June 23, 2010 7:24 am by Jal
Soon after Microsoft unleashed
Kinect (formerly
Project Natal), tons of blogs and websites came up with its
expected price hovering mostly around $150. Yesterday, Kinect sensor for Xbox made its
official entry to the Microsoft Store and is indeed priced at $149.99.
However, there is a note that says the prices are subjected to change. But, that’s a rare case scenario. For those who don’t know, Kinect is an additional sensor to Microsoft Xbox that brings in unprecedented gaming experience. Requiring no traditional game controllers, Kinect does a full-body tracking of the gamer, captures the movements and then manipulates the game accordingly. Kinect is compatible with all Xbox 360 systems with a minimum 175MB of memory.
May 27, 2010 6:02 am by Jal
Recently
we did a post about a seemingly fake site offering pre-orders for Microsoft’s Natal. There we even quoted what might be the actual price tag of the same. Turns out, our estimate was right – Yes, Microsoft’s Project Natal is likely to be released on Oct 26th with $149 price tag for the stand-alone unit.
A ‘trusted source’ of a Game Industry Network, Edge-Online, reported the exclusive news and also stated that the motion sensing camera will also be bundled with the console for $299. This is certainly awesome because, right now, the XBox 360 Arcade system itself is priced around $199. Add to it the motion sensing camera (the Natal standalone unit) priced at $149, the whole bundle could have been around $350. So my point is, Microsoft did get the pricing right.
Also, the standalone unit, won’t certainly be called ‘Natal’. I am sure Microsoft would have thought of a much cooler, market-friendly name for it and should officially unveil more details at the world-premiere event on June 13th.
The first two weeks of June this year will be pretty exciting. With Apple’s WWDC on June 7 where the iPhone 4G await its grand ceremony followed by Natal’s world-premiere on June 13th, we are surely going to have a nice time.
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May 17, 2010 16:24 pm by Jal
Without beating about the bush, let me just put my shock and awe into words. A Swedish site,
WebHallen has already started allowing people to pre-order the Microsoft’s Project Natal device for about
$200. A Twitter user, Dovella, first pointed this out.
Now let me tell you folks, if this were Ebay or Amazon, I would shout out loud, but this doesn’t seem like a ‘real’ deal. For one, Natal is so big a project that Microsoft wouldn’t just allow pre-ordering without creating a stir in the inter-webs and second, I don’t think Microsoft would price it that high. We assume Natal to be priced at around $130 to $160.
We don’t have a word from Microsoft as of yet, apart from the fact that Natal will be out in October this year. We can expect an official announcement in a couple of weeks. Till then, it’s advisable to refrain from sites offering pre-orders.
