HAHA, you are making a couple of serious flaws in your argument, are you sure you want to continue?

Allow me to enumerate:

1. I agree anecdotal evidence is relatively worthless.  So where's your proof that your viewing experience (ahem...which is ALSO anecdotal) is more accurate then mine?  Links please.
2. Where do you get a few million from?  Link me where you have Move's advertising budget please.

I'm not even arguing that Move has sold poorly, nor am I stating that Kinect has sold incredibly well.  I'm only stating that the "advertising argument" that is thrown around here like gospel is NOT to my knowledge verifiable. 

SO, let me ask you a direct question then, you have no idea how much Sony spent on Move advertising, do you? 

Prove me wrong, show me hard numbers and a link to prove it and I'll concede, no problem.

To be fair, I don't think many doubted the initial success of Kinect.  Heck, even most PS3 fans would tell you it was definitely going to outsell Move this holiday season.  However, what is most important is what happens when the holiday season is oover and we see which has better legs.  I have a feeling that Move may fair a little better in this category.

Regardless, good numbers for both.

Hmm, motion control wars amongst hardcore gamers. Never thought I'd see the day :P

It would be exactly the same if the products released were swapped by each company... if you know what im gettin at.

Actually believe it or not 100 for a polling sample is perfectly acceptable.

Its not that big of a joke seeing as Sony said their numbers were shipped to retailers and Microsoft said their numbers were sold through to customers.

Sony won't be around for the PS5, MS will have them backrupt by then. Then SEGA will have it's chance to reclaim it's rightful place in the industry, yay

To be honest without knowing the rate at which that $500M is being spent you cannot easily say how prolific the advertising spend is. For all we know it could be 12 months as easily as it could be 3 months. Anyway even if it is the 2 months to Christmas it is still around what Nintendo spends. Since Microsoft is significantly more profitable they can advertise more, on the other hand they could have simply cut the price of the console and Kinect instead. It is a tradeoff, and all is fair in business so long as it is ethical.

Congratulations - that was the biggest selfown of the week.

I am soooo sick of this 500m marketing budget excuse. People are using it, like it would be unfair or something. This is a business and don't hate on MS for doing something you wished Sony could and would do.

I honestly think that this was definitely expected, with Kinect being more innovative than Move. The buzz before release was also heavily weighted towards Kinect and a huge marketing budget would help too.

I'm really interested to see how both sell are in 2011...

But what I fear is that motion controls becoming the standard for gaming... I still want my traditional controller !!!

Where are you getting these percentages from ? o_O

Wishful thinking...the PS brand is still very strong in Europe and is expanding to countries that MS or Nintendo haven't....