No, more like the $299 bundle. No casual owner will take a $399 Move bundle over a £299 kinect bundle, after GT5 Sony won't have anymore system sellers or sale spikes left. And by the time they drop the price to $199 it will be too late.
People seem to forget casuals are willing to spend $99 on Wii Fit. Kinect is technically $99 with a $50 game. Plus the majority of new Wii owners but an extra control and Wii fit so Kinect will look like a better deal to them. MS jus...
So Kinect is still best value for money, since it has everything in one, just like how the PS3 had the wifi, rechargeable battery etc and the 360 didn't.
Funny how things change.
@PirateThom
What does Move have apart from games which work better with a standard controller and have motion tacked on?
You got that harry potter clone and what else? Remember you CAN'T be able to use a standard controller for it to be a Move e...
Surprised that they seem so positive. The only bad one was Patcher....
Lol, oh dear.
If MS puts this up at all retailer casuals will think twice about picking up a Wii.
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Never realised Move was so much, and it still can't do what the balance board/Kinect can do.
Casuals will buy cause of the bundle, current owners might not.
In fact selling a current xbox for the bundle might actually be a better deal than buying Kinect standalone.
They got a point about Rock Band if people are willing to pay that much for a single game, why wouldn't they pay $150/£130 for Kinect which offers a lot more.
Its certainly is even just for 2 players.
But for the new owners the bundle is a massive deal.
$299 for Kinect,game and 360S Vs $399 for the PS3/Move for one player. The Kinect bundle makes Kinect actually $99.
Kinect will definitely expand MS's audience, far far more than Move will expand Sony's audience.
I will say it again, how are you going to fit more than 2 people in a room to play a kinect game.
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At $150 kinect is still cheaper than Move for two players to get the full experience.
Well at least it comes with a full game and the bundle is $299. Alone $149 so the guesses were right.
Thought it would be cheaper standalone though.
4GB console got wifi too.
Oh no they didn' lol.
But no one can deny this site is over run with Sony fanboys, its just a fact, luckily its very easy to own them so the more the merrier :)
@PirateThom
Thats the past, this article is obviously referring to the present. And I'm sure back 3 years ago N4G was a better place and the 360 fanboys were no where near as bad as the PS3 ones now, since if they were the same article would have been made back then. But I bet it was...
Just when you thought a day could go by without a negative Kinect article............*sigh*
Looks like another very solid exclusive XBLA game.
The same reason the PS3 outsells the 360 in Japan
Wow only a single day of slim sales caused the 360 to outsell the PS3 4:1 in EU. WOW.
360S it only does Europe lol.
360 will be No.1 WW this week it seems, even above the DS, just imagine the impact of the 4GB $199 Slim :S
Edit: Wow the 360S did better in the EU than US too, MS is on a roll now.
@kartik21
Price cut was weeks ago in EU, this is all Slim sales
Well obviously, the 360 still got 5 years left and with games like Reach, Gears 3, Crysis and Rage it's quite obviously 360 games are getting better and better.
@dontletmegetme
So what if they are, they still are examples of improvements in graphics.
Very nice, Alan Wake and Splinter Cell got a random boost too.
Wow that crazy 0.o
The PS3 slim was a pricecut while the 360S was a price increase and it still beat the PS3. But then again the UK is more 360 country than the US I think it even consistently outsells the Wii each week too.
Edit: It even beat the PS2 slim launch too very impressive.
@mrv321
Nope you're are wrong, I live in the UK, the elite 360 has been £199 for ages, like at least half a year i think. There was no pricecu...
Once Birth by Sleep, 3rd Birthday and FFXIII:Agito are released the PSP will be dead to me, but it was good while it lasted. FFVII:CC is one of the best portable games I've ever played.
360 should be back infront of the Wii next week with the 360S coming out in EU. Surprising it still doing so well now considering the shortages in the US.
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LOL, ok disagree then watch when the 360 does lead next week.
The fact that an article like this failed to go straight to the front page, yet Kinect is overpriced/laggy/fail articles do speaks volumes.