Has the Playstation Move's apparent success made people go crazy?

[Shadowblind]

CGI-Quality said:

Shadowblind said:

Both Sony and Microsoft's intentions with the new hardware is simply to try and replicate the Wii's success. Anyone who seems to believe otherwise is fooling themselves. Given this, I've seen both sides hype their respectie motion controllers to very high degrees; Sony not as much as Microsoft, but still a very considerable amount.

While I don't know much about the Moves sales (thus I cannot engage in discussion for or against them) I've seen some extremely poorly presented arguments in this thread, specifically ones that claim Sony did not have high expectations for Move.

They did. Its natural they would. And it makes sense they would be happy to have 2.5 million Moves sold to retailers. Thats an impressive number, no matter how you look at it.

The poorly presented argument is that somehow, Sony expected a game changer in Move. Nobody argued hype, but the levels of hype claimed by some are bogus.

They expected a slow burner, no matter how their words are twisted/broken/changed/spun. Regardless of what anyone thinks of it's current numbers, Move isn't a true success/failure until we hear from Sony.

But claiming that Sony/Sony fans expected Move to be a "gaming revolution" sounds far fetched to me.

I agree that Sony never expected it to be a "game changer". They expected it to be successful, which it was. I forgot to mention those arguments in my original post, though I had them on my mind as well.  Bottom line is that I think Move is doing fine for what Sony expected it to do.

That said, I'm not entirely sure what Sony expected. If they believed Move should have been a game changer, they shouldn't have. Given the launch titles, though, I assume they are expecting true success to happen around the time of Killzone 3 and Socom 4. If they were, I'd imagine they'd be rather happy about the amount they have sold leading up to that, given that its this high.