Kinect With Kinect Adventures To Hit This November At $150

It is really weird timing to bring out a add-on like this 5 years into the 360's life.  Coming out so late, Kinect really needed to hit the ground running with lots of great games. Instead it's all Wii-Clones, free XBLA Arcade titles with motion controls tacked on, and lots of Dancing and Fitness junk. 5 years into the 360's life, MS wants core gamers to trust them that untitled, unannounced good games are coming, maybe on some vague date in 2011? MAYBE? 
 
Is there anyone out there that would NOT take the under that a new MS console will come out by 2013? Even under the best circumstances (Kinect launch sells millions of units despite a terrible game line up, good 3rd party games are green lit, they start coming out very end of 2011/first half of 2012) Kinect doesn't seem to have a bright or long future. MS BETTER make the current Kinect the standard motion tech for their next system too. If the Xbox 720 games are running on Kinect 2, leaving Kinect adopters with dead tech so soon after launch, then MS learned nothing from the latter SEGA years.

No.

As much as I try to not get used game hardware at places like Gamestop, at least with the game being bundled with the hardware means that the used hardware of kinect should be in the $60-80 range I'm guessing which is at least a bit more affordable compared to the PS move depending on how many of the controllers you need.

my local gamestop priced their kinect games at 59.99 :\

Microsoft must be color blind. Those colors are horrendous. Purple, dark blue, silver, neon green, white.. matches the black console + grey/silver platinum hits boxes perfectly. 
 
They need to keep it simple. Nintendo is pure white (and silver) on everything. Sony is pure black + red greatest hits.

wow

MS really should wait to overprice their stuff next generation, they should've viewed this generation as being a drug pusher, lowering their price to try to get people a taste.  I don't think a company can pull off the mid generation re-launch.  Not when people that want a motion controller probably already bought the Wii.    I'm sure MS will market the hell out of the thing and put demo kiosks everywhere, but they've made their uphill climb rougher than it needed to be.   
 

I wouldn't have a problem paying $150 if Microsoft shows some real games. And I still baffled by the appeal of Dance Central.

We already knew this, of course, but I guess it's good they made it official...?
 
Way too much money for way too little.

GOOD:                                                                                                BAD:
Kinect gets a pack-in for $150  --- KA is pretty lame / Dance Central is only decent Kinect game
                                               
Games are $50 instead of $60   ----  $40 Move games, Aside from DC, Kinect games look cheap

Arcade/Kinect saves $50 bucks ----- Screws older models with HD looking to be upgraded
 
Arcade includes WiFi --------4GB not enough for many LIVE features/would trade WiFi for 20GB HD

If there is some kind of trade in promotion for the $300 bundle I may go for it. Not that I'm really excited about Kinect, it's just been soooo long since I've bought new hardware.
 
$150 is a dumb price for Kinect. People can easily snag a Wii for that, and the Wii has more cache with the general public. $99 would have put it in impulse range.

I can already smell the stench of terrible failure emitting from Kinect.  If a grandma (or a family) has a Wii, they aren't going to rush out to buy a whole new system with a whole new gadget, even if it's better or different.  Grandma doesn't keep a video game budget...she just has her one system, probably doesn't even know there are OTHER systems, and will be content with bowling in Wii Sports for the rest of her days.  "Casual" means they don't buy everything, even every "casual" game on the system they already own.  God knows they won't drop down another $150.
 
If it sells well at all, it will be because of the inquiring minds at Giant Bomb and some of the people like us.   That'll be all.  Microsoft will issue a press release calling it the "Biggest Success in the Entirety of the Concept of Successes!" but then we'll all watch it shrivel up and die a very quick death.

So much for " it's just a placeholder ".    

wow, i honestly thought they were smarter than that...

" 100 pound difference compared to PS Move... just for a shitty camera. no thankyou. "

Want it, but don't have the room for it, will probably go for the 3DS if there are any good non-manga/anime games for it.

ill save my money for a 3DS :) 

man, all that hype and this is what they deliver. how sad, kinect will suck.

Well I won't be getting it. I don't think any kind of announcement would have done it though. 
 
Maybe if it was, "Kinect and all the "Kinect games" that were shown at E3 for $150". Which I didn't see happening. Even then, it would collect dust after the first week like my Wii is.

Until I see proof that this works at a kiosk, I'm not going to ever bite on it. Even if it does work, why would I want this garbage for? I play my games sitting down. Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort got old very fast. Most of my favorite Wii games require next to nothing in waggling and gestures. 
 
I still can't understand why anybody finds Dance Central exciting, I guess they are DDR veterans who finally want a dancing game where they can do whatever they want.

100 pound difference compared to PS Move... just for a shitty camera. no thankyou.

" @MysteriousBob said:

" That's not so bad.  Wait, that's HOW much in GBP? Screw that. "

It'll be most likely £150 in GBP also, at best £120. Oh economics... "

 Considering that the $150 price point nets you the Kinect, which can be used by 2 players simultaneously as well as the pack-in game, it doesn't seem too bad to me. 

Where are all the people that were absolutely certain that Microsoft wouldn't sell Kinect for more than $100, at most?

" owch MS.. 
 
i really thing people are going to have an issue paying 150 for it.

" That's not so bad.  Wait, that's HOW much in GBP? Screw that. "

owch MS.. 
 
i really thing people are going to have an issue paying 150 for it. 
 
@Keavy_Rain said:

" I wonder why they're bundling it with the Arcade unit, as I'd like to get Kinect but I want a 250GB HDD with it. To be honest, the bundle is a better deal at $50 less than buying the console and Kinect separate, but I want my HDD. "

Thanks Microsoft, but no thanks.

I would not be surprised, depending on preorder numbers, if Microsoft wouldn't offer additional pack ins or free games with purchase when it comes out.

I've already set $150 aside, so I'm still jazzed about this! Free Kinect Adventures gamerpoints, at least?

Hmmm... not bad in terms of bundles... but definitely not good as the price is concerned. But I will say that I'll definitely buy this... if the price goes down.

I wonder why they're bundling it with the Arcade unit, as I'd like to get Kinect but I want a 250GB HDD with it. To be honest, the bundle is a better deal at $50 less than buying the console and Kinect separate, but I want my HDD.

That's not so bad. 
 
Wait, that's HOW much in GBP? Screw that.

aim for the wii market
charge twice as much
how did we fail?

Apparently some of the Kinect games will have day one DLC? What?

This will end in tears and probably force them into putting out a new console before any of us what them to shit........

Microsoft is still forgetting the games for their gaming peripheral.

sorry...but thats too expensive ms

Too much.
 
There should also be three or so different pack in game options, ranging from more family oriented stuff to Dance Central.

Ill pass for now at that price.

$150 for a glorified PlayStation Eye.   No thanks MS.   
$50 for a collection of Mini Games that haven't been shown working flawlessly.  No Thanks MS. 
$200 for a system that I'm gonna need the eventual $100 HDD upgrade for.  No Thanks MS. 
 
 
I believe that's 3 strikes.  I'm out.

Its not worth the price for me until I see some games that I'm interested in.

$50 is better than $60 I guess.