themanwithnoname said:
kowenicki said:
themanwithnoname said:
kowenicki said:
thx1139 said:
abroZ said:
kowenicki said:
Kinect is just huge...
Bundle with Adventures could do close to 1 million next week... 5.5m by year end.
Kinect Sports will get close to 2.0m by year end.
Dance central will come close or pass 1.0m.
Kinectimal will pass 0.5m.
All of this will have happened in just 8 weeks.
Thats 10m software units attributable to Kinect by year end.
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Kinect hardware is indeed very strong, but the software is not. You could say software sales are good nothing more. Combined Kinect software (Kinect Adventures excluded) only sold 3,093,193 units in 6 weeks during the holidays. That's not impressive at all, just ok. I'm afraid Kinect software will have a rough struggle in the slow weeks after the holidays.
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So in 6 weeks 4 million Kinects have been sold and an additional 3 million units of software were also sold. Sounds pretty impressive to me. It isnt like you dont have a piece of software when you purchase a Kinect. You do either need to spend $150 on a standalone sensor or $300 minimum for a console bundle. How many of those 4 million are wrapped and sitting under a Christmas tree and additional software will be purchased after Christmas and into next year.
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Exactly...
Want to see the top 5 selling Wii games after 6 weeks on 30th december? (even better period for sales)
Wii Sports 2.5m (bundled)
Zelda: 1.8m
Wii Play: 778k (bundled with the extra controller)
Red Steel: 288k
Rayman RR: 226k
not very impressive that... doesnt look like that console and its software is going anywhere does it... ? 
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My favorite is that Metallicube keeps insisting it's Halo/Call of Duty/Slim that're why the 360 keeps selling so well. Of course, if you point out that Kinect Sports, an unbundled game, outsold Halo this week, he will promptly ignore your post, as he did mine in the Americas thread. Rather comical, but I expect nothing when it comes to trying to logically debate anybody on this site. 
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a good point very well made sir.
there is a lot of Wii supporting hatred for kinect isnt there...
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Oh yeah. It should also be noted that just about everything on Kinect is a new IP right now. It doesn't have a game like Zelda, which is almost guaranteed high sales numbers. Even Rayman, although RR is its own series, was an established IP when the Wii came out.
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But the 360 has a much larger install base ;)
I'm amazed by Kinect's sales, but without a constant flow of good games it'll dry up soon. I mean, how many big-profile Kinect games have a release date?
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