GameStop gives Kinect $149.99 price

By Tom Bramwell Published 14 June, 2010

While undefined bundles go up to $399.

Whoopsy daisy! US retailer GameStop has whacked up pre-order offers for Kinect and various Kinect games, revealing that it intends to charge $149.99 for the add-on.

While its standalone Kinect for Xbox 360 listing carries that price tag, a separate "Kinect Arcade Bundle" - perhaps meaning an Xbox 360 and Kinect, or perhaps meaning a software package - is listed for $299.99.

There's also a "Kinect Elite Bundle" for $399.99. Again though, details are scant.

Microsoft has not officially announced pricing for Kinect, although it has said that the add-on will launch in the US on 4th November and the rest of the world "thereafter".

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Comments (30) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • sfp_noodle #1 2 years ago

    Even though the device itself seems to have succeeded the price makes it an utter FAIL. No-ones going to pay that much when they can use a $10 remote control to navigate their dashboard. Also, there's simply not enough interesting software for Kinetic as it stands. I'm not surprised they didn't announce pricing for the camera (yet they confirmed pricing for new 360) because they knew it would be met with a negative reaction.

  • covfan #2 2 years ago

    So that's £129 then probably.

  • ipressbuttons #3 2 years ago

    I'd rather play Gears of War 3 on my Xbox

  • Alivada #4 2 years ago

    Thats way to expensive, I was thinking at most £80/$99 around there.
    Otherwise they arn't going to sell.

  • GooseUK #5 2 years ago

    Wooooo thats far too expensive...

  • OldK1ngCole #6 2 years ago

    I'd be willing to pay £299 in a bundle with the new Xbox and that sports game.
    Edited by 1 at 14/06/10 @ 22:17

  • ronuds #7 2 years ago

    MS is going to miss a major opportunity if they price it that high.

    Dopes.

  • Vyggo #8 2 years ago

    It's the price of roughly 2 xbox 360 launch games, and it will include one game. I don't think it's too expensive. How much are 3 move controllers gone cost?

  • Widge #9 2 years ago

    Probably less than 5 move controllers.

  • andromeda #10 2 years ago

    DON'T want

  • RodHull #11 2 years ago

    I'm sold. Still gutted there's no sign of KI-nect. Come on Rare!

  • The-Bodybuilder #12 2 years ago

    Stupid MS.
    They've completely missed why the wii was successful in the first place. It wasn't super top-spec technology, it was the low-price range.

    MS, congratulations on your new mega CD.

  • RedPanda #13 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 14:31:59 28-01-2012

  • smelly #14 2 years ago

    I was interested for the excercise thingy.. but tad expensive...

  • Downside #15 2 years ago

    Eh? Wii, cheap?? You're kidding me?

    £100 with a game, I'm in... the dance game will be a nailed on hit with the kids at Christmas.
    That "Bring on the wall" show on BBC is surely a given for Kinect... it doesn't come any easier
    £250 for a bundle with the new 360 slim sometime in November I guess.

    Of course won't be popular with the "download it for free" pirate posse, but for real punters, I'd say it will gain some serious traction.

  • Kaminari #16 2 years ago

    $150 ???

    And that's without mentioning the mandatory adapter for the 360 Phat.

  • Vyggo #17 2 years ago

    Adapter? Tell me more?
    Edited by 1 at 14/06/10 @ 23:07

  • Nuronv #18 2 years ago

    @Vyggo

    The new 360 model has "Kinect Ready" which suggests that previous models are not Kinect Ready

  • busboy33 #19 2 years ago

    Sweet Tapdancing Christ, No.

    NoNoNoNoNoNo.

    Not a snowball's chance in hell I'm paying $150 just for the hardware. I want to get a Kinect, and there absolutely no way I'm paying $150.

    I pray MS aren't this stupid.

  • Wyrm #20 2 years ago

    The focus on the device is getting old. They need to show more actual games, not demos or silly Wii rip-offs. That is what can justify the price.

  • busboy33 #21 2 years ago

    @Vyggo:

    Kinect with an old 360 needs a USB plug to the console, and an external power cable -- the new 360s power the hardware directly.

