Kinect for pc = 200 $

Link

Microsoft has opened pre-orders on its own online store for the Windows-compatible version of Xbox One’s 2.0 Kinect. What might surprise those unfamiliar with windows-based Kinect applications is the unit’s price, which is $199.

It gets less surprising if you look at the price of the Windows version of the old Xbox 360 Kinect, which is priced $149 for students and a whopping $249 for everyone else. Apparently a discounted price for students isn’t available for the 2.0 version, at least for now. The unit will ship on July 15th.

The rather pricey gadget doesn’t even ship with any software, and is designed to work with theKinect for Windows Software Development Kit 2.0, which has to be licensed separately and will be available this month as a public beta. That kind of clause indicates quite clearly that this is an offer aimed more to developers than to actual gamers.

Why?

Whoa hold on a sec there ,the way I hear, every X1 is bundled with Kinect ; Could this mean that X1 would be 200 bucks cheaper without this useless device being bundled?

No, because that includes what is basically a "licensing fee" for developing for the device on a PC. The did the same thing with the original Kinect. They intentionally disallow you from using the console counterpart Kinect so that you have to buy the "PC" version.

-Byshop

Nope, the Kinect costs around 80 bucks to make, this is basicly a more expensive version for developers. But really makes me wonder, why the **** it costs that much

That's quite the ripoff that microshaft is serving up for folks, typical.

As of late Microsoft has been hiring monkeys to make all of there decision because I refuse to believe that a human with basic intelligence would make such a brain damaged decision to release this shit for $100 more than their earlier version that is practically useless because its shipped without software. What the **edit** is wrong with the decision makers at Microsoft?