Although the Microsoft store and many retailers have had the motion control system priced at $150 for some time, the company had refused to confirm the price, officially.
Today, the mystery is no longer a mystery, as Microsoft has confirmed the official price is in fact $150. The system will ship November 4th as leaked, and will come bundled with “Kinect Adventures.”
Additionally, Microsoft has launched a new slim model of the Xbox 360, which will replace the current Xbox 360 Arcade model.
The new system will have 4GB of internal flash memory and matte finish and will launch August 3rd for $200.
As a bundle, you can get the new slim system and Kinect (with ‘Adventures’) for $300.
Kinect games will sell for $50.
Result for: flash memory
Toshiba and SanDisk have announced a new joint venture to create an advanced NAND flash memory chip factory in Japan, as a way to keep ahead of strong growth in the market for the chips.
For their part, SanDisk will “pay for part of the production equipment at the factory,” which will be overall run by Toshiba.
Both companies will share output from the factory. The companies have worked very closely together in the past in similar agreements, including NAND flash plants.
“Construction of the new fab reflects expectations for increasing demand for NAND flash memory for existing and emerging applications, such as smartphones and solid-state drives,” reads a joint statement.
The factory will be called Fab 5 and is already in construction.
It is unclear how much the companies are investing to create the factory.
Result for: flash memory
SanDisk has announced they have begun shipping 32GB microSDHC cards, the largest capacity available for the memory card line.
Current microSD cards max out at 16GB but SanDisk had promised the 32GB cards would go into mass production in January.
Speaking of the microSD card and other new flash memory improvements, SanDisk said at that time: “The 64GB embedded memory, moviNAND, and the 32GB microSD card each greatly expand the data storage density of mobile devices, meeting customers’ memory requirements and ushering in a new era of mobile and IT device capacity growth.”
While 1GB, 2GB and 4GB versions retail for under $15 USD, this new 32GB card has an MSRP of $200.
