Kinect out in the US on 4th November

By Tom Bramwell Published 14 June, 2010

ROW "thereafter". More than 15 launch titles.

Microsoft has announced that Kinect for Xbox 360 will launch on 4th November "starting in North America". According to the press release that accompanied the news, "Kinect will roll out to the rest of the world thereafter."

The platform holder told the audience at its E3 conference that Kinect, which uses a camera, sensors and a microphone to detect input in a variety of ways, would be flanked by "more than 15" launch titles.

Among those will be the six games we got hands-on with yesterday - Kinecticals (adopt 40 animals, 30 unique activities), Kinect Sports (Rare's sports compilation - football, bowling, javelin, long jump, table tennis, hurdles, etc.), Kinect Joy Ride (kart racing), Kinect Adventures (rafting, other mini-games), Your Shape: Fitness Evolved (Ubisoft's go at Wii Fit) and Dance Central (Harmonix's wicked rhythm game).

Microsoft didn't say how much Kinect would cost or how it would be bundled.

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  • DreadedWalrus #1 2 years ago

    From Halo: Combat Evolved to Yourshape: Fitness Evolved in a console generation. Congratulations, Microsoft.

  • Lee_Morris #2 2 years ago

    Hopefully they can ship it jesus' b'day for us. I want to buy a new 360 (well my first) and Kinect but if RB3 is out first with the new instruments then I simply won't be able to afford it.

    Did they really announce a ship date and no price, bizarre. The give Sony there due, they've announced the Move's price well ahead of time. I can see the rumours of a +£100 price point coming true.

  • BlinxHDD #3 2 years ago

    No price, eh?

  • makeamazing #4 2 years ago

    I actually liked the Fitness thing, just because it at least showed the persons movements pretty well, while i felt the movements in some of the other videos to be alittle iffy....

    Actually its pretty good for a 3rd party product, and i think a plus for the fitness crowd who MS are trying to get over to Natal.

  • Vyggo #5 2 years ago

    I hope we get some news on the other games that should come out. I am definately buying either the sports or adventure game if they are not bundled with Kinect, and probably the dance game. Maybe I can sell my wife on the Yoga game, should make for either hot or hilarious viewing if she plays it.

    I have no doubt it will be out in time for the holidays in Europe as well.

    Can't believe they didn't make an announcement on the price of the thing, maybe they'll save that for another publicity boost later this weekend?

  • Machetazo #6 2 years ago

    No good without slide.

  • Bonders99 #7 2 years ago

    Agree with Lee Morris' sentiments. No price announcements mean a hefty tag on launch is pretty likely.

  • super_monty #8 2 years ago

    I bought a 360 cam/eye thing and there were no games for that so I am not buying this! Simple

  • smelly #9 2 years ago

    >Microsoft didn't say how much Kinect would cost or how it would be bundled...

    ... because it wanted to see what sony had planned first...

  • telboy007 #10 2 years ago

    So does the talking to the xbox only work with Zune? I hope not, I really want to talk to my xbox likes its HAL from space odyssey... now if it were to talk back then I would never switch it on again and go hide behind my sofa. But thats my issue to deal with...
    Edited by telboy007 at 16/06/10 @ 13:26