to pick up your motions better.

The PS4 camera does voice control just fine, and where it is lacking in this area is not due to the power of the hardware, but how they've integrated it into the OS and apps (or lack of integration, as the case may be within some apps). I picked one up on sale to fiddle with it to see if it made sense for me to pick a Kinect bundle once (if) I get an Xbox One. It confirmed that I don't want a Kinect to control the console with my voice.

I know it contains more tech in it than the PS4 camera, but they've priced it too high as an add-on when there aren't any games to justify its purchase for me.

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Who the hell would spend $150 extra for a peripheral that still doesn't work as intended?

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$150?

Bwahahahahahahaha... no wait I'm sorry I didn't mean to... wahahahahahahahaha... that is a ridiculous price. They might sell more Xones now but if I were one of the developers working on a kinect game right now I would be pretty bummed out.

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Microsoft should have just gone full retard and charged $200 for it, essentially guaranteeing its demise. That way, no one would have to worry about not having one if there was ever a game that came out for it that was worth a damn. No one would be making games for it, because no one would have it...as it should be. I don't say that as a means of insulting anyone that has one and enjoys it, but all I can think about when I here about the Kinect and games being made for it, is how all the time and money devoted to it could be better used elsewhere.

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Will people who buy it without Kinect really turn around and buy one for that price? Pretty crazy thought.

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it sucks for the people that made kinect only games xbox really shafted these guys bigtime

To be fair, NOBODY WANTED THE KINECT. Those games weren't going to sell in any case. Harmonix/Rare do good work, well, Harmonix does, but sticking themselves to an addon a generation after the addon craze disappeared was a bad choice.

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@honkalot said:

The bundle will still be sold right?

Of course it's more expensive than the bubdle! Bundles are always cheaper, that's like half the point!

I don't think you or anyone else have to worry about bundles being discontinued (even if they are eventually) when Day One editions are still being sold on Amazon. And for a whopping 99 cents off right now. Get one today!

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sounds like a bullshit inflated number to justify their insistence on the thing in the first place and to try and push all the bundled units still sitting out there.

This.

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@amikron said:

It is a more advanced piece of hardware than the 150 dollar kinect unit sold in 2010, as the article states. Why is anyone surprised by this exactly?

Because the laws of market supply and demand would suggest the Kinect should be sold for a rebate of $10 (haha). Seriously, someone in sales didn't get the message that no one wants the Kinect and that because of that they have two real choices, sell at a loss and make up the cash on games or just stop making and selling Kinects.

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So, at least Kinect is dead, now.

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You know what...

If Xbxo One talked to you and sounded like a women (Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Mila Kunis, Charlize Theron, Kristen Schaal) or a man (Aaron Paul, Jemaine Clement, Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Alec Baldwin, Will Arnett, Chris Hemsworth, Morgan Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, or Aaron Paul BITCH...and we were told that the Kinect had the speech processor doing it we would have all bought Xbox One.

The problem with Kinect is it did very little people needed or wanted. It has no hook...sounding like Scarlett Johansson or Morgan Freeman woudl have been a huge hook if the machine said something interesting with some primitive AI subroutines.

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I think I'd want mine to talk like Rhys Darby or Jemaine Clement.

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150$ for something you hardly use? WTF

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Hahahahahahahahahah.

No.

I mean, it's an awesome remote control for netflix. But.. no.

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@caesius6: Yep, calibrated it correctly, multiple times. I've seen others say it works for them to an extent (though they're often Xbox fan boys), and others say it doesn't. I did everything correct, and it's not great. I'm not complaining about it just to complain, or hate to hate, I legitimately dislike it for understandable reasons. I feel like you like it for some reason; maybe it works for you, or it works for you about the same, and it doesn't bother you, I have no clue, but in my experience, in more ways than one, it just doesn't work that well, nor is it ideal compared to the alternative with just a controller. Don't just assume I say it doesn't work because I dislike it as if I have some bias; if it worked well, I may be more into it. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure my Kinect isn't defective. I'm positive I'm not just "plain incorrect".

It sounds like you're defending it more out of bias than actual love for the Kinect, I don't know... I don't know of anyone that has gotten it to work well. The voice recognition isn't perfect, so you sometimes have to say it over and over, even if you are speaking clearly, and after one or two times that it doesn't get it, it becomes pointless, so it's easier to use the controller. In the games I've played, like Dead Rising 3, it's dumb and somewhat distracting even to shout out at bosses, and useless to get zombies' attention with it. I also found it easier to simply press B really quickly whenever grabbed by a zombie compared to shaking the controller which actually takes more time. The funnest I've had with the Kinect was watching my brother play Zumba fitness, and it wasn't even me doing it. It was funny to see him do it, and at times the Kinect not recognizing.

