Kinect : $500 million in marketing, Will be bigger than Jesus!

[daroamer]

AnthonyW86 said:

daroamer said:

AnthonyW86 said:

If this is true i'm officially selling my 360, what a complete rip-off. For the same money they could sell the first 10 million(!!) Kintect bundles for $99. If Microsoft is really this stupid, i don't want anything to do with it.

I'm sorry but that's truely an idiotic argument.  Every game and every product has a marketing budget.  As stated in this thread Sony's overall marketing budget is over 5 billion a year, with that money they could give away 16 million PS3s a year!   Are you giving back your PS3 too since you had to pay for it when Sony clearly has the cash to give you a free one?

That budget is for all of Sony's products.And Sony sold the PS3 at a loss for many years, so that's not a good comparison.

Personally i'm what they call an early adaptor, i usually buy these kind of things day one. Now Microsoft is going to rip-off their loyal customers who buy these things first by letting them pay a premium price so they can finance their marketing budget, and we all now how good that marketing turned out for their Zune mediaplayer and Kin phone(disscontinued after 6 weeks!).

Alot of people have been saying Kinect is overpriced and this proves it.

You're missing the point.  You said they should take the marketing budget and use that lower the price of the actual units, in fact you called them really stupid for not doing so.  That's not only ridiculous but you can basically say that about every product sold in the world.  There is always marketing money.

I also fail to see how this marketing budget proves the product is overpriced.   Where is the correlation?