By claiming that it's got 500M budget in marketing.

You do realize that it has to be a product that people want in the first place?

Marketing help spread the awareness telling the (casual) people that such a device exist and they may be interested.

Yes, marketing helps, but that's not all the product has. It's an interesting device and there are already so many homebrew for Kinect already.

Are you butthurt by Kinect because it's selling more than your system of choice?

Off-topic: I'm actually seeing ads for it in the Middle East. Pretty interesting, as I almost NEVER see ads for anything gaming-related here.

i was a 360 fan until kinect got released,now their is just coming casual gamers and microsoft has their focus on them now,we hardcore gamers are just getting Gears Of War 3(which will be awesome but it's just one game) I have a ps3 too so will prabably use it much more this year.

Thats what you call a poll? i presume the butt hurts option is because your butt hurts from the attention steve ballmer gives it?

Your poll sucks. There should be an option saying "haters gonna hate."

Now getting back to the topic...

Well, you're completely wrong there. I think more research is in order.

As for the  $500 million marketing, that money is to market Kinect for the next 5 years.

*sigh*.  Another silly poll with silly poll options.

Can we save bandwidth and site space by stopping the deluge of posts pro/against hardware?(especially these inflammatory ones)

The site is about tracking and discussing sales data, not a personal flame/deflame forum to back your personal favorites...

Anyother thread like this????

Seriously these threads are getting pretty tiring.

Mama Mia!

Because we're tired, Galaki.  We're tired.  

And now that Kinect is successful, guess what's next?  Minority Report, that's what.  Fucking PreCogs arresting us for crimes BEFORE we even comit them,  And then, Skynet.  Goddam Judgement Day (or The Matrix.  I don't fucking know.).  Nothing good will come from Kinect being suuccessful.  And yes.  I am butthurt.  That poop was too big.  Too big.

''By claiming that it's got 500M budget in marketing''

That is an insane amount of money to spend on something that isn't giving us the gaming experiences we were dreaming about when we heard of it.

''You do realize that it has to be a product that people want in the first place?''

No way. We are all being brainwashed all the time in different ways.'

''Are you butthurt by Kinect because it's selling more than your system of choice?''

Nay, I am but hurt (see what I did there?) because so much money has been poured into a gaming device that still doesn't have anything close to a killer ap. And then every Tom, Dick and Harry believes he needs to own the thing because the Wii is so last year.

People who get pissed off at a rival console's sale figures are pretty sad.

People who are rejoicing because Microsoft are making money on something which isn't that cool are losers.