Will Kinect Adventures pre-orders hit 1 million in Americas a lone?

[Michael-5]

saicho said:

Michael-5 said:

No, not in Americas Pre-Orders alone. In Worldwide pre-orders I think it will because Kinect will probably see at least 30% of its sales in EMEAA and Japan, maybe even 40% of its sales.

I beleive this because games like Black Ops, Halo Reach, and Modern Warfare 2 has Pre-orders of 500k with 10 weeks left and increased 70k per week. Okay those games are getting much closer to 2 million Pre-orders, but still.

I see Kinect selling very well, over a million consoles in each Americas and EMEAA region on week 1 alone. However I don't think it will pick up pre-orders. This is a game primarily for casual gamers, just like how Wii Party will sell over 10 million, but at best get 100k pre-orders. I think the same for Kinect, high sales, but low pre-orders. Not that a total of 1 million worldwide pre-orders isn't much.

I'm not even sure if it happened for any console or console addons. Usually the supply for launch is limited. Even if there is crazy demand for Kinect, it's unlikely to happen.

Generally console on console add ons are failures alltogether (Sega CD, 32X, Nintendo Disk Drive, etc), however the Kinect is different. It doesn't do what the 360 does, but better (like past add ons), it does something new, innovative.

Also Wii Fit sold 1.6 million units in week one, and it didn't run out of supply, and it kept selling above 250k for the 20 first weeks VGChartz has it recorded (I could look week by week, but meehhhh). Kinect isn't expensive to produce, it's made in the same chinese factory as the Iphone is (so it will be terribly unreliable). It's possible to make millions of Kinects so long as the demand is there, and I feel the demand will be there.