Kinect priced at $150, includes Kinect Adventures
The question of Kinect pricing is over … insomuch as there was any question. As was widely assumed – and widely listed on retailers, from GameStop to Microsoft itself – the Xbox’s newfangled motion-sensing camera will retail for $149.99 this fall.
There’s also an answer regarding the pricing of Kinect retail software. While most stores have been listing Kinect software for the usual $60 Xbox asking price, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg told Joystiq, “All of our Kinect retail games, from a first-party standpoint – Kinectimals, Kinect Sports, Kinect Joy Ride – will all be retailing for $49.” Microsoft later followed up, letting us know that Dance Central, Harmonix’s Kinect-powered rhythm game (and arguably the most well-received title in Microsoft’s Kinect launch lineup) will also match the $50 first-party pricing.
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