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Icyedge on 29 October 2010
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reidlosdog said:
Icyedge said:
reidlosdog said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
reidlosdog said:
Euphoria14 said:

Sony Corp.’s Playstation Move controller for the Playstation 3 held an sold out status at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s online division this week due to high demand of the peripheral.

This week, the Playstation Move product page at Walmart.com disclaimed an out of stock status.

Additionally, this week the Playstation Move product page at GameStop.com disclaimed a ‘Backordered’ status.

Finally, this week the Playstation Move product page at Amazon.com disclaimed a ship time of two to four weeks.

 http://news.punchjump.com/blog/2010/10/27/playstation-move-ps3-sold-out-at-wal-mart/

And Kinect is sold out everywhere.  It's pretty amazing isn't it?  The peripheral hasn't even come out yet and it's sold out.  Wonder if that says anything...

 


It means MS is spending 500mil on a marketing campaign while sony is getting a simillar good result for fraction of the cost.

They aren't getting a good result.  Just because they are shipping well now, doesn't mean it will continue.  Sales have continously gone down every week for the Move, despite the Christmas frenzy that has already begun.  I can gaurentee you that MS understood that 500 mill was spent so that people are actually going to buy the 360 system, which is $300 bucks.  300 x 2,000,000 (MS's lowest aproximation)= 600,000,000 dollars in the first quarter.  put that up to the highest estimation:  300 x 4,000,000 = 1,200,000,000, in the first quarter.  Not very many people are actually going to buy the 150 kinect, cause it's too expensive.  Everyone here has stated that.  MS has done this so that their cream of the crop is going to be the casual gamer this fall.  And just like how pachter predicted this coming spring, the 360 will see a price drop, along with a Kinect price drop.  Both of these price drops will sky rocket sales.

People enjoy the Kinect (including myself) enough to just play with this interface.  Watching a movie is actually fun.  It's amazing.  LIterally.  There is nothing in this room except you, your t.v, and your xbox 360 kinect bundle.  And your watching t.v.  No remotes, no controllers, just awesomeness.

The interface alone drives people crazy (MS has actually done studies on just the interface alone, and they  have yielded these results).

We are the 28th of october... At least dont use the words "frenzy" and "already begun".

On another note, Microsoft spent 500 million on marketing because they had too. Spending so much on marketing is not something to brag about. Other companies can spend much less on their product and be successful or as successful.

Yes!!! With this logic, I can do anything!!!

I could easily sell anything I want at half the cost because my product is better!!!

Microsoft doesn't "have" to spend that money.  They already make bank on the existing sales.  You put in money to get money, and you invest in things that show a lot of possibilities for growth.  If you believe the product will do well, then you invest in it.  Show me a product that has made more money than it's competitors and didn't have as much commercial time as it's competitiors in it's infancy.

What comes to mind?  Minecraft?  That's about it.  When something actually makes it to a commercial (or into commercialization), it means that it has gone under rigorous analyzing and has been seen as well worth the cost (when speaking of commercializaiton on a national scale, local economy's differ when it comes to this idea).

I have a feeling your going to understand this as much as euphoria.  So, to make it more simple, let's wait 1 week, yeah, 1 week, and tell me what you think about kinect sales.

You failed to grasp the point. They certainly spent so much because they felt they had too. As example, since you want one, Kinect will probably never sell more than Wii. But Nintendo didnt spend so much on marketing. Why you ask. Because Nintendo was confident their product would work without investing that much in marketing.

Theres could be literally hundreads of examples since no company spend that much marketing for one product. 500 millions, dont you realise thats enormous.