Xbox One Standalone Kinect Sensor Available in October

Since we announced the availability of a new Xbox One console option for $399, we have been excited by the response from fans. While we’ve seen our Xbox One sales double since the new Xbox One option became available, we have also seen increased demand for Xbox One with Kinect.

[Mikelarry]

$150 keep it,not sure if they want to sell these. again why bundling a game and charging 149 drop the game and charge 100 or less.

[rdgneoz3]

Seeing as the PC version of kinect v2 is going for $200, I was guessing that or $150. At $350, they would have sold a lot more systems.

[uptownsoul]

Kinect is pretty much over…If people didn't want to buy the Xbox One w/Kinect at $499…I don't see how they'll be okay paying $549 for the same hardware

[batman21x]

They want the bundle to be a better deal and they also have to pay for shelf space for the kinect to be stores so they can't sell it for a $100

[Wikkid666]

Nothing new here. They did the same exact pricing with the 360 and the standalone Kinect1.

[LackTrue4K]

Kinect's is dead!!! All them cool/nice a55 custom theme Xbox's One bundles....none comes with Kinects.....where do you think there going with it???

[colonel179]

People who buy an Xbox One without Kinect, it very likely that they don't want it in the first place. They priced Kinect at $150 to "force" people who are on the fence about which SKU to buy, to get the one with Kinect included.

[lfc_4eva]

Force is a bit strong.

More like encourage people to buy the full package.
Sony would do the exact same thing.

[Godz Kastro]

Cool, for all those lonely xbox ones out there! I got my baby back, bay back, baby back!

[Ashunderfire86]

baby back ribs!

[gamerfan0909]

It'll probably sell well outside of gaming like the first kinect did. Some of the stuff that people were using the first kinect to do was astounding. I've even seen people use it as a cheap motion capture device for animation. I think they should just promote outside of gaming and make it an all purpose device an play up its strengths accordingly. The device itself is great tech, but if devs don't want to develop for it and show off that tech then it's a paperweight.

[SoapShoes]

Oh man such PR written all over it. It doubled because it was record lows before June and people were waiting for the new sku rather than buying it in May. July's numbers were back down to normal. I do wonder why anyone would buy this standalone for the X1 instead of just getting a bundle with the Kinect.

[Nolando]

With my budget and the games I want when I pick it up this holiday season I will opt for the $399 package. Although this standalone unit might get a price cut or a sale later and I would love to pick it up to complete my XBO experience.

[Macdaddy71]

If you are not in to turning you X1 on with the Kinect, just step it... I don't use mine at all I really don't see how they can make a game really fun with the Kinect outside of some kids games, I wish MS n Sony would just stay to making a Die Hard gaming system, n stop all the crap gimmicks.... True die hard gamers only want Great games n a controller!!!! Is all...

[2pacalypsenow]

New technology is not a gimmck , people were saying HD tv's were gimmicks ,they have to try new things

[Muzikguy]

@Mac
I agree, I'd like to see die hard games and less focus on gimmicks. I'm interested in Morpheus though.

@2pac
In some ways new tech is in fact a gimmick. Wii fit board? Playatation Move? 3D TVs? All it is is something "new" to draw people in. That's what a gimmick is. New technology can be an advancement for society but gimmicks riddle that creation. Most fail and the good ones stick around (subjective I know). I didn't buy a 3D tv and won't. I'd love the Move but it's forgotten like the Kinect. Maybe when Morpheus comes, who knows.

Before I get ridiculed over this with things like "3D and PSMove paved the way for Morpheus though..." I'll just say that's R&D. That would mean we were doing their R&D for them would it not? I'm not saying either of those 2 are bad things, but IMHO they WERE gimmicks. I just want Move for the shooting games and stuff me and the lady can play. It's usually a good rule of thumb not to buy into gimmicks. Another opinion I know

[fullmetal297]

I know for sure that the Kinect will be well over $100 to stay competitive with their own 500 dollar bundle. It just doesn't make any sense from a pricing standpoint to have the standalone console be priced at 400 dollars and the Kinect 100 dollars and below. It would make the 500 dollar bundle useless.

[hiawa23]

Have they learned anything from the X1 un bundling of kinect? Most are not paying $149 for that. Take the game out of the box make it on par cost wise with Sony's camera. If they can't recoup their investment, well, it is their fault for pushing this device on us gamers when most of us just wanted a games machine like Sony had the good sense to deliver.

[Remy_Chaos]

Too expensive, anyone who buys this is a chump.

[EikichiOnizuka]

kinect is dead i don't think anyone will ever take it seriously again

[LazyGoron]

Ad slogan for Kinect:
"Kinect, does all the things you can also do with your fingers and your controller"

People who like kinect are the same people who buy PB&J in the same jar.

OT: $150 is too much, make it $100 that way whether you get the original X1 or new SKU it's always the same price for consumers. No need to punish consumers for wanting options or not having enough money for kinect at a given time that they may have later.

[Passenger]

I really don´t get it how insolent Microsoft can be.

So let´s sum it up..

X1+Kinect (newly released) = 499$
X1 = 399$
Kinect = 149$

How can they explain this warpholed 50 bucks??? Or was that a malevous trick by some outraged employee who wanted bad ads for Microsoft?

[Remy_Chaos]

And yet I get disagrees for pretty much saying this... smh stupid xbox fans.

[poor_cus_of_games]

I got my kinect for £20 from CEX. it's a bit rubbish. When you use the voice command to turn on the xbox it doesn't turn on the controller. So you have to press the middle button on the controller, which also turns on the console. Making the whole turn on with your voice thing a bit pointless.

[Keith22]

You can buy these at £20 in cex UK

[lfc_4eva]

Many people are complaining about the cost of the separate kinect. MS is most likely subsidising the cost to encourage consumers to buy the full package. The kinect isn't just some eyetoy clone.

Also, what do you reckon the VR headset for PS4 is gonna cost ya? It'll be way more than $150 I can guarantee you that.