Analyst: Kinect is $2B boon to gaming industry

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Darth Tigris said:

snakenobi said:

what do you mean by even more confirmed? i just said to wait an year so that we know the pattern of sales throughout the year.

kinect is doing awesome but don't forget its holiday period so sales are high and MS is spending MEGATON $500m which will sell almost anything.

and then too we won't know if it is a "game changer".for it to be a game changer,it needs to be like Wii,just race miles ahead of its compeitors and in this i don't mean competing with MOVE,the amount of 360's Kinect sells

For the record, that $500 mil is for the year, not for the holiday.  Its also not an unusual marketing number.

Also, I think we may just have different views of what is a game changer.  As the article states, alone it looks to generate some $2 bil in revenue.  People are having a blast with it, developers are excited to do cool and unique things with it, hackers are already getting creative with it and its been out for a little over a month.  

While I agree that I can't predict the future, but I guess its getting old to hear people fighting the trend.  Back in 2009, Project Natal excited the world with its potential.  Throughout 2010, it was highly anticipated and launch sales were predicted to be quite impressive.  So it launches and sells even BETTER than anticipated and demand continues through the holidays.  For people to believe and promote the possibility that demand will disappear after the holidays and this will be a 2 month fad, despite industry professionals and analysts clearly saying the opposite, gets a bit irritating here on this of all sites.  

Kinect is trending very, very well and there are no signs AT ALL that it will slow down signficantly, so why even dwell so much on something that is so unlikely?  I just don't understand ...

Ah hah, it's not dwelling they're doing rubbing hands with glee more like