Microsoft on Kinect Price: "Depends How You Look at it"

Goodness, Microsoft is having some difficulty convincing cynical, hard-bitten, getting it for free anyway, journalists of the validity of its pricing for Kinect. Next in the queue for price-justification duty is Marketing Manager at Xbox/Microsoft in the UK, Brett Siddons.

"The price thing itself depends on how you look at it," Siddons said at a recent Amazon event. That's what we call a free market. Except it's not true. The pricing is in fact set in stone.

"It's £129.99 RRP but it comes with a game within that price – so Adventures will be packed in with the camera", he told Techradar.

"If you buy it with the console which normally costs £149.99, (then the package price is) £249.99 with the Kinect and the games – another 100 pound on top," he continued... with set-in-stone pricing.

"I'll let you do the maths," he continued, "but when you say Nintendo Wii or PlayStation Move you buy this and this, even for a two player games.

"What do you need and what do actually have to spend for a two player game for this device versus that device. You actually find that (Kinect) is very competitively priced."

So, are you convinced? Tell us in the comments.