    I ASSUME that the external power cable comes with the camera, but you're still going to need an extra outlet to juice it.

  • devilmyarse #22 2 years ago

    busboy33 stop making crap up.

    Moar downvotes please!
    Edited by 1 at 15/06/10 @ 04:09

  • gjgjg #23 2 years ago

    retailers ALWAYS put the top dollar price on a preorder system entry incase of worst case scenarios. try put a preorder on for pes11 theyll quote 60 or something, come the day it goes for 40 / 45. end fact :)

  • busboy33 #24 2 years ago

    @devilmyarse:

    [link url=http://www.joystiq.com/20 10/06/14/original-xbox-360-requires-separate-power-for-kinec t/
    ]http://ww w.joystiq.com/2010/06/14/origin...[/link]

    I pre-emptively accept your apology.

  • HarryTuttle #25 2 years ago

    So how's that attempt to crack into the casual games market going microsoft? What's that you say? It's prohibitively expensive and none of your target audience have really even heard of it? Well, good luck with that.

  • devilmyarse #26 2 years ago

    Doesn't matter. Nobody is going to buy it anyway.

  • icematt12 #27 2 years ago

    More things bother me than the price.

    1) How about if there is people below you and you cant jump up and down, would going from a crouch to standing have a similar result?

    2) I have a stammer, not major but needless to say with it affects me in EndWar and not that keen on chatting online. Let's see if they have made any considerations where people struggle to speak clearly.

    However, I have gone from someone sceptical about Natal to optimistic about the possibilies of Kinect in less than 12 hours. Most games didn't really impress me on the graphics front though, maybe a art choice or use of the hardware had an effect.

    An after presentation chat on gametrailers said that non-slim consoles would need an independant power supply for Kinect (man that word is hard for me to type, like my brain's instinct is that it's spelt incorrectly). Also showed that HDDs were internal, reminded me of the PS3 cradle but I doubt uses the same type of HDD.


  • Dolly #28 2 years ago

    I love my X-box, but launching this above £100 (If the speculated pricing is accurate) is just absolute lunacy. I'm not impressed with the games I've seen so far, but if the right software came along it could make it interesting to me. However, I think that £60-£70 with a new Gears or Halo game (rather than a party game) was going to be the only way to make this a real success. I fear that it will lead to a real split in the x-box platform, with developers reluctant to develop anything based on a successful franchise or anything 'different' to a family game, when potentially only (optimistically) 25-50% of x-box owners will have the hardware to run it.
    I'm not moaning that people should get things for free, but this should have been bundled with any new x-box bought after Friday for a package price of say £30 more than the current model sells on its own, and should have been discounted to any existing x-box owner with gold membership (These people are most likely not pirates, and are most likely to already use live to purchase paid content). Consider it a 'Thank you' to those who already friendly and familiar with their brand. Better for them to take an initial hit on the hardware to mass-integrate it in to peoples homes, than have half your audience excluded from future game sales. Once these are in peoples homes, then launch games kinetic games for under a fiver on Live that will sell like hotcakes to recoup the losses (can be granny-friendly party games, or live arcade type games for the 'hardcore' massive). Once they had the majority of X-box owners owning the hardware, then developers would feel a lot better about using it to work on games with bigger budgets and development cycles, rather than vapourware.
    Either way, you can't say that things aren't at least interesting in the videogame world right now! Very much looking forward to see how Sony pitch Move now.

  • brseg #29 2 years ago

    At xmas, its going to be a hard sell asking people to spend the equivalent of 3 xbox games on this new device. I'd prob have one for a laugh, but without a killer game, I'd be back to the normal controller games pretty soon.
    Edit: surely MS and Sony have done the market research, they must know something we dont about the demand for this. I still think anyone who wants to have a laugh and leap around playing a game with their mom for 1/2 hour will already have a Wii.
    Edited by 1 at 15/06/10 @ 11:53

  • SomaticSense #30 2 years ago

    covfan -
    So that's £129 then probably.
    No. From previous experience of the game industry's and retailer's attitude to pricing, we usually see a $=£ ratio.

    So definitely at least £150, or don't be surprised if it's even higher than that if Rock Band was anything to go by.
    Edited by 1 at 15/06/10 @ 13:19