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binary solo said:

My question is why Greenberg felt compelled to twit about it?

 

Anyone daring to suggest sales below 500K *Shock Horror!* even if it's only for the first couple 'o days might peev them a bit, because they want to manage sales info and for the first announcement of sales to be in the millions. The merest hint that there's a sub-million sales number out in the wild could be perceived as negative press for Kinect (even though it's not), in which case maybe it needs a low key rebuff through something like Twitter. And rebuffing in a way that also dismisses or discredits the source of the offending data helps to marginalise the reported number.

The idea that the sales are inaccurate make more sense as a motivator for me. They have real time data on Kinect activations so it isn't that hard for them to know with even more certainty than NPD how many Kinects are in use at the present time.



Tease.