{"id":6559,"date":"2010-06-30T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"big-surprise-kinect-preorders-are-very-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/6559-big-surprise-kinect-preorders-are-very-low","title":{"rendered":"BIG SURPRISE: Kinect preorders are \u201cvery low\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Microsoft&rsquo;s prepping their controller-free controller for an October release, but apparently nobody much cares. Take that, Cirque du Soleil&rsquo;s infallible elephant puppet.<\/p>\n<p>According to UK retailer, ShopTo, preorders for the Kinect add-on are &ldquo;very low&rdquo;, possibly (probably) because of its 129.99 GBP price tag. Talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/shopto-calls-for-lower-uk-kinect-price\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>, ShopTo guy Igor Cipolletta points out the flaming obvious, saying, &ldquo;It&#8217;s too high. We believe that with this current economy it should be around 70 GBP. For 140 GBP you can buy a Wii.&rdquo; And at least the Wii has Dead Space: Extraction.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that 129.99 GBP price is still technically a placeholder until Microsoft stops prevaricating and admits that&rsquo;s the actual price, but until there&rsquo;s a catalogue of proper games to go with it, who really wants one anyway? I mean, Kinectimals looks sort of fun, but there&rsquo;s really only so many minutes I can ignore a crying tiger before it gets boring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK retailer blames high price point, probably secretly also the rubbish launch titles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}