Wal-Mart Begins Kinect Bundle PreOrders

Wal Mart is selling a Kinect bundle that you can pre-order, offering budget gamers more value than just the sensor peripheral.  For $199, you get a Kinect sensor, one game, plus a $30 gift card at Wal Mart.  Wal-Mart will allow gamers to select one of these six games for free: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Kinect Dance Central; Kinect Joy Ride; Kinectimals, Kinect Sports; or Kinect Adventures.

Other retailers are setting the price of just the Kinect controller, without bundled games.  Microsoft sets the price for Kinect in its online store at $150.  Several retailers are now taking pre-orders for Kinect, also listing the price at $150 ($149.99).   Amazon, GameStop, Best Buy, and more are setting the same price, with games priced out at the (now) typical $60.

We first learned of Kinect pricing from reliable sources that leaked information about the launch of Kinect even before E3 2010.  Sources close to Microsoft said over two months ago that Kinect will come out at a price point of $150.  This is cooberated by foreign retail sources, with a Swedish retailer leaking the proposed price range of $150-200, weeks before E3. 

This price leak came on the heels of a release date leak.  Kinect's release month had been leaked by the Saudi wing of Microsoft's Entertainment Division.  An entertainment program (viewable below) featured an interview with the marketing manager for the region; in the interview, the marketing manager clearly stated Microsoft's intent to release the Natal (Kinect) motion sensing peripheral in October of 2010, rather than later in the year as some had speculated.  It turned out that the date announced in E3 was November, so not everything stated in the interview was 100% accurate, but certainly close.

Microsoft marketing manager for the region Syed Bilal Tariq said "We will be in a position to confirm the date after E3, which is in June, but definitely, it is going to be October 2010, and we will have it in Saudi Arabia for sure."

The video below has all of the details of the early leak.  In the video, the second phone guest is the Microsoft Marketing manager.

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