Kinect pricing and bundles revealed

To the surprise of no one, Microsoft has given Kinect and official price of $149.99. The camera will also come bundled with Kinect Adventures!, a $49.99 value. Microsoft will price all first-party Kinect games at this price. Third party publishers will be able to decide how to price its Kinect games. For example, Harmonix and MTV Games has officially priced Dance Central for $49.99. In addition to the camera, Microsoft also announced a Kinect oriented bundle and a pre-order bonus.

The bundle will sell for $299.99 on November 4, 2010. It includes a Xbox 360 Slim, Kinect and Kinect Adventures!. This 360 model will not include a hard drive. It will only contain 4GB of flash memory, but will have a compartment where a physical hard drive can be placed. Don’t forget that you can also store just about anything on the Xbox 360 with a 16GB flash drive.

The 4GB model will cost $199 and won’t include the glossy paint job that’s featured on the 250GB Xbox 360 Slim. The glossy finish has been replaced with a matte finish. However the $199 model will still have built in Wi-Fi. The $199 model can be purchased separately on August 3, 2010.

Those who pre-order either Kinect by itself or the $299 Kinect bundle will receive three additional levels for Kinect Adventures!.

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