Kinect components cost $56 / £34

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Squilliam said:

disolitude said:

Shadowblind said:

So MS is profiting $100 from each peripheral sold?

And I paid $150 for mine? . . .

Not cool.

As it was said before, no one is forcing you to buy it at that price. After buying it myself, I believe 149 is more than a fair price for Kinect.

It may cost 60 bucks to make when looking at components but R&D and man hours spent on getting this thing to market were not free.

People are starting to expect everything to be sold at a loss when it comes to consoles and that is the only thing that is...

Not cool.

I had that impression too. Although it does feel we're moving a little past that stage. I think a large part of it had to do with a protest at how Nintendo sold so many units at a profit. However im sure when the next generation rolls around we'll have consoles sold at a profit with additional services also sold at a profit on top of that. Sony pioneering and then succumbing to their own razor/blade model will see to that.

Yep...thats just it.  PS1's launch made it a norm to sell consoles at a loss and since then more and more people expect this from hardware manufacturers. Nintendo has always been smart about it and have gotten a lot of slack about it in the past...

I think however that the hardware race is going to be dying down which should destroy the razorblade model...it will be all about cool new gameplay ideas, console features and games as always. The days of packing every last gigapixel and GFLOP in to a console and selling it on that merrit are done and done.