Microsoft Kinect bundle priced at $200 with free game and $30 Walmart eGift Card

By on Jul 13, 2010 at 10:08 PM
General July 13, 2010

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Microsoft has not yet announced the pricing on its upcoming Kinect motion device, but that has not stopped the Xbox 360 accessory from making the rounds on retail websites including Microsoft’s. This week the device made its debut on Walmart’s website in a $199.99 bundle that includes a $30 Walmart eGift Card and your choice of a free launch title, those of which include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One, Dance Central, Joy Ride, Kinectimals, Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures. Take off $60 for the game and $30 for the gift card and you have the best value thus far on this not-yet-released accessory. Now we just have to wait for Microsoft to confirm the pricing so this awkward, pre-release price war can come to its timely end.

[Via Joystiq]

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  • babbleon

    First!

    suck it bitches

    • yaya

      haha nice! first posts are back in!

  • Eric Allain

    Easily the worst add-on in the history of gaming. What the hell is Microsoft thinking with this garbage?

    There isn’t a single game they’ve shown of any worth. Just a bunch of me-too motion control shovelware.

    The videos of real life people trying to just this piece of junk add-on are embarrassing to watch. It just doesn’t work and has horrible lag.

    It only works with 2 players.

    It requires a large open area to use.

    It requires people to stand too far away from the unit because of the narrow angle the camera has.

    You can’t sit down and use it.

    No wonder Microsoft has been forced to use fake and rigged demos of this junk at the last two E3s.

    The same idiots who bought that piece of garbage HD-DVD add-on will be dumb enough to waste money on this junk.

    • kimber

      It’s basically nothing more than old Sony Eye Toy style tech:

      Microsoft needs to find some way to keep the suckers paying their 50 dollar a year fees for online play. I guess this is the best they could up with.

      With all the layoffs and Microsoft’s stock dropping in half over the past decade under Ballmer’s disastrous time in control, blowing another 2-3 billion on new Xbox hardware clearly was out of the question.

  • MikeD

    $200 for an add-on. Too much.

  • Ananth T Sarathy

    The add on is 150… at least on amazon. the question is will that come with a game too?

  • sentinel

    Weird, Futureshop and Best Buy in Canada have been accepting pre-orders for a while now at C$150

    http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/microsoft-microsoft-kinect-xbox-360-400100214855/10145671.aspx

    http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/microsoft-xbox-360-kinect-400100214855/10145671.aspx

    I’d say that’s pretty much confirmed.

  • PAPINYC

    More Microsoft trash; any relation to the Kin 1 & Kin 2? (those are doing [EXTREMELY] well)

  • Sir Awesome

    Its not a “free” game if you are paying $50 over retail. With the $30 retail card its more like paying $20 for the game, but even with that argument its not f-r-e-e.

    • Sir Awesome

      Just saw the “additional game” part. Berate at will.

  • boogalooboy

    Guess it would be good if it ran android,right?

    • yaya

      no dumbass. it’s a console add-on. it doesn’t have an operating system.

      just for the record, i did notice the sarcasm…but since it doesn’t has any ground to stand on, you lose.

  • nando

    BOY GENIUS is getting more like a large advertisement than a blog.. i hate it.. i dont come on here as much anymore. Who cares about how much money a company made i could just go to cnn money for that.. boy genius new ownership=fail

  • Sir Hardin Thicke

    and you can take that $30 card and immediately spend it on the next Rascal Flats album.

  • http://www.electricgamer.com Pocket

    Microsoft did announce the pricing for connect, this is why Gamestop, Amazon, and Best Buy have been accepting pre-orders.

    For those that say this is a piece of junk you have a choice…don’t make a purchase. If it picks up then by all mean change your mind but in the mean time let the innovators and early adopters buy this on the day of it’s release and enjoy it. HD-DVD & Blu-Ray was in competition to be the next format, Blu-Ray won, if by chance HD-DVDs had won the battle those people that paid up to $1000 for Blu-Ray would of been out of money (but it was their money to spend)

  • doublejizzle

    I just don’t see this catching on. Microsoft needs to look at the history of add ons. Turbografx 16 CD, Sega CD, XBOX HD DVD, Virtual Boy, Nintento Gyromite add on, Power glove, etc. None of these things did all that well.

    $150 for an add on…..pass. Microsoft is using the nickel and dime strategy of selling a slew of peripherals at high prices to augment the base unit. They ripped everyone off for years with the extremely overpriced wireless add on for the 360.

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id thea

    I’ve ever purchased.

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