It seems like Kinect is taking a early lead over Move (Preorders)

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ImJustBayuum said:

snfr said:

You have to consider a few things here.

1. Most people who preorder it now are core gamers. Casuals don't even know about Kinect yet.

2. In America the userbase of the 360 is much bigger than the one of the PS3.

3. There aren't any console bundles available right now.

Especially number 1 and 2 combined are the reason for that. But don't get me wrong, I still think that Kinect will have more success and will lead to higher X360 sales in the end (except for Japan, Xbox360 is already almost dead there and it can't be revived by anything).

(1) =  I dont think core gamers care much about Kinect. And Kinect did get quiet alot of exposure during E3 through the Media and especially by microsoft. So alot more people (including casuals) knows about Kinect that we may think.

x360 is dead in Japan ever since it was released there..lol

You're partly right. But I think that there are a lot of core gamers who are excited about the technology and want to play some "funny" games with friends or their family. The way I see it: I think about 60-80% of the casuals who will buy Kinect in november don't even know about it right now. Or has advertising in America already started for Kinect? I don't really know. But I could be totally wrong about all that.

In Europe you can preorder Kinect at some shops at least, but there is no price set at the moment, so that there aren't many preorders isn't really a surprise.

I also have to add one thing: Kinect has been available for preorder for 10 days now, preorders could go down very quickly (of course only till their big advertising campaign starts).