I don't think I'm in the minority either with how well it works, so don't act like I'm trashing it to trash it, or that I'm wrong. It's ignorant and somewhat offensive. I gave it a chance, and I have good reason for not liking it. If I were to put a price on it, I'd say it's $40 bucks worth. That's just what I would want to pay for it if I didn't have one already, and if I actually wanted one. The person that wanted to use it most, my brother (not the one that played Zumba), doesn't even use it because it's not that great to use.

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Kinect is so dead to me that all I read was A Standalone Xbox One will cost $150, and I got excited

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@caesius6 said:

@lmitchell8075 said:

@substance_d: That is the point.

It's actually incredible the amount of people that don't understand this, and are mad that it's not the same price. Cost of production and everything aside, bundles are cheaper because they're bundles. There's a positive to buying them that way. If you decide you don't want part of it now, then in the future do, you shouldn't expect to pay the same. The existence of the bundle is even pointless at that point.

Exactly what i was thinking reading the comments in this thread!

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R.I.P. Kinect.

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Yah they should definitely lose money on this and price it lower, that's how business works after all.

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The bundle will still be sold right?

Of course it's more expensive than the bubdle! Bundles are always cheaper, that's like half the point!

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@lawgamer said:

Really, this tweet pretty much sums up the state of the Kinect. If you're Microsoft and people aren't even willing to steal your peripheral, it might be time to re-evaluate the level of demand.

THIS.

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Priced to fail.

I bet they sell hundreds.

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I admire the technology, but have little use.

Pricing no surprise.

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well pffffffffft to that

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What an epic fail the camera is. The kinect I have on w/my launch One is mostly just irritating. WTF were they thinking? I get it to some degree but the planning and vision was so shallow and under committed on obviously. Death impending for this bit of tech I'd guess. Instant nostalgia I'd sadly also hazard.

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So buying the two devices separately is more expensive than the bundle by $50. Right. Sure.

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nice work, M$. im sure it'll be flying off the shelves...

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I'm buying Dance Central: Spotlight on Tuesday.

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I feel like this version of Kinect actually has (...had?) tons of potential, but Microsoft is doing everything in it's power to make sure it's just as big as a joke as the 360 Kinect.

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80 dollars on Ebay right now. This is stupid.

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@ajroo said:

@corruptedevil: Oh....my bad, he will charge me $1 like 6000 times with microtransactions. Ha.

He left Microsoft to be the new CEO of Zynga so yeah, he will.

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@corruptedevil: Oh....my bad, he will charge me $1 like 6000 times with microtransactions. Ha.

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It's like they took a big "Fuck this platform" stamp and used it on kinect.

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Good call Microsoft, make the value proposition of your console net worse than it was before. Gotta keep em guessing.

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I think it's not too bad when you consider that it's bundling a new game with it. I was honestly expecting something like this anyway. If they made it 99 dollars, then what's the difference between buying a Kinectless-X1+ Kinect and the Kinect X1 bundle? Of course it is going to be more expensive than 99 bucks because they want people to look at the Kinect X1 bundle, too, and makes more sense that way.

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Microsoft is kinda shooting at its own foot with this price. If the price would be lower then people might actually be tempted to buy it.

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Microsux gotta make that money back somehow. But it wont be this way.

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Goddammit what I wouldn't give to hear the conversations between Harmonix and Microsoft these days.

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@ajroo said:

Who was in charge of creating the Kinect and who decided to make it the foundation of Microsoft's console marketing for a couple of years? I need to know so i dont hire them to mow my lawn....because....obviously they are no longer working for Microsoft, and two, they will charge me 6000 bucks.

Don Mattrick

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Obviously they had to sell a stand-alone Kinect if it's no longer going to be required. Anyone who thinks that this spells the end for Kinect clearly hasn't been paying close enough attention. Microsoft stopped giving a damn about the Kinect a while ago. They're not selling this at $150 to get more consumers to buy Kinect; they're putting it at that price so if anybody ever did choose to buy it they would make a profit on it. It would be dumb of them to make it cheaper than $99 since that would devalue the Kinect Bundle and they would end up taking an even bigger hit on this peripheral that not many people want.

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Thats crazy talk.

I have a feeling you wont have a problem getting one, if you decide that the $150 in your pocket is trying to kill you and must be dispatched, at some point in your mental breakdown.

Who was in charge of creating the Kinect and who decided to make it the foundation of Microsoft's console marketing for a couple of years? I need to know so i dont hire them to mow my lawn....because....obviously they are no longer working for Microsoft, and two, they will charge me 6000 bucks.

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I'm glad I already have one, because if I didn't already have one, I would never get one.