Microsoft has recently announced the Kinect pricing as 150 USD, is this another 500 million blunder similar to its mobile namesake the Kin, with a price point of 150 Dollars (130 pounds), and no hard core games, only time will tell, hint- RIP Kinect..

Kin (often stylized as KIN) is the name of a family of phones from Microsoft that were sold from April 2010 to July 2010 through Verizon Wireless.^[1]After several years of development, at a cost of a billion dollars (USD),^[2] Microsoft announced the discontinuation of the KIN line on June 30, 2010, only six weeks after it was launched.^[3]

Kinect for Xbox 360^[2], or simply Kinect (originally known by the code name Project Natal^[2] (pronounced /nəˈtɒl/ nə-tahl)), is a “controller-free gaming and entertainment experience” by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller through a natural user interface using gestures, spoken commands,^[3] or presented objects and images. The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox 360′s audience beyond its typical gamer base.^[4]

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