Was in Best Buy grabbing my nice new Sony Blu-Ray player (my old one didn't have Bravia Internet TV on it) and spoke to a dude who said "Launch has been pretty poor". I asked what kind of sales they had been having but he wouldn't go into numbers but said "alot lower then our expectations". Now what was also interesting is they didn't have the boxes out in the stores so you can see how many they had. They instead had a little shelf with these little cd cases with Move Starter pack picture on them. You then took them to the front desk and they gave you the box. So because these cd's were then just returned to the shelf after buying it was really difficult to gauge how they had done. Previously they just bung out every box they have into a massive pile and when the pile is gone it is sold out. So a bit different. I wonder if that was a Sony thing or a store thing? Because of that it just appeared like no advertising had been done at all for it. No posters, no demonstration booth, no nothing.
In contrast you look to your right and see this massive poster the size of the world advertising Reach and below it was a sign saying "One legendary Box per customer" but there was no boxes, just a sort of crate that they once stood on.
Which makes me think wtf were Sony doing in releasing it only a day or so after Reach's release? Did they think people would come in looking for Reach and see Move out the corner of their eye, pick up the little CD case, see the £44 price tag and go "feck it i will buy this instead?".
