Will Sonic Free Riders be $50?
Today, Microsoft confirmed the $150 price point rumored since E3 for the XBOX Kinect add-on. That price will be about £130 in the UK, and €149 in the rest of Europe. The sensor will come bundled with Kinect Adventures, allowing gamers to experience a Kinect ready game without separate purchases.
According to a Kotaku report, the price is for the peripheral and game bundle alone. A revised “slim” XBOX Live Arcade setup with Kinect and 4GB of internal space included with Kinect Adventures will sell November 4th for about $300. In Europe, the bundle will run €300.
The report suggests Kinect games will generally run $50 (about £40 in Britain), ten dollars less than a typical XBOX 360 game. Will that price setup apply to Sonic Free Riders? Maybe not. Microsoft today suggested the pricing will only be rigid for first-party fare, leaving third parties like Sega to price as they please.
Still, Sega has only discounted its Sonic titles from general MSRPs at a maximum of $10 at launch. Most recently, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing sold at a launch price of about $50 on both XBOX 360 and PS3–though today, most retailers will let you pick it up for just $30 and tax. That suggests Sonic Free Riders may see a bare minimum launch price of $40–and there’s nothing stopping Sega from asking full price for it on launch day. With that in mind and from what’s been seen thus far, do you think the assumed price range for SFR is fair? Tell us in our comments section.
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Meh still going to fail.
they are definetly looking for bankrupcy in the console market i mean if i had 300 bucks i’d buy a PS3 Slim
My care of Kinect has now reached into the negatives, they are making a huge huge mistake. What happened to Riders being a XBLA release, after looking at those ugly screens from the other day you’re telling me that this is a disc release?
@Dr.Eggfang look at a post above.My comment says it all
@DAMN
I’m sure Wii owning casual family and gaming grandma is all for the idea of buying another overpriced console so they can wangle some more but thanks to the power of Kinect it’s controller free waggling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm0KKa6wACQ oh man OH MAN
@DAMN and once that happens maybe Sega will make a comeback despite them saying they are not returning to making gaaming systems it would be a good oppurtinity once Microsoft falls apart.
*gaming
This needs to be posted.
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The device is expensive yet underpowered (having to draw from the system’s computing resources, resulting in even more inferior graphics), runs on a system with a horrid failure rate to begin with, and has more expensive games than Move (which is launching at the $40 price point, first and third party alike as I understand it). Also, Kinect fails on the core aspect whereas Move does not. You fail, Microsoft.
@Mike: Nice!
very interesting
I payed £120 for my 360.
IT COSTS MORE THAN THE CONSOLE.
No thanks. They always do this, though- it’s £50 just for a wifi adaptor, for example.
@Soniclegends we can only dream
@SU yeah they’re looking for bankrupcy in the console market(Very Interesting)
All I’m gonna say is Riders looks fun; never played the original games before because it alienated me a bit on the gameplay but considering how easy it appears with Kinect I May pick it up.
HAHAHA! Kinect is gonna burn down with that kind of pricing! I mean, I could jsut buy a Wii, which I have, with that kind of money! And as for the Kinect games, why don’t they just make the Kinect 60 bucks and the games themselves 20 bucks each? I mean, seriously, you could get the Wii Balance Board for about 60 without the WiiFit games……(I could be wrong on that price but at least it’s cheaper than the Kinect)
This is a stupid move. But knowing the general population of the US, this will be a great success. I wouldn’t doubt it if it did fail, but I assume this will be a hit.
@Edge what are you on Microsoft’s side please pray that this wont be a success and hopefully they go bankrupt and the world would be then a better place without the 360′s RROD
Poor pricing is poor.
@DAMN
Stop being a fan boy you idiot, your bringing everyone else’s intelligent comments down to your level.
@SEGAMew: There’s nothing poor about THIS price!
Bad joke is bad.