Kinect bundled with slim 4GB Xbox 360 Arcade for $300, new console for $200 in August

by Christopher Grant on Jul 20th 2010 12:03PM

In addition to Kinect retail pricing, Microsoft announced a brand-new Xbox console: a 4GB Xbox 360 "slim" meant to replace the Xbox 360 Arcade SKU. "It will go on sale August 3rd in North America," Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg told Joystiq, "and later in the month of August around the world." This $200 console will sport the same new look as the Xbox 360 slim, "except it will have a matte finish," Greenberg said. Though there are currently no Xbox 360 hard drives on the market that support the new "slim" form factor, Greenberg told us that this 4GB unit "absolutely does have that expansion bay that we have the opportunity to use in the future." Between 16GB USB thumb drives and 4GB of internal storage, the entry-level Xbox is more attractive than ever.

Microsoft also detailed a Kinect bundle, featuring the aforementioned 4GB Xbox 360 along with the Kinect sensor and Kinect Adventures for $300. "We think this is really a tremendous value," Greenberg said. "We believe the launch of this product is going to be driving a whole new series of new consumers into the Xbox 360 family."

Hoping for another game besides Kinect Adventures in your bundle? Greenberg noted that Kinect Adventures is it for bundles. "We feel like that's really the perfect title to include [...] It's got the great jump-in, jump-out multiplayer gameplay as well." The $300 Xbox 360 Kinect bundle will be available alongside standalone $150 Kinect sensors at retailers on November 4th.

Update: @AceyBongos (think Major Nelson, but with an accent) just let Twitter know that the European prices are "149.99 Euro for the camera + Kinect Adventures, 299.99 Euro for the 4GB console bundle." Some quick Google math puts those prices at roughly $200 and $390, respectively.
Update 2: The UK prices are £129.99 for the Kinect and £249.99 for the bundle, as reported by Yahoo UK.

4GB Xbox 360 (standalone and Kinect bundle)

Tags: Aaron-Greenberg, Kinect, microsoft, xbox, Xbox-360-Arcade, Xbox-360-Slim-Arcade

Reader Comments (89)

I was holding out hope for $99, Oh well. I'll have to be impressed by something to pick this up during the holiday.

Also, Why no bundle with the 250 GB Console? I guess this is why they didn't announce price and bundles at E3

@Glitch W

they are probably assuming most people who want the 250gig xbox wouldn't necessarily be all that interested in kinect. this is at least true, for me.

@Glitch W I was hoping for the 250 bundle and save 50 dollars.

With my current 60GB HDD, an "upgrade" to a 4GB HDD and Kinect is no deal for me. I'm still waiting for a 250GB or at least a 120GB bundle with Kinect.

@YimYimYimi
I wonder why everyone assumes that it has a 4GB HDD. It's got flash memory like in the old Arcade and there's four time more of it.

@YimYimYimi I have to agree with your logic. Why would they waste the time and development for a lousy 4gb when you can get that on a simple flash drive for 20 bucks at the local electronics store. If this is not an HDD, I wonder what their peripheral HDD options are going to be, since the current drives are not compatible with the new hardware.

@offscreen That doesn't really matter. If what you say is correct, good sir, then the new Xboxes shown above will not include a HDD and my 60GB of things that I currently have will not fit on it. Anyways, wasn't there 512MB of flash memory on the old arcade? Four times that is 2GB, not 4GB.

@YimYimYimi
i doubt they will bundle kinect with a hard drive, it makes no sense.

@VaultBoy

my assumption would be that they put 4GB of storage on it in order to store the actual Kinect app (the old Arcade has internal storage too for NXE). i remember reading how big it was somewhere but it does require. plus if you add a 16GB USB flash drive (pretty cheap) then you have your 20GB. plus i doubt their target market would want to store that much content on the Xbox anyway, i feel that's more of a hardcore thing.

overall, i feel it's a pretty decent deal for their target market. $100 more than a Wii and it does HD plus a host of other stuff.

