Kinect components cost $56 / £34

[Ingmar]

zzamaro said:

First the xbox live price hike, then selling a new x360 controller instead of selling it together with the new xbox 360 S and now this?

Ingmar said:

R&D, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, marketing, retailing...I think 149 is quite fair to start with. No one is forced to buy one.

Come on, if that's the reason, why didn't Sony sell the ps eye and the eyetoy at 100/150 USD/Euros at launch? If I'm not mistaken, they were sold at 50 USD at launch. 

Wake up, X360 people.

Oh, yeah, this is Micro$oft, greedy as always.

Because of the very fact that the BOM of PS Eye wasn't 56$, but approximatly <10. Kinect is a  lot more than Eyetoy. 

 

But I'm off. Too tired to the deal with such childish fanboy BS. As I said before, no one is forced to buy Kinect. Bye.