| Reasonable said: Can I hazard that: 1 - people need to stop focusing on SW to judge Move sales. A quick search of a few online sites shows that the bundle is charting higher than SW. I'd guess many casual purchasers won't realize until they get it and play the demos they don't even have a full game yet. In short, it's perfectly possible, and supported to an extent by online retail sales charts, that demand for the Move hardware is higher than the available software (wow, it's just like PS3 launch all over again!)
2 - a Move unit is almost certainly any Move branded HW, which would be the Bundle, the Move Wand and the Navi. I'll eat a crow pie if each of those sold isn't treated as a Move unit by Sony. So if 2.5 million has been shipped then that will comprise Bundles, Move Wands and Navis
Thinking about the OP some more - whether Move sells more depends upon what you count as a sale. If it's just units, then Move might well. I've bought 2 Wands and a Navi which means 3 units sold for Sony, each almost certainly at a profit, whereas if I get Kinect that will be a single unit purchase. So given each customer can purchase far more units of Move, as a peripheral it has a fair shot at selling more by units. But in terms of customer base I expect Kinect to do better, at least initially anyway. After the launch of Kinect it'll be down to legs and word of mouth for each. |
I was thinking about this earlier and came to the conclusion that Move will probably generate similar revenue as Kinect, possibly more over time if multiplayer games become popular enough. Much like the Wii, the PS3 has the potential to sell a lot of controllers, each of which are highly profitable.
And if the typical Move consumer isn't buying multiple controllers, then it can only mean that the total number of units sold is that much closer to the actual installed user base.
If the typical buyer is spending $150 on a starter pack and an extra controller, you'd have well over a 1m installed user base given 2.5m units sold (less likely). If that number is under 1m, then the assumption has to be that either SCE is either selling a lot of nav-cons (they seem to be in stock everywhere, so unless they greatly overshipped it seems less likely) or quite a few consumers are buying at least two extra controllers (one extra seems more likely).
If that were the case, then there's a significant portion of users who are spending anywhere from $150 to $200 on Move. I'd be more inclined to believe that there are more unique users (who only bought a starter pack or one controller) than the former.
