Initial Kinect Sales!!!!

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heruamon said:

IMU1808 said:

heruamon said:

300K would have been okay...riding the high end to almost 500K is freaking incredible.  Now what the deniers begin their same old tired song.  Blah Blah blah…M$ spent $500 million to promote this, and they have them everywhere…blah blah blah…BS and nonsense, of course.  I don’t watch a ton of TV, but I’ve seen NO kinect ads during sport events on the tube…zippo.  This is freaking awesome, and it was on sales on 3 days…for a $149 device, which A LOT of people said would never sell.  To boot, look at those software sales…the companies who worked on kinect are going to bank some cash, since their games are going to probably be the staple of titles over the holiday season.  Looks like Greenberg wasn’t just yapping hot gas…

Buddy... It's the same on both sides of the fence... I point you to the threads after SONY's comments on Move support.

Wait...move haters said it would fail, and when it didn't, said it was because Sony is pushing move too hard on consumers?  link please....

What?

I'm talking about the reaction to SONY's comments on move's performance. Initial sales weren't impressive. Patcher's prediction was low. Everyone figured VGC was right on the money with their predictions.

Then SONY said they shipped 2.5M, demand was strong and they ramped up production twice. Haters went on the usual rant. Then Patcher retracts his earlier statement and says Move's doing better than he originally expected. Haters still moaned on. Then VGC comes out and says that the number they gave were guestimates for # of unique users and not actual sales [Which I still say was a very dumb thing to do... You would expect actual sell through numbers AND THEN if anything, VGC can give some estimate as to what they think are unique users and make sure to label what it is they're estimating and how they're doing it].

My point is that with the launch of move, even with SONY them selves saying the thing is doing very well, people were still raging out instead of waiting for some decent numbers. Same is happening here with Kinect.