
Microsoft Finally Confirms Kinect Price at $150
Nothing ground breaking here, it is mostly just Microsoft confirming what all the rumors have been saying over the past several weeks. First up, Xbox Kinect will retail for $150 and will come with Kinect Adventures. They also announced a new SKU for the Xbox 360 that will cost $200. This new unit is just like the slimmed down version that is already in stores with the exception of internal storage. Instead of having the large 250GB hard drive it will have 4GB of internal storage.
On top of those two announcement, Mircosoft also detailed their new Holiday Bundle for this year. Instead of bundling a couple of 2 year old games that nobody wants they decided to bundle the Kinect. For $300, you can get the new Xbox 360 4GB with Xbox Kinect. It isn’t a huge discount but you can take that $50 you will be saving and buy Dance Central with it. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention. All the Kinect games will be priced at $50 instead of $60.
While Microsoft didn’t say anything about the current/older SKUs, I think it is safe to assume that Microsoft isn’t manufacturing them anymore. Once they are sold, they will be off the store shelves forever. I already have two Xbox 360s in the house so I don’t need to get the bundle but I think I might have to preorder a Kinect when I go down to GameStop to preorder my Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition and kill two birds with one stone.
[via Major Nelson]
Tags: Kinect, microsoft, MONEY







