Kinect With Kinect Adventures To Hit This November At $150

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.

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

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

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

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.   
 

wow

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.

my local gamestop priced their kinect games at 59.99 :\

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.

No.

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.

Will not buy

I was under the impression Kinect Sports, Kinectimals and Joy Ride would all be one game. Paying $50 for each of them is ridiculous. I'm happy to pay that for Dance Central though, or whatever the UK equivalent is anyway...
 
Meh, ultimately most of us will get it eventually.

" @Andheez: $200 Wii v. $300 360 isn't too smart if you ask me. "

" $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 upgrad for.  No Thanks MS.   I believe that's 3 strikes.  I'm out. "

I already broke this, even the voucher part, in one of the comments sections of a news story  here before the name Kinect was revealed, but I can't seem to find it in my history... hmm. Deleted?
 
Well now it's double confirmed. 
 
Now I'm going to strap on my Vibrams and try to fartlek 10k without bonking .

$150 is way too expensive but $300 with the new 360 is a good deal.

" @KingBroly said:

" @Andheez: $200 Wii v. $300 360 isn't too smart if you ask me. "

I don't think the math breaks down quite like that, though. Almost every game-playing household already has a 360 in it, so it's closer to $150 vs $200, which becomes a bit more reasonable (Kinect having superior tech vs Wii having a vastly larger library).  I dunno, we can all sit here and be armchair analysts, but at the end of the day, if $150 is an absurd amount of money that nobody will realistically pay, don't you think the people at Microsoft who crunch these numbers for a living would have noticed? "

DOA at that price point. 

It's £130 in the UK with that silly wii sports rip off game. The games sell for FULL price here at £40.
 
Now the thing is if they took off the wii sports rip off and sold it on it's own for £90 I'd probably buy it, especially if i saw a game that i wanted. As it goes there forcing a game on me that i wouldn't actually accept even if it was free and over the £100 mark is just too much to ask.

Well, Kinect, I actually thought you seemed pretty cool.  Too bad you haven't got a prayer at that price point.

I may be the only one, but I'm picking this up.  I know you can play Child of Eden with the normal 360 controller, but after watching Mizuguchi play with his hands, I don't have much of a choice.  Here's to hoping for a collector's edition with white tuxedo gloves.
 
I'll get Kinect primarily for that title, and the hope that other cool games will come of it in the future.  Hope it's not a waste of money.

Dude, I hate to say it, but it looks like Kinect very well may bomb. Most people definitely won't be willing to pay $150 for this thing.

I will buy it at $99.99 which some sites say will be sooner than later. Some even say it might be as soon as xmas.

Meh, everyone pretty much knew that $150 would be the price point.  Other than for the neat Minority Report controls, I don't really care about it.

*Shrugs*  
 
I agree.  It might be worth it if Dance central was in the bundle but not Kinect Adventures. :(  

No thanks!

Ridiculous price theve messed up just as sony have with move  
 
Well at least you can get xbox arcade with kinect for $299 unliek the ps3 which is $399 for one player $450 for two player 
 
Actually comparing it to ps3 its pretty cheap

" 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. "

pass

i will buy, 
 
 
 
only when hits 100€ or less

At least we will have some AWESOME quicklooks cause of this thing, didnt expect much more to be honest... :)

150 with Dance Central would have been a sell. Not paying 200 for both.

Like I've said before, I'm pretty sure my wife is planning to buy it day one so I'm free of any need to bother worrying about it.
 
That being said, I am dying to see how my son reacts to it.

I will not waste my moniez on this.

I can't wait to see Kinect and Move fail this holiday season. I can't wait!

" @KingBroly said:

" @Andheez: $200 Wii v. $300 360 isn't too smart if you ask me. "

I don't think the math breaks down quite like that, though. Almost every game-playing household already has a 360 in it, so it's closer to $150 vs $200, which becomes a bit more reasonable (Kinect having superior tech vs Wii having a vastly larger library).

" I will buy it at $99.99 which some sites say will be sooner than later. Some even say it might be as soon as xmas. "

I guess I won't be buying it then.

Well no surprises there. I still think they need to hit $129 with a bundle before it will sell well.
 
The biggest disappointment is the $50 price tag for games. Those games are not deserving of that price and I think the sales are going to reflect that.

Not worth it. Once they realize their mistake and drop it down to 60 bucks and the games to 30 then I'll think about it.

I'll buy it, if there are more games in the vain of Dance Central and look like I'll have fun with it. As it stands, however, no thanks.

$150 is cheap,you get the sensor and the game. Good deal, will buy.

A matte finish on the 360? They should make them all like that!
 
As far as connect goes, I might buy one just for Dance Central alone. Not sure if I'll get it right when it comes out though. Maybe I'll wait til the prices drop.

" I demand a Quicklook of Ryan playing Kinectimals when it's released. "

MATTE FINISH, MATTE FINISH!!! Ugh, as somebody who traded in their Arcade to upgrade up to the 360 S (aka "squat"), I wish I had known of this.  The 360 S is an absolute DUST AND FINGERPRINT MAGNET.
 
Oh, and that Kinect thing looks pretty cool.  Might buy.

Don't quite get the negative comparisons towards Sony's PS Move price point from some people though...
 
  The Move controller, the PlayStation Eye, a game demo disc, and Sports Champions for $99.99 
+ 29.99 for the Nav. Controller....  Let's call that an even 130 smackeroos  and round it up evenly, not too mention a lot of the coolest stuff was shown with two move controllers aka plus another 50 bucks, equalling up to 180 dollars US.
 
Like I'm no market expert but eather bundle seems pricy to me. As for me I see some new fresh IP possibilities arising from this like e.g. Dance Central... Not saying people will go like " OOOOw shit let's have a kinectimals marothon...", but still there is potential and I'd rather wait and see. Won't buy it just yet, mainly because... my sister and this goes for a lot inside the "casual" demographic will eat this kinect stuff up, look at how good Nintendogs did on DS despites DS's laughable reputation pre launch... 
That's why I think the Arcade pack plus Kinect is gonna be a big seller, because you have that expansion possibilty with all the community stuff like Netflix and also the titles for X360 for the older brother whom rather likes blowing stuff up... basically the package contains something everyone can use. To me that's a sound business decision.
 
But ye it's just my opinion, like both motion controllers respectively, 'cause for me they tickle their own seperate part of fun receptors in my brain.

Quite expensive, but seriously at that price, I am not going to throw all hope of buying it on release, it is a fair price. I will need too see my money situation. I don't really want the game it comes with thou... I may just wait and hope they bundle it with Dance Central, that would be their best bet.

If it's €150, someone is getting stabbed. I'm more interested in the Move anyway...