didnt the Move sell like 4.1m in its first two months? Like apples record of 2m in two months.

The iPad is set to become the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history, with initial sales running at three times that of the current record holder: the DVD player.

“The iPad did not seem destined to be a runaway product success straight out of the box,” retail analyst Colin McGranahan of Bernstein Research wrote in an investors’ note. “By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion.”

At the current rate, the iPad will become the 4th biggest consumer electronics category by the end of next year, with estimated sales of more than $9 billion in the U.S. It will be bigger than game hardware and cell phones, trailing only TVs, smartphones and notebook PCs — the current three biggest categories. But these are product categories — and there’s only one iPad.

Apple sold three million units in the first 80 days after the iPad’s April release. Apple is currently selling about 4.5 million units per quarter, Bernstein Research estimates. By comparison, the previous fastest-selling CE device that wasn’t a phone — the DVD player – sold 350,000 units.

Bernstein notes that the iPad is not only cannibalizing sales of netbooks and notebooks, it may also be hurting sales of TVs and digital cameras.

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Since there already is a category for Kinect, this logic fails?

Apple likes to claim things.

For the record, according to vgchartz, the wii sold 3.7Millions in its first 2 monthes.

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons[]=Wii&reg[]=Total&start=39047&end=39103


Usually, when apple claims something, you just make a little research and BOOOOOM!! it's wrong. Or right under some circonstances, or their data comes from unknow sources.

Well, you can play games other than KA on Kinect. You can play games other than WF on Balance Board. Since you can also play games other than WS and WSR on the Wii, I guess they're all video game consoles?

Honestly, while it's kinda obvious that the Balance Board was made for Wii Fit, it could be argued that Kinect was made for Kinect Adventures and this, whilst completely ridiculous, can't really be argued against.

The fact the Wii sold 6,836,365 units last December doesn't kind off throw away this 25 day record?

If you can compare the sales between a camera and a Tablet, I'm sure that comparing to a console isn't that far fetched.

This iPAD record, just to start with, is laughable. It could be the fastest selling tablet, but definitely not the fastest selling electronic... I repeat: The Wii sold almost 7 million units. More than double of that.

Exactly. This is why I don't classify either as gadgets.

I wonder how much they spent on advertising. Apple and Microsoft.  I would love to know how directly the amount correlates with sales.  They spent a lot.

I wonder what Malstrom has to say about this?

I actually agree with you there, :P. Was just saying that if Kinect is classified as one, the Balance Board should be too.

Whether it's actually a good comparison or if this record actually belongs to Kinect is debatable, but it's doing impressive numbers none the less.

Now show me some games I actually want!