A 4GB Xbox 360... Well have fun with that.

Should have added at least a 20GB hdd, because what can you download with 4GB!?

@PlayboyX unnnn a few songs for Rock Band 3??

@PlayboyX : Not a whole lot. Maybe 2 or 3 XBOX Live Arcade games at the most. You got the figure that you don't get the full 4GB of ro0m either because of other mandatory software and apps on he HDD.

I guess there only reasoning would be that this is a DIRECT shot at Nintendo to coax casual gamers away from the Wii. For a hardcore gamer a 4GB HDD is a slap in the face even with Kinect, but I'm sure they are "hoping" that this bundle will be more attractive than buying a Wii which only has 512 MB of flash memory(even though you can put a lot on that flash memory with all due fairness.)

@PlayboyX

Oh for the Love of God people, it's not a 4GB HDD (hard disk drive), it's 4GB of flash memory. The HDD slot is empty and you can add an HDD later if you want to. This is not for current uses who already have the HDD add-ons that snap on top of the old models.

@(Unverified) The Xbox 360 Arcade only had 512MB of memory like the Wii so they've added 8 times more memory. This is a pretty generous upgrade to the Core/Arcade system. They went from 0MB to 256MB to 512MB to 4GB. That is a huge upgrade and probably eliminates the need to ever purchase additional memory for almost half of Xbox 360 owners.

People who say oh well it's only $20 for more memory don't seem to realize that a $20 loss times millions of sales equals a lot of money lost. They are aiming the Arcade system at the casual audience that purchased Wii. 4GB is more than enough for someone who will probably buy the system and only a few casual games. Not to mention if they eventually want to use any of the video or music functionality on 360 they don't even need a HDD at all since it all streams from the internet.

People who say you can only fit a few arcade games are crazy. The average casual Arcade game is only about 50MB. That is about 80 games you can fit without buying a thumb drive. Even if you include the hardcore Arcade games and say that the average file size is 100MB for an Arcade game then you can fit 40 games. If you're buying that many games then you're not going to mind the cost of a16GB USB thumb drive or a HDD. True if you started using the system for Call of Duty and Halo map packs it would get filled up fast but that is not the intended audience for the device.

As someone who purchases multiple Xbox 360's for his home I really have no need to keep paying for additional HDDs either.

Lol 4GB.

Does it have wifi though?

@tann now if they didnt put Wifi in it that would be fcuked up as hell....

@tann

I'm wondering the same thing.

@tann http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/07/20/announcing-kinect-pricing-xbox-360-4-gb-console-and-holiday-bundle.aspx

Confirmed to have WiFi on Major Nelson's blog

they really should have scrapped ANY SKU with less than 120GBs at this point....4GBs is laughable at best.....thats less than the ORIGINAL Xbox had and that was before Games On Demand and installable games options....I swear I dont know what the people there are thinking.....

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

Well the 4GB is competing with the Wii, how does it compare to that?

Does the Wii have 120GB yet?

@Ordeith damn "competing" with the Wii...MS long ago said the Wii is no competition....I'll tell you what the Wii DOES do...allow me to use STANDARD SD cards...up to 32GBs of storage so I can get 2 32GB cards for less than the cost of adding a 60GB proprietary HDD to the 360....fact is they could have put a 120GB HDD on that thing and STILL sold it for $199...

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

Given that this has wi-fi built in, how would they distinguish it from the more expensive model then? $100 for a few extra gigglebits and a glossy finish?

Remember, this thing is 200 bucks, replacing the HD-less, wifi-less arcade model. Any storage at all is just a bonus.

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

"I'll tell you what the Wii DOES do...allow me to use STANDARD SD cards."

You realize the 360 works with USB drives now, right?

