Rumor: Kinect to have two versions, most expensive costs $189.00

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joeorc said:

Monteblanco said:

If true, it seems that Microsoft is jealous of Sony's PSP Go price model and decided to join the overprice party.

see that right there is what i was exactly talking about..

I just showed a web cam that by the way is not 3D and is not as good as the camera that Microsoft is putting out

•  2.0 M Effective Pixels
•  Up to 1600 x 1200 30 fps...
•  USB 2.0

and it's priced at $89.00

but it seem's many gamer's want the price to be less , when it's more expensive component's?

:P

 

but the web cam is a high end device sold with a large manufacturers markup designed to make a profit off of a relatively small number of sales. Natal is something people expected Microsoft to sell at a loss to get it into peoples homes. Sure the price is legitimate for the device and very possible but if MS want to sell a lot of them and market it is the next generation of gaming to coincide with the slim as a relaunch of the 360 people expected it to be cheaper. A lot of people will be turned off by this rumoured price. 

the fact that a lot of analysts like Pachter were saying $50-150 and may cost around $75-100 to manufacture means that this price seems high to a lot of people.