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expensive and this comes from ps3 guy. natal will own move. Move is just complicated for casuals. How many MOVE's you need? Sub controllers? What is the difference between those two? O yeah and it has camera? I mean too many parts, its confusing for ppl that not game.
Natal? Just plug it in 360 and play...brilliant. Of course if software ends up being good it is brilliant.
It is ironic that sony started it all with Eye toy and now MS will take over.



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Yikes. So if there is a Motion controller + Navigation controller + Eyetoy + Game bundle, what will that realistically cost? To sell at $99 would still be heavily subsidized and be yet another profit loss leader for Sony's game division, which is probably right on the verge of breaking even. To sell for much more ($119 - 129) would bring it closer to last gen console prices than peripheral add-on AND distance it from the rumored price of "Project Natal".

Folks ... this doesn't look good ...



Wait, is that JUST for the glowing ball part, and not with the sub-controller? If so, that seems rather pricey. I'd be expecting both pieces at that price myself, but...



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So I guess we jumped the whole 'rumor' stage right to this being a fact?



Lucky that i already have the camera! I think they will be about £39.99 here in the UK anyway as that's the price of the DS3



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It appears that Sony should be targeting the move to hardcore gamers. The reason I say this is because the price entry for the move will not make casuals eager to get the device. As most have stated 60$ for the controller. Who knows the price for the sub controller. 39.99 for the Eyetoy and we haven't even put the price for a game in their.

Even a bundle will cost you probably 99.99 which is getting steep without the inclusion of a game. I am sure the bundle will have a game but will it separate itself the Wiisports. If not then their will be no excitement for it.

Anyway you slice it, it appears that the move will be a hard sell for the casual market. On the other hand, the hardcore market will pay whatever they have to if the games are their. Sony strategy should be to concentrate on their core, provide cool and innovative to use the Move for their core and worry about the casuals for their next console.



Way too expensive. For example, to play that boxing game they have showed off between two people you would need 4 moves and the PSeye. That would come out to about $270 and that's not including any navigation/subcontrollers.

If they want many people to buy this a more reasonable pricing scheme would be $30 for Move, $20 for navigation subcontroller, and $30 for PSeye. Anything more than that and I certainly wouldn't consider the PS Move.



How do you guys know they wont bundle all of it in?

This is just the CONTROLLER.

Jesus christ...



dunno001 said:
Wait, is that JUST for the glowing ball part, and not with the sub-controller? If so, that seems rather pricey. I'd be expecting both pieces at that price myself, but...

 

I know it isn't completely comparable, but assuming this is correct it's the same price as a Wiimote with the WM+ dongle. The Wiimote + WM+ + Nunchuk is $85 in Canada.



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Reiki said:

expensive and this comes from ps3 guy. natal will own move. Move is just complicated for casuals. How many MOVE's you need? Sub controllers? What is the difference between those two? O yeah and it has camera? I mean too many parts, its confusing for ppl that not game.
Natal? Just plug it in 360 and play...brilliant. Of course if software ends up being good it is brilliant.
It is ironic that sony started it all with Eye toy and now MS will take over.

You can't play a game properly without buttons.

Need I say more?

Don't bring Natal into a Sony topic.