14th June 2010, 11:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th June 2010, 11:57 PM by A Black Falcon.)
On the note of Kinect, a few web rumors (a quickly removed Gamestop page most notably) put the price at $150... if it really is that expensive, the thing will have an extremely hard time selling. I mean, the thing is for casuals. Are people really going to buy if they need both a system and a $150 addon? Some price will need to go down there...
Of course it might bomb anyway, but if it is actually priced that high and the 360 doesn't receive a price cut, they'd be making it more certain, I think. But that isn't a final price, just a rumor, so we'll see...
On that note, is Microsoft going to continue to sell the older models of 360s, the Arcade and Elite (which are now marked down to $150 and $250, like Nintendo marked the non-Wii Sports Resort Wiis to $150 after releasing the new bundle), or are they getting rid of at least one of them in favor of the new model? They've only announced one model of the new one, the $300 one, so where's the "Arcade" version of it... using the old arcade seems like it would be not quite as good, given that the Kinect can get power through a new model system, but with the old one it needs a separate power brick.
Oh, and I think the chances of seeing any kind of Wii 2 at the Nintendo conference are near zero. We'd have heard rumors about it if it existed. 3DS is the new hardware this year.
Of course it might bomb anyway, but if it is actually priced that high and the 360 doesn't receive a price cut, they'd be making it more certain, I think. But that isn't a final price, just a rumor, so we'll see...
On that note, is Microsoft going to continue to sell the older models of 360s, the Arcade and Elite (which are now marked down to $150 and $250, like Nintendo marked the non-Wii Sports Resort Wiis to $150 after releasing the new bundle), or are they getting rid of at least one of them in favor of the new model? They've only announced one model of the new one, the $300 one, so where's the "Arcade" version of it... using the old arcade seems like it would be not quite as good, given that the Kinect can get power through a new model system, but with the old one it needs a separate power brick.
Oh, and I think the chances of seeing any kind of Wii 2 at the Nintendo conference are near zero. We'd have heard rumors about it if it existed. 3DS is the new hardware this year.