The 360 was dead last worldwide. Is MS in trouble?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

AussieGecko said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

If a >80M user base can't persuade 3rd parties, what can one that at best will be 16M by this year's end? Yes there are 1st parties, but that's a field in which Nintendo is incredibly stronger than MS. Add that 3DS and NGP will get all the attention, hype and thunder available next Xmas, and Wii2 will do it next year, the result is that whatever isn't already strong will suffer. But maybe you mean just in USA, UK and Australia, not WW: in that case, I agree with you, MS isn't in trouble there, the huge marketing campaign worked at its best in those countries. But elsewhere it was appalling, with appallling results, even a mildly successful new home console by Nintendo will blow Kinect away from the countries where it's already struggling.

wow I cant believe you truly believe this, Kinect is a new tech, unless Wii has something sooo similar but better Kinect will be developed for, Where I work (in aus) i havent heard of any devs etc but im getting Kinect developers en god damn masse. Its incredible. They are buying a Kinect without a need for a console. 

Now if all this is getting done on the PC a lot will be carried over to 360, if you dont think this then I honestly don't know what to say tbh

Experimental uses for Kinect on PC are a good thing, a very good one I'd say, but even if they could affect positively and significantly 360 in return, will they be able to do it in time? As I specified answering Lyrikalstylez, Kinect is not in trouble in USA, UK, Australia and other English speaking countries, but it is elsewhere, and if a lot of new platforms, devices and other novelties will fight for users' attention and money during the next Xmas and the year after, Kinect, that isn't new anymore and already had a huge launch marketing campaign, followed by another big one started before Easter and continuing right now, so drying up the novelty and hype factor, will have a hard time to grow where isn't already strong. Where it is, it will thrive, but where it isn't it will probably struggle. What Kinect achieved in some countries is outstanding, it crushed Balance Board without mercy, but for some reasons it wasn't able to do the same in the rest of the world.