Kinect is on pace to be the fastest-selling device of all time

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kowenicki said:

PlaystaionGamer said:

Kinect is selling amazingly and that will continue for a long time!

but... iphone 4 sold 16.5million in 3 months (in the summer period). Kinect has sold 4 million in a month at christmas. How is it even close to the fastest selling device of all time? 

this puzzles me too... I have seen other claims like this one, its like phones dont count or something?

They don't count phones and certain other devices - so it's a bit of a caveated 'best'.

I don't get the rules for where they draw the line.  If you check some of the source posts for the Ipad for example you'll see they note phones are not included.  I'm also not sure if the 'best' is global or US, all the sources seem a little ambivient there.  It's also a hard comparison as obviously price is a factor, and iPad's, for example, are a lot more expensive.

Still, huge sales as a new peripheral at that price point, whichever way you look at it, certainly outperformed my expectations.  I thought it would sell well in US but not at that level, and I thought price/space would hold in back in UK but in both cases I was too pessimistic.