Kinect Gets Its Dance On Sold Separately

<p>The Xbox One and Kinect 2&period;0 <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;microsoft-offers-xbox-one-without-kinect&sol;">formally parted ways last June<&sol;a> following Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s announcement of the de-bundling of the two last May and since then&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s been a mystery how much the system&&num;8217&semi;s motion control peripheral device would sell for all by its lonesome&period; Now it looks like the Kinect&&num;8217&semi;s solo act is going to cost you a prettier penny&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new-gen Kinect will go on sale on this <strong>October 7th<&sol;strong> for <strong>&dollar;149&period;99 <&sol;strong>and will come with the downloadable Harmonix title <em>Dance Central Spotlight&period; <&sol;em>The downloadable title comes out over a month after its <strong>September 2nd <&sol;strong>release&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Word of the bundle comes on the heels of website WP Central&&num;8217&semi;s claim that the peripheral would go on sale &&num;8220&semi;on or around&&num;8221&semi; October 16 for &dollar;149 in the U&period;S&period; first&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In July&comma; another listing appeared on the Microsoft online store for a standalone Kinect 2&period;0 for PC for &dollar;199&comma; but Microsoft has not confirmed when &lpar;and if&rpar; the peripheral will be sold separately for the Xbox One&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this year the company retailed the Xbox One minus the Kinect starting at &dollar;399&period; Several bundles include the recent white Xbox One&comma; previously available only to Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s Xbox team&comma; at retail packaged with Insomniac&&num;8217&semi;s third-person shooter <em>Sunset Overdrive <&sol;em>for &dollar;399 as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tel us&colon; Have you bought an Xbox One without the Kinect&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wpcentral&period;com&sol;xbox-one-kinect-stand-alone-october-149">WP Central<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;computerandvideogames&period;com&sol;475362&sol;update-standalone-xbox-one-kinect-launching-in-october&sol;&quest;cid&equals;OTC-RSS&amp&semi;attr&equals;CVG-General-RSS">CVG<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;