According to the blog article, the price will also be reduced in North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific regions. Then on October 4th, the price of the Kinect will be reduced in Australia and New Zealand. There are no specifics on how much it will be reduced in other areas, but you should expect a comparable price reduction as in the US.
If you don’t have a Kinect, you’re missing out on some groovy game play and console control. The Kinect games might not be for everybody, it does take some getting used to, but there’s more to it than just game control. It lets you navigate through the Xbox 360 Dashboard menus using its Voice Recognition feature. You just need to say “Xbox” and it pulls up a menu on your screen with commands you can say to get where you want to be.
It integrates with Microsoft’s search engine Bing. You say “Xbox Bing” then the name of the media you’re looking for. For instance, here I had it search for Star Trek. It shows the results of games, movies, streaming video and even music that’s on your console or available through Xbox Live.
Here’s a video from Inside Xbox that explains the how the voice control technology works and demonstrations of it in action.
What about you? Do you have an Xbox Kinect yet? Does this price drop make you want to get one?
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