Kinect priced at $150 on Microsoft's own store

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That still doesn't make it official. The MS store is taking preorders just like the rest of them, and they can't post up a lower price compared to what everyone else has until MS gives the "official" price annoyncment. They'e just following what gamestop and co have up so as not to rock the boat till the time comes.

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Oh dear. *prepares for a full showing of the MSDF* :p

I'll quote someone over on GAF: "This thing has officially been sent out to die." A sega CD for the 00's. :p

And how much does the move cost once you want to play with 4 friends which this type of casual thing is aimed at? Dont you need 2 controllers each for most games? $150 is a sweet nothing for anyone on a decent wage or the type of people looking to play this with there family once they realise there will never be any on going costs besides games.

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And how much does the move cost once you want to play with 4 friends which this type of casual thing is aimed at? Dont you need 2 controllers each for most games? $150 is a sweet nothing for anyone on a decent wage or the type of people looking to play this with there family once they realise there will never be any on going costs besides games.

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Don't drag Move in to this, once you do that this thread gets derailed quicker than a bullet train trying to do a 90 degree turn. Lets keep this about Kinect for the moment mkay?

$150 is a sweet nothing? If it wasn't 15 titles of shovelware, no core games (or support) and 1

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just dance clone from Harmonix.

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Oh dear. *prepares for a full showing of the MSDF* :p

I'll quote someone over on GAF: "This thing has officially been sent out to die." A sega CD for the 00's. :p

Who dares to insult the Mega-CD?! :shiftyninja: That certainly had its merits over something like Kinect.

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Who dares to insult the Mega-CD?! :shiftyninja: That certainly had its merits over something like Kinect.

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I've still got the promo VHS tape for it from way back when. Ah the good old days when promos were made by lunatics :D

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I've still got the promo VHS tape for it from way back when. Ah the good old days when promos were made by lunatics :D

Ahahaha, beautiful! You earned yourself a bit of rep for that, young man.

Never met another person in the world who knew of that game. :D

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Ahahaha, beautiful! You earned yourself a bit of rep for that, young man.

Never met another person in the world who knew of that game. :D

Really? My friend had it some time ago with Cobra Command, Sewer Shark and that QTE one in the car. I was truly a Sega fanboy back in the day. Well at least until I got my SNES! :p

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I still can't believe some people don't understand MS will leak prices themselves to judge on the reaction of the price.

They've already said they won't announce the price until later this year. This isn't an announcement!

Sounds like ******** to me DM. Any evidence of them doing it before? Why would you 'leak' a price on your store? I can't imagine the casual crowd lining up to pre order it. Hell the Wii queues were dead at release. There were apparently only 6 people outside at release date but that weekend. Boom, store was emptied.

Edit: "6 feet (1.8 meters) between you and your television for play space" - Coffee tables are so last generation.

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Do I have concrete proof it's what MS are doing? No because I don't work for them, but it's not some unheard tactic I am talking about either.

I suppose if it really sounds like an alien idea to you it just confirms you should never go into this type of business ;)

Also Wii queues were dead? Ha, you really do talk some utter **** sometimes. PS3 queues were dead in the UK, but definitely not the Wii. In fact, it was common for Wii queues to be formed outside shops every morning for well over 2 years in some parts of the states/Europe.

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Edit: "6 feet (1.8 meters) between you and your television for play space" - Coffee tables are so last generation.

I was actually thinking about this last night, if I even wanted to check Kinect out it would be a big pain in the arse. With my Wii I just push my coffee table up like a foot, so it leaves enough room if I need to stand, but I usually do sit when playing the Wii. In order to play Kinect, if I wanted to play it on a steady basis, my living room would literally need a complete redesign. My wife is not for having the coffee table pushed in the corner or something. :laugh:

And just to chime in, Wii lines (or queues as you crazy foreigners call them :laugh:), were indeed crazy here in the states. The first time I got my Wii I had to go to Walmart at 5 am in the morning and sit there for 2 hours, and I was 8th in line. By the time they opened the doors the line was over 20 people, and they only had something like 14 of them. This was a few months in actually. And it lasted a long time, that is why like 5 months I was able to sell my used Wii at the same price of a used one, including all of the peripherals I had purchased, and I sold them for no loss in money at all. I met some guy off Craigs list down the street from my house, he gave me cash for everything, and I immediately drove to Circuit City and picked up my PS3.

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I still can't believe some people don't understand MS will leak prices themselves to judge on the reaction of the price.

They've already said they won't announce the price until later this year. This isn't an announcement!

Good point DM.

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Yes, Liverpool was the exception to the rule. The rest of the world is clearly a different league to the almighty Liverpool.

Clearly never been to Liverpool. :laugh:

Honestly though there was a GAME, Virgin, HMV and gamestation all within ****ing distance of each other. All open at 12am. Everyone just scattered amongst the stores. Sure if we lived in the arse end of no where the queues might have been big. Like I said though come the weekend the all the stores in Liverpool, Wirral and North Wales were empty.

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I dunno if MS is leaking a price to test reaction, they could be, and it would make sense. That way you don't have to stick to something and look silly, you have room to change it if needed. That aside, retail, IMO, is just going with the higher end of the pricing spectrum from what they figure it will be. It makes way more sense to price something for preorder higher if you're going to make a guess, that way if it comes in lower officially you don't lose out. IF retail priced it lower, like $50 and it ended up being $100, then they'll have to sell it for a loss on all the preorders they take.

The smartest thing to do, as a retailler taking preorders for something you don't know the official price for or for something that's price could very well change by the time it goes on sale is to price it at the higher end of to make sure you're covered. It just makes sense.

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