Kinect : $500 million in marketing, Will be bigger than Jesus!

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theprof00 said:

Legend11 said:

Kinect may just save the industry from its current downward spiral and expand its audience well beyond even what the Wii managed to achieve.  So all gamers should be showing it and Microsoft some gratitude instead of the hate some are giving it.

Why do people keep bringing up this downward spiral?

Where's the proof?

But hardware sales are down 13%! :P

OT: Some people seem to miss that this is also going to spur interest in the system itself and that much of the money will come back from the software side.

Sure it's a big budget, but if the 2 billion development cost is true you should put it in perspective, as it would be adding just about 22% to the total volume needed to sell to break even if compared to a 50 mil budget. So either 500 mil is a much better deal than say 50 mil or they already got themselves way too deep in even before factoring this.