Microsoft's Brett Siddons believes that Kinect for the Xbox 360 is very competitively priced, pointing out that you only need to buy one thing to get the complete experience.
The Xbox 360 Kinect price point, which is a penny under £130 (there's also an Xbox console bundle priced at £250) has raised eyebrows.
But group marketing manager Siddons, speaking at the Kinect stand at an Amazon event, told TechRadar that people should 'do the maths' when it came to counting exactly how much people fork out for the various devices to play similar games on the likes of the Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation's Move.
Perspectives
"The price thing itself depends on how you look at it," said Siddons "It's £129.99 RRP but it comes with a game within that price – so Adventures will be packed in with the camera.
"If you buy it with the console which normally costs £149.99, [the package price is] £249.99 with the Kinect and the games – another 100 pound on top.
"The camera tracks six people – with two active gamers – you don't have to buy anything else.
You do the maths
"I'll let you do the maths but when you say Nintendo Wii or PlayStation Move you buy this and this, even for a two player games.
"What do you need and what do actually have to spend for a two player game for this device versus that device. You actually find that [Kinect] is very competitively priced."
We do the maths - PlayStation Move
When you look at the RRPs, Sony's pricing for Move is a basic pack for £49.99 consisting of the PlayStation Eye Camera, move controller and a demo disc with various games.
Should you want two Move controllers and two of the nunchuk-like Navigation controllers then you would have to fork out £39.99 [CORRECTION £34.99] for the former and £29.99 [CORRECTION £24.99] for each of the latter.
That's a total cost of [CORRECTED] £135 – which does at least bear out what Microsoft is saying – although Sony might well be offering as yet unannounced packages at a later date.
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smokemonster
July 29th 2010
12. I can see myself using Move to play FPS games, yes. It potentially introduces a level of speed and accuracy only currently available to keyboard and mouse users on PC. Socom and Killzone 3 are both Move compatable, I wouldn't be surprised to see other FPS games becoming compatable.
This is where Move has the edge over Kinect; it works for games in all major genres.
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mrdjmo
July 29th 2010
11. Who cares, can you really see yourself using these to play Halo,COD,Fifa etc nope i can't so these are just little toys that will soon disapear.
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cowbell
July 29th 2010
10. It's not the price of the unit that bothers me, it's the price of the unit relevant to the breadth and quality of games I am (so far) coming to expect. I'm much more prepared to fork out the extra money for Move (already have a Wii) because the gaming experience looks like it is worth the expense. So far I see Kinect as a £130 entry fee to play a bunch of games I have absolutely zero interest in. If/when the games improve I may well reconsider, but at the moment I don't see anything worth playing over what I can already buy for my Wii.
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smokemonster
July 29th 2010
9. No, you get YOUR facts straight: UK prices:
Move pack (camera, Move and game) £49.99
Navigator £24.99
Extra Move controller £34.99
Extra Navigator £24.99
Total = £134.96
AND Move is already compatable with normal games: Toy Story 3, Tiger Woods 11, Little Big Planet 2, Socom, Buzz, Heavy Rain and Ruse
I already have the camera so it's even less for me :)
Enjoy jumping up and down in your virtual raft
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decanem
July 29th 2010
8. space requirements + lag + the inevitable problems with light will kill the kinect, not the price.
xbox owners generally like their gaming fast and frantic. all the owners i know eat and sleep CoD and Halo. This isnt for them. This is a furry, family friendly accessory for a bedroom core gamer console.
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snake82001
July 29th 2010
7. First, get your facts correct..
The price for the move is as follows:
camera=$40 US
controller=$50 US
nav controller=$30
SO for two people to play it will be $200.
Thats 2 controllers, 2 nav controllers, and one camera..
The bundle with the camera, one controller and demo disc is $100 US..
So it is cheaper to get the Kinect..period.
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dannyhulse
July 28th 2010
6. Yes but the market they are going for already have a wii which comes with a controller and now comes with TWO games (Wii Sports/Resort) where as to buy kinect i have to buy a £130 camera with a sub par mini game collection it is far to expensive and so is the PS Move for that matter but at least that looks like it will have a decent libary of games that appeal to someone other than the casual gamers
Microsoft is dropping the ball.
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1978ad
July 28th 2010
5. I'm not interested in kinect or move (having had a wii gathering dust for months) but I'm with microsoft on the price issue. Especially as the move nunchuk doesn't have motion control capabilities so some games you actually use 2 wiimotes (or whatever sony are calling them). So if you regularly have 2 players you need a total of 4 remotes + 2 nunchuks for games that use them. So if you want four player action I hope you have some rich friends!
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gibbon
July 28th 2010
4. The pricing seems reasonable in comparison to competing products. Are Sony charging such a high rate for their controller because they knew Kinect would be well over £100, or are they just doing it because they are desperately trying to make some decent money out of this console cycle?
Anyway, while many seem convinced the thing has failed before it's even been released, personally I'm going to wait til I've actually given Kinect a go before I decide it's the worst thing in the world.
There's something to be said for keeping and open mind...
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si_smith
July 28th 2010
3. Anyone can play the numbers game:
Kinect: £65 a player (max 2 players)
Move: £45 a player (max 4 players)
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si_smith
July 28th 2010
2. "The camera tracks six people – with two active gamers – "..
So thats 2 players then.....
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modjo30
July 28th 2010
1. Here's some good maths, the games for this Kinect are based round Wii games, so for £170 you could just buy a Wii and get a whole console already capable of this and on both the Wii and Sony you can play with more than 2 players at the same time and don't need a warehouse to play in so i'd say Microsoft have done their maths wrong and i wont be asking them to do my accounts for me anytime soon
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