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Stadelhuber on 03 January 2011
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ArnoldRimmer said:
toastboy44562 said:
Kinect is completely destroying Eye Toy in aligned launches, despite having a far smaller userbase. I think this happened because a lot of people were hungry for something a little new
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Europe and Americans are loving this so much.

I think there are other reasons.

For example a bigass 500 million dollar marketing budget - that's 100 dollars spent on advertising etc. for every single person who bought Kinect so far! Microsoft obviously didn't believe that the device would become a success without massive advertising.

And Kinect is by far not as popular in Europe as it is in the USA. It's absolutely no problem to get Kinect bundles over here, it actually rather seems that Microsoft is rather overshipping Kinect bundles to Europe, as many european Amazon stores are already selling the bundles at heavily discounted prices (for example over 20 Euros less than the official price in my country).

Oh, advertisement ist something bad?

Do you know the budget of Sony or Nintendo? Here in Germany there were masses of TV-Ads for Move and GT 5. That is something complete different, isn't it? On Nick nearly every advertisement-break was filled with Wii-Products. Unfair, isn't it? 

After the holidays nearly every big retailer discounts Hardware. You can get  in Germany discounts on the PS 3, the Wii, the DS, the 360. They all failed during the holidays?