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drkohler on 15 October 2010
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Fumanchu said:
drkohler said

As I already wrote in another thread, the reason for a large difference in numbers is the simple fact that many (if not the majority of) people initially buy the Starter pack (comes without a game in EU) without any move-specific software. That is clearly the case in Switzerland, and was also reported here for Spain. So far, the big shops here get 10:3:2 shipments (Starter packs:Dildos:Navs) - Eye pets/individual cameras  aren't even on shelves here.

Is it fair to say that a majority of people are just paying for the accessories without a game?

The surprising answer is Yes. This may be due to the demo kiosk set-up where people do the sword battle.

I can only report what I see, and I saw two simple things:

-ALL of the around a dozen people (all ages and gender) I actually saw buying the Starter pack bought no other software. Probably the sword thing is good enough for them (a.k. like the Wii who sold on baseball/bowling only initially). Subsequent move-specific software sales might trail Starter pack sales by several weeks.

-The "big" shops here got roughly 10:3:2 (SP/Dildos/Navs) units in the first two shipments (which sold out except for a few Starter packs). My guess is about 2-3'000 move units sold in Switzerland in the first 3 weeks.

My rudimentary guess is about 500'000-600'000 "move units" (which could be a single dildo for those who already have a camera) were sold in EMEA in the first month.