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Adobo said:

I dont know. MS sell a $100 wifi add on before so..

Before? They still do. My guess is the wifi adapter is purchased by those with a lot of disposable income. And they must sell pretty well considering there hasn't been a price cut on them.

The Kinect is part of the 360's rebranding and the price needs to be competitive with other motion devices.



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Mr Puggsly said:
Adobo said:

I dont know. MS sell a $100 wifi add on before so..

Before? They still do. My guess is the wifi adapter is purchased by those with a lot of disposable income. And they must sell pretty well considering there hasn't been a price cut on them.

The Kinect is part of the 360's rebranding and the price needs to be competitive with other motion devices.


Don't bother, people ignore this how many times you try and explain it!



 

Mr Puggsly said:
Adobo said:

I dont know. MS sell a $100 wifi add on before so..

Before? They still do. My guess is the wifi adapter is purchased by those with a lot of disposable income. And they must sell pretty well considering there hasn't been a price cut on them.

The Kinect is part of the 360's rebranding and the price needs to be competitive with other motion devices.


yeah it is at $150 its cheaper than sonys move which will cost close to $200 to get more than 1 player



                                                             

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BHR-3 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Adobo said:

I dont know. MS sell a $100 wifi add on before so..

Before? They still do. My guess is the wifi adapter is purchased by those with a lot of disposable income. And they must sell pretty well considering there hasn't been a price cut on them.

The Kinect is part of the 360's rebranding and the price needs to be competitive with other motion devices.


yeah it is at $150 its cheaper than sonys move which will cost close to $200 to get more than 1 player



it's actually cheaper to buy them all separately.



MARCUSDJACKSON said:
BHR-3 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Adobo said:

I dont know. MS sell a $100 wifi add on before so..

Before? They still do. My guess is the wifi adapter is purchased by those with a lot of disposable income. And they must sell pretty well considering there hasn't been a price cut on them.

The Kinect is part of the 360's rebranding and the price needs to be competitive with other motion devices.


yeah it is at $150 its cheaper than sonys move which will cost close to $200 to get more than 1 player



it's actually cheaper to buy them all separately.

Well the Move bundle cost $100. Throw in the Navigation controller and that's another $30.

A lot of people like to play games with their friends and the Move is intended to appeal to the casual market. Another Move controller is gonna cost $50. Throw in $30 if you want to play a game that requires the Navigation controller. So a Move bundle, additional Move controller, and two Navigation controllers will run you about $210 plus tax.

Also, I was looking at The Fight: Lights Out. From what I can tell that game requires two Move controllers for each player. So if you wanna play that game split screen it'll require four Move controllers. So that experience will run $250 plus tax.

Basically I'm saying the full Move experience isn't cheap. The full Kinect experience shouldn't run more than $150 and I presume the real price will be around $100.



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Announcing something at a higher price then what customers expect in order to make people talk of it, is not a widely use technic. Announcing an higher price in order to hype the product by lowering down the price before release, is also not a widely use technic. Maybe they are doing it on purpose. Or maybe they simply said to retailers to list at that price (149$) because it was the highest possible price.



I think all of this comes down to retailers. I don't think microsoft planned anyhting out. I still think that online stores saw that the first place to list it was getting preorders, so they all followed suit so as not to loose orders themselves to someone who was set up to take preorders already.



thranx said:

I think all of this comes down to retailers. I don't think microsoft planned anyhting out. I still think that online stores saw that the first place to list it was getting preorders, so they all followed suit so as not to loose orders themselves to someone who was set up to take preorders already.


In one of those E3 videos from GameTrailers, a MS represenitive claimed they already determined the final price. He basically just said people will be happy with the price and they'll announce it some time before the launch. That leads me to believe it'll definitely be under $150 because nobody is happy with that price.



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