Microsoft Cuts Kinect Price, Bundles Accessories Ahead of Entertainment Push - jeremiahcamagirse

Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 is now $40 cheaper, and a new megabucks of accessories is en route as Microsoft tries to comprise the center of your living room.

A standalone Kinect motion accountant with Kinect Sports now costs $110, down from its original price of $150. Microsoft's Kinect and Xbox 360 bundles still cost $300 for the 4GB model and $400 for the 250GB model.

In plus to the Kinect price cutting, Microsoft proclaimed an "Xbox 360 Essentials Pack," advent in Oct. The Essentials Pack includes a wireless Xbox 360 controller, a Media Far, an HDMI cable and a three-month Xbox Live Amber subscription. Individually, those items would price around $135, just the bundle off only costs $80. (Note that if you want to keep Xbox Live Gold, you're better murder switching to the annual order of $60, compared to $25 in trey-month increments.)

The timing is critical as Microsoft is stressful to push the Xbox 360 as an general-purpose entertainment twist. Passim the last year, Microsoft has added new music and picture apps to the Xbox 360, including YouTube, Amazon Instant Telecasting, HBO Go, and iHeartRadio. The console can besides stream cable content from Comcast and Meter Warner for subscribers. Most of these apps can be priest-ridden with vocalize operating room gestures through Kinect, though a media outside will come in handy as well.

This fall, a software update for the Xbox 360 will add a version of Internet Explorer, new search capabilities and the power to pin preferent apps to the dashboard. An app for tablets, named SmartGlass, will allow them to attend to As a associate screen and remote control for the Xbox 360. Microsoft is accepting beta testers for the new dashboard now.

Unfortunately, there hasn't been such blabber about a price cut for the Xbox 360 itself. Microsoft is testing a $99 Xbox 360 deal, subsidised aside two years of Xbox Vital Gold service, but it's only available in Microsoft Stores. IT's also more expensive in the long track down than stipendiary whole price for the hardware and subscribing to Xbox Survive separately.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/460832/microsoft_cuts_kinect_price_bundles_accessories_ahead_of_entertainment_push.html

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