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I have a friend that works for Lego and stocks stores for the whole Dallas area and a lot of those are Wal-Marts.  I asked him about Kinect supplies at Wal-Marts and he said they had a pretty fair amount.  I looked at my Wal-Mart yesterday and all I saw were two 4GB bundles but the Best Buy still had loads of them.

As for the Kinect itself, I'm loving the Hell out of it.  I can't wait until more of the dashboard is included in the Kinect Hub (mainly Netflix) because the voice controls are just cool.  I'm a little dissapointed with how they implemented voice and Kinect controls in Zune, it's really hard to browse or find what exactly you want.

For the games, Your Shape tore me up yesterday and I've had a blast with Kinect Adventures.  I had a few friends over Friday night and we played it for hours and all had a great time.

As for space, I'm a little surprised my living room is still a little small since my office is even smaller and it works fine there.



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I'll take a wait and see aproach on this. I never get something right away. lol



so i finally got out to a store, target specifically in chicago.  i was kind of surprised but they had 3 kinect sensors, 1 arcade bundle and 1 250 Gb bundle out which made up the entire area target devoted to kinect.  i guess i was expecting by now things to be sold out.  i didn't ask about how many they had or if they had any more in back.

software wise, most games had about the same amount on stock as any other game target typically carries.  BUT...dance central and kinect sports were both sold out.  seems odd to me they could sell out on software before hardware.  to me that means they have quite a bit more hardware shipped but that's just a guess.

anyways, that's my anecdotal evidence.



kitler53 said:

so i finally got out to a store, target specifically in chicago.  i was kind of surprised but they had 3 kinect sensors, 1 arcade bundle and 1 250 Gb bundle out which made up the entire area target devoted to kinect.  i guess i was expecting by now things to be sold out.  i didn't ask about how many they had or if they had any more in back.

software wise, most games had about the same amount on stock as any other game target typically carries.  BUT...dance central and kinect sports were both sold out.  seems odd to me they could sell out on software before hardware.  to me that means they have quite a bit more hardware shipped but that's just a guess.

anyways, that's my anecdotal evidence.

Typically retail stores get shipments twice a week, usually Tuesday and Saturday.  So it could be that they just got a shipment yesterday and haven't re-sold out yet.

I have a similar mixed experience.  The Best Buy that usually has oodles and oodles of systems of every kind was sold out of Kinect Sensors but had plenty of bundles still left.  The GameStop I went to was sold out of sensors but had a few bundles left. The Walmart I went to yesterday, on the other hand, had 6 Kinect Sensors left and only a few bundles.  So perhaps some stores are selling way more bundles, which is a great thing, and some are selling more sensors, which is also good to see the existing userbase purchasing it.



nightsurge said:
kitler53 said:

so i finally got out to a store, target specifically in chicago.  i was kind of surprised but they had 3 kinect sensors, 1 arcade bundle and 1 250 Gb bundle out which made up the entire area target devoted to kinect.  i guess i was expecting by now things to be sold out.  i didn't ask about how many they had or if they had any more in back.

software wise, most games had about the same amount on stock as any other game target typically carries.  BUT...dance central and kinect sports were both sold out.  seems odd to me they could sell out on software before hardware.  to me that means they have quite a bit more hardware shipped but that's just a guess.

anyways, that's my anecdotal evidence.

Typically retail stores get shipments twice a week, usually Tuesday and Saturday.  So it could be that they just got a shipment yesterday and haven't re-sold out yet.

I have a similar mixed experience.  The Best Buy that usually has oodles and oodles of systems of every kind was sold out of Kinect Sensors but had plenty of bundles still left.  The GameStop I went to was sold out of sensors but had a few bundles left. The Walmart I went to yesterday, on the other hand, had 6 Kinect Sensors left and only a few bundles.  So perhaps some stores are selling way more bundles, which is a great thing, and some are selling more sensors, which is also good to see the existing userbase purchasing it.

yeah, could mean a second shipment.  like i said i didn't ask, just observed what was on the shelves.  but i will say this, it warms my heart that of all the games to be sold out dance central was one of them.  of all the kinect games that one deserves to sell the best.



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I went into a store today, still no Kinects, Kinect bundles, and 4GB Xbox 360s. However there were plenty of 250GB Xbox 360s. I had a look and there were no stores I could find with any of that.



Tease.

I was visiting the mom-in-law this past weekend.  Yesterday, there was plenty of Kinect in stock at Best Buy...



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Jordahn said:

I was visiting the mom-in-law this past weekend.  Yesterday, there was plenty of Kinect in stock at Best Buy...

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Those images are not in stock my friend.



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11/20/09 04:25 makingmusic476 Warning Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.)
psrock said:

Those images are not in stock my friend.


Sorry.  I finally got it to work right.



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The images are huge. Can't be arsed adjusting them to fit them in the thread. Just click the links. Plenty in stock...

And you're welcome, Jordahn

Edit: You edited them in. Awesome.