@Vcize uhhhhh120GB SKU to start off then a 250GB SKU as the "upgraded" model is a pretty big jump still....4GBs is NOTHING....espically for a console that prides itself on XBLM....a few XBLA games and its full...or if someone buys a few tracks for RB3....

so yea you can say that the 360 supports USB drives if you want...then I remind you that EACH drive is currently limited to 16GBs....so even if you plug in a 40GB drive it will only format a 16GB section....and that sir...is space/money wasted

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

The $200 360S is an ENTRY level budget sku, especially for people who do not have high speed internet. They aren't DOWNLOADING anything. The 4GB of flash memory is FOR game saves. However, when they do get the internets, they can ADD a 16GB thumb drive and grab a whole bunch of XBLA games, map packs, and RB songs. If they want the $300 250GB 360S then THAT is what they will buy, not this one. Geesh, do you EVER think of all that diarrhea that spews out of your mouth is gross.

@Vcize

So has it been confirmed that the new arcade model has wi-fi? If so, I am thinking media center extenders for every room.

I find this way more attractive than the shiny finish on the elite.

@ThatStuffsLethal It's probably far less of a dust magnet as well. I'm so worried about my shiny elite getting clogged with dust just mere weeks after getting it, I may take to covering it with a cloth when not in use.

Obviously I haven't seen it yet, but i'd imagine the matt black of the 4GB will look a lot better than the shiny 250GB. Kind of like the difference between the slim and the original PS3.

Shiny black plastic screams teh hardcorez too much for me

Overpriced. The Move/PS3 Bundle seems much more appealing to me for $100 more. Also, am I the only one who thinks the packaging for Kinect is really fugly?

@mikejsyndrome Who cares about the packaging? God help me, but I'm not going to be staring at an Xbox 360 box for 24/7.

@PlayboyX I know, I'm just saying that it's ugly packaging that might not make Kinect look appealing to consumers

@mikejsyndrome Can't dance like I can with the move! Besides a 100 dollars on Steam will get you a lot more during their holidays sales I bet 25$ would go a long way with the sales they are known for. :D

causing havoc!

@mikejsyndrome Until you add a second player, then you start paying more.

@mikejsyndrome

Much like the Kinect itself, I'm sure the new packaging is meant to appeal to a broader audience (aka casual gamers). Think like a Wii.

@PlayboyX About 80% of the consumers Microsoft is trying to attract with this thing - that's who cares about packaging. Well, at least subconsciously.

What a deal!

/s

I'm with you in this. I want to get one of the new 250s and the fiancée wants kinect. I guess I will just have to hold out.

Mmm, matte finish...

@PersonOfSorts Agreed, like the Matte finish much better. Still not the slim design I'd hoped for.

'Hoping for another game besides Kinect Adventures in your bundle? Greenberg noted that Kinect Adventures is it for bundles. "We feel like that's really the perfect title to include [...] It's got the great jump-in, jump-out multiplayer gameplay as well."'

- This, right here, cost them a sale. I probably would have snapped up a bundle with "Dance Central" or "Your Shape," but I just have no interest in Kinect Adventures and I'm not going to shell out $200 for one game.

@coil Why bundle those games in? Your going to buy them if you pick up Kinect. Plus it' would cost Microsoft a lot more to bundle that in over a 1st party. Bad business decision and no fail here. Glad they've added a game and glad that game is not Joyride.

looks like no Kinect for me...

Was hoping for a 350-400 bunde with the 250 gig HD.

Umm, not for me

€150? As usual everything for us is overpriced and very expensive, if you think $150 is high, try the $200 I would have to pay.

We all knew this was going to be $150 USD but we didn't know MS was going to be smart about bundling in software (MS made a really good choice of what software to add as well as this will showcase Kinect's family nature very well). I smell s*** loads of soccer moms buying this and the number of 360's in homes doubling very shortly.

@(Unverified) btw how the hell do I verify my account, if it was an email I never got it.

@(Unverified)

You have to re-declare your username if you haven't since the changeover.

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Kinect bundled with slim 4GB Xbox 360 Arcade for $300, new console for $200 in August

4GB Xbox 360 (standalone and Kinect bundle)

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