darthdevidem01 said:
MOVE and Kinect can be compared on some level...both are new peripherales launched recently. Why on earth anyone would wanna compare them to Wiimote sales is beyond me [start sarcasm] Hey hey lets compare MOVE/KINECT sales to Dualshock 3's and Xbox 360 Controllers while we're at it |
[/end sarcasm]Actually Darth, I don't think Kinect and Move can be that readily compared, despite the apparent similarities. Clearly everyone does want to compare them - including ioi in his comparison article that fell apart in the comments section to the degree he had to re-write aspects of it.
Move is a multi-configuration device that actually can be most easily compared, from a sales perspective, to the Wii seperate controller sales due to the almost exact matching of configuration.
Kinect however is a single configuration device.
What a lot of people really need to realise is that it is both hard - without clear ratio data which in this case is not available - and in some ways futile to compare a multi-configuration device to a single configuration device.
ioi, for example, wanted to use the standard 1.7 controllers per individual owner for Move, but as I noted in his article there is plenty of reason to believe this may not hold true for Move, particularly at this early point.
At this point it is likely that almost every Kinect sold represents a single user - it won't be absolutely true but very close. At this point Move could be anything from 1.5 units per user to 6 units per user, a huge spread of possibilites (although of course they are not all equally probably, I do doubt every Move owner has bought 6 units of controllers).
That's really not that easy to compare from a sales perspective.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
