Kinect components cost $56 / £34

[Shadowblind]

kowenicki said:

Shadowblind said:

So MS is profiting $100 from each peripheral sold?

And I paid $150 for mine? . . .

Not cool.

good grief... how wrong can you be?  heard of R&D, marketing, shipping, tax, retail cut?

also.. was it bad when sony were making bucket loads off the PS2 towards the end? and why do the sony crowd rejoice when sony makes money and the PS3 is finally proftable but sneer at MS when they do the same?     

Can you explain the difference to me?

Oh gawd. No. I'm all for Microsoft making money on Kinect. But if my sources (lolIGN) are to be believed then Kinect could have been priced at $99 and possibly sold a good deal more and still made them money. And I would have been able to get Kinectimals for my sister.