Wed, Jul 28, 2010 | 19:58 BST
Microsoft – Kinect is competitively priced with Wii and Move
Brett Siddons, marketing manager for Microsoft UK, has said Kinect is competitively priced with both Wii and Move, because you only need one peripheral to get the full experience for 360.
Speaking with TechRadar, Siddons said if one were to “do the maths” they would find Kinect is less expensive for two-players.
“The price thing itself depends on how you look at it,” said Siddons “It’s £129.99 RRP but it comes with a game within that price – so Adventures will be packed in with the camera. If you buy it with the console which normally costs £149.99, [it's] £249.99 with the Kinect and the games – another 100 pound on top.
“The camera tracks six people – with two active gamers – you don’t have to buy anything else.
“I’ll let you do the maths, but when you say Nintendo Wii or PlayStation Move you buy this and this, even for a two player games. What do you need and what do [you] actually have to spend for a two player game for this device versus that device.
“You actually find that [Kinect] is very competitively priced.”
In the UK, Sony’s price for a basic Move pack is £49.99 and includes the PlayStation Eye Camera, the controller and a demo disc. If you want to add another Move and two Navigation controllers, it would cost you an additional £39.99, plus £59.98 for the nunchuk-like Navs.
That’s a total cost of around £150, which is in-line with what MS is saying here, but it’s unknown if Sony plans to offer more bundle savings on Move than what has already been announced, so pricing on each side could eventually become more competitive, obviously.
Both Move and Kinect are later in the year, with the former hitting in September and the later in November.
Thanks, GoNintendo.
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14 comments
#1
Mattigan
28/07/10, 8:04 pm
So glad he said ‘do the maths’ and not ‘do the math’. Although I agree with his point, it kind of relies on you always playing two player in the same room, which with the Xbox and LIVE is very rare in my house.
#2
get2sammyb
28/07/10, 8:05 pm
He’s right, but this strategy never worked for Sony when they were trying to sell a more expensive system with blu-ray, hard-drive, wireless, yadda, yadda.
As it stands, Sony can market Move at $50/£35. I don’t expect either device is going to light the charts up — but I’m really interested in Move because of the alternative experience it can add to PS3 games. I’m yet to see any proof that Kinect’s capable of offering anything beyond sports, fitness and mini-games (I’m grouping Dance Central under sports). Kinect’s limitations are plastered all over its launch line-up, which manages to span about three genres.
#3
Xuchilbara
28/07/10, 8:18 pm
The point of the matter is that the average 360 player is after what we today call “hardcore” games… Shooters, RPG’s, etc… Kinect however, can’t do those, where as Move and the Wii can. So 150.00 for a bunch of shovel ware games… Ill pass, I will be getting the Move however. SOCOM 4 looks really good with it.
#4
Gekidami
28/07/10, 8:41 pm
The main difference is that Move is actually worth getting if you’re only playing SP games, Kinect is not.
#5
Goliath
28/07/10, 8:49 pm
What I want to know is, can you play Dance Central competitively, locally with 2 persons using Kinect? That would kill at parties. It’s like DDR without the mat. There is no way I’m getting Move since I have no interest in playing traditional, core titles that way. Why play SOCOM 4 with Move when I can just use the traditional controller as I always have? Kinect is a novelty and that’s precisely how I plan on using it.
#6
Dannybuoy
28/07/10, 9:19 pm
I’m going to buy a kinect, and hold a wiimote in each hand and strap a move controller to each foot.
#7
Mattigan
28/07/10, 9:35 pm
@3 It’s this assumption that I just don’t get, I can see absolutely no reason why Kinect cannot ‘do’ ANY genre of game, including hardcore. At the very least it can enhance the experience of any type of game with voice control and head tracking, even if it’s only just to have NPCs actually looking AT you as you talk to them in a RPG, or enableing voice controlled squad command and leaning round corners in a FPS whilst maintaining a tratitional controller interface for moving, strafing etc…
#8
Psychotext
28/07/10, 9:50 pm
#2 has it pretty much spot on regarding the pricing. People wont realise that it’s going to cost them £130+ for two players until they’ve already spent the money.
They got greedy, and they’re going to regret it.
#9
DrDamn
28/07/10, 9:54 pm
Move RRP’s are £5 lower than stated in the article. Wandildo is £35 and Navi is £25. Still same ball park but £135 not £150. You can also cut out the two Navi’s and use regular controllers too – which everyone will have at least one of. There are a few games which require two wands per player mind
#10
Happy Hardon Harry
28/07/10, 9:56 pm
Natal (fuck Kinect) will bomb because the hardcore won’t buy it and the casual market won’t buy it because they’ll get a Wii instead as it’s cheaper.
Natal will be the next Mega CD.
#11
justiceblob
28/07/10, 10:23 pm
@5 unfortunately you can’t, which I think is a huge issue. Instead they have turn based multiplayer. Hopefully it is like a dance battle in the same song, and not one player in full, then another.
#12
Withnail
28/07/10, 11:40 pm
He’s delusional. Move has a low cost of entry and people can pick and choose the extra bits they want. Not everybody wants or needs extra wands or navigation controllers. It’s the 360 vs PS3 argument in reverse.
Also currently available pre-orders seem to suggest that Move games will have a significantly lower RRP than Kinect titles.
#13
Crysis
29/07/10, 5:40 am
i like how the Move starter pack has the same RRP as the current dualshock3 in Australia, makes it look MUCH more attractive, $100 for a lonely controller, or $100 for a motion controller, PS Eye & a motion copntroller enabled game, i think i’ll choose the 2nd option, the 3rd party ps3 controllers are absolutely horrible, i’ve bough 2 from different brands & they’re useless, one of em has only 8 directions on both sticks & the other is horrible to try & kinect to the ps3
#14
frostquake
29/07/10, 1:31 pm
What they are not getting is the UP FRONT cost. People pressed for Cash, will get Move because it is cheaper Up front.
My wallet can handle small to medium purchase over a stretched out period of time, while Kinect wants it all up front at once.
At first I will buy Move just for me, and if I like it and the wife and other family members like it then I can buy more Move products over time.
If I don’t like Move I am only out the price of one game, as compared to Kinect, if I don’t like Kinect then I am out the price of almost and Entire Console…
NO WAY am I buying Kinect, the gamble vs the pay off right now is too big. I am more tempted by Move, because it is a cheaper purchase up front, even if I buy more of Move, it will be over time.
My Monthly Wallet can take the hit of $50.00, but my Monthly Wallet in NO WAY can handle $150.00.