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Kinect Launches November 4 in North America

The pitch was made this afternoon.

Today, at its E3 press conference, Microsoft announced that Kinect is launching on November 4 in the North America alongside fifteen compatible games. No price details were announced, but some retailers are beginning to publicize speculation that the hands-free device will launch at $150. 

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Based on the games shown during the press conference, and the amount of  time devoted to the Kinect experience, are you guys sold on the hardware? Are you interested in purchasing the game this holiday? And, based on the conference, how much should Kinect cost?

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Edited By Icemael

None of the games look interesting, and while the interface stuff seems kind of neat, it's not something I'd pay more than $20-$30 for. And I really doubt Kinect will launch at anywhere near that price.

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Edited By MercuryCrusader

I'm sure it will see just as much use and support as that camera accessory.

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Edited By Poost

I was hesitant to pay any attention to Kinect.  But I was pretty impressed with how well it showed at the Microsoft presser.  I think the price of the unit will make or break the Kinect.

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Edited By Crono

Definitely not going to be an early adopter for this.  I will wait to see how it plays out before considering.

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soo many things looked :/

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Probably buy it.

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Edited By Roboyto

was thoroughly unimpressed by what they showed at the conference. the navigation stuff especially seemed just "meh." lack of a price announcement as well makes me think that maybe that $150 stuff was true which puts this firmly in the Hell No category for me

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Edited By SirBlimE

Overall i felt it was a bland conference.. And Kinect, was in no way impressing. liked the shape your body interface... but that wasn't even Ms.

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Edited By The_Philosopher

I might get it if it's not too costly. I'm more excited to see Playstation Move. Regardless I'm gonna wait and see how this stuff actually plays because as the Wii taught me a bunch of models that are trained can make it look much easier and funner then it actually is. Although Dance Central looks awesome.
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Edited By Term

Ubisoft's fitness thing and Dance Central actually impressed me with how well it tracked. Neither of those games appeal to me, but it does give me some hope for the hardware itself, assuming someone can come up with a creative way to use it.

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Edited By wefwefasdf

I can't to play with that TIger! :P

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Edited By MKHavoc

I've still got no reason to buy this.

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Edited By Vrets

as long as its less than $100 i'm getting it

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Edited By Afroman269
@Droop: You didn't miss anything too great.
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Edited By Jayzilla

So I am assuming it will cost me upwards of $100 to navigate my 360 menus sans controller and talk to firends in a skype-like way which I already do for free? Why would any of us pay a good chunk of money to do these things when we have been doing them with different technology for years. They didn't even bother to take advantage of the graphical capabilities of the 360 over the wii. Just looks like "wii-hash" of wii stuff. i couldn't resist.

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Edited By TonyBlue87

I'm still a bit on the fence, but I hereby swear that I will never talk all "OMG, go to da left!  Ok ok!  CHEEEEEESE!" as illustrated during the press conference.  That was so painful to watch.

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Edited By vegoku

no pricing = not interested yet

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Xbox 360's Wii looks micro and soft.

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Edited By PLWolf

Not saying the price was a bit off putting. Guess they didn't want to have the Sony awkwardness from the PS3 pricing announce meant. 
MS: And you get all of this for $150
Crowd: WTF?

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Edited By droop

So bummed I missed this press conference :/

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Edited By schnitz76

I hate to say it but the dance stuff is the most convincing stuff I saw for the Kinect.  The racing stuff looked totally lame (and I love racing games).  Press the "wheel" in to go faster?  Lots of meh to nah from me.

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Edited By koolaid39

While I still don't think I will pick this up, some of the menu stuff actually looked kinda neat.

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Edited By ElectricBoogaloo

Couldn't really care less. The stuff at E3 just looked like Wii clones, and even with something like Forza 3 I'd much rather play with a steering wheel. If they actually made some proper games for it it'd be tempted, but I doubt that's really going to happen when it's splitting the 360 audience. I'm sure kids and parents will enjoy it just like they enjoy the Wii, but I have zero interest at the moment.

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Edited By Tweedster

Seems interesting, but suspiciously lacking any pricing info ...

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Edited By DorianBlack

So you're saying I can use my voice to access the aspects of my Xbox that I never cared about? And play games that bear striking resemblances to Wii games that if I cared about would already be playing on the Wii I don't own? 
 
Pass.

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Edited By Lake

No way.

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Edited By Jon_Danger

No price announced yet?

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Edited By thekeenan

Need to know the price of it before I will make a decision. Until then I am kinda on the fence.

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Edited By CrazyCannuck

I haven't seen much yet so I will hold my judgement.

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Edited By super_machine

The moment someone figures out how to mod kinect to a PC there is going to be a flood of Pornkinect titles. Just you wait and see.

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Edited By rentfn

I might not but my Wife is going to flip out when she sees this.

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Edited By RedHatDrew

If it's fun, I'll buy it.
 
There either aren't enough in-store demos of new stuff, or I don't go to Toys 'R Us as much as I used to.
 
Possibly both.

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Edited By bjorkkis

if the price is right and some must-have-game is released

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Edited By killerewok

Don't know about Kinect, looked like there was a good 1-2 second delay between movements and the screen...

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Edited By Hashbrowns

They show Gears of War 3, Halo: Reach, MGS: Rising, and people still can't wait to express how dissapointed they are.  The show wasn't the second coming, but really what are people expecting out of E3 conferences?
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KInda disappointed there's no pricing information yet.

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sweet

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Everything shown for Kinect looks like garbage and even with the downgrade in its power they were unable to price under $100 so I'm vastly unimpressed!

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Edited By AdVanced

We'll see.... 
I kinda wanted to see some more 'game' games.
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Sooner than I expected.  Looking forward to it.

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Edited By metal_mills

$150 for 15 Wii like shovelware games? No thanks.

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Fuck it.

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Seems like they're building up a huge feature list to justify a high price, but we'll see I guess.

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Dance Central seems pretty rad.

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Edited By avantegardener

Meh, still early days for its develpment, won't be getting my cash till I see the must have 'killer App'.

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Voice-controlled netflix & what else

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Edited By PhatSeeJay

Hmm.. I'll probably get it bundled with the new 360. Can't be bothered to buy it stand-alone.    
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I couldn't care less about Kinect.

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Edited By Danteveli

what a pile of crap is this Kinect. I will stick with my Wii for that type of games.

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Edited By MisterMouse

a lot of it seems very wii-ish right now, nothing "hardcore" (for lack of a better word)