thx1139 said:
BMaker11 said:
AussieGecko said:
BMaker11 said:
bannedagain said:
Typical for haters to come in and add that they think it's because jesus presented it on mtv one night. If it sucked it would have flopped by now. I see Just as many adds for move but yet I don't see the sales that Kinect has recieved.
You know the reason people bought it around me, THEY TRIED IT. Thats over 5 people that bought it because they liked it. Not because the adds are so convincing that people just will go blow 300 like that. It's because it's a good product.
HERE COME THE HATERS. ARE THESE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE THAT SAY OR DID SAY BASICALLY THE SAME THING ABOUT THE WII.
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You have seen a few different Kevin Butler ads on TV. Kinect had Burger King, Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, Walmart, etc.
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people really need to stop typing etc when they have nothing else to add.
Yes initial sales are to do with advertising. As some people are saying the fact that it is still going strong is a lot to do with word of mouth
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He said there's just as many Move ads as there are Kinect ads.....which just isn't true. Not to mention everything that Kinect did beyond conventional ads. I hardly consider it "having nothing else to add" when #1 dude was completely wrong, and #2 it was in directly addressing Kinect's sales based upon advertising and word of mouth.
Now, let's put this all together. Kinect = more and better advertisement ---> more sales ---> more word of mouth. The great advertising is an indirect cause of more word of mouth. That's all anyone who disagrees with the thread OP is trying to say.
You don't get word of mouth without the sales. And you don't get the sales without the advertisements
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Would the more word of mouth be positive word of mouth if the product wasnt meeting expectations?
You dont get positive word of mouth with a negative product.
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I edited a screw up I made in that post, but you understood it just fine lol
Anyway, would it get positive word of mouth if it were a bad product? Obviously not, but advertising leads to more sales. More people = more potential sales based on word of mouth.
If 100 people bought Kinect and they all told 2 people how great it was, that could result in 200 more sales. But where did those initial sales come from?
If it wasn't advertised as well, then the initial sales could be like 60-70 people. They could all still give it positive word of mouth to those same 2 people, but the sales would be 120-140 (obviously less than 200).
Let's come to an agreement. Advertising and word of mouth go hand in hand (if the product is good). If you advertise well, you make more and more people cognizant of your product, and if it's good, they'll tell others about it, which will lead to sustained sales. *ALL* I was trying to say is that without the $500M ad budget, Kinect wouldn't have sold nearly as high, therefore it wouldn't have had such high initial sales, which means although the word of mouth could be great, the sustained sales would would less than what they are now
