@Chibi
While marketing may be important to market penetration. Recognition and interest in a product will not sell a product. It is part of a equation, and it is the variable given the least weight. The product still must fulfill a need. Have the right price point. Be of significant quality. Marketing is something added at the tail end. Everything else up front is being multiplied. I highly doubt you will find anyone in this thread that is going to argue that marketing alone sold them on buying a console.
Marketing might make for more disproportionate sales on impulse purchases. A console peripheral that costs a little less then the console itself. Now that is not a impulse buy. When people have to cough up a $150 for something they tend to actually weigh the pros and cons. They have to be able to rationally justify the purchase. Commercials cannot make that argument for them.
The Kinect is a very good product as far as peripherals go. People are just not that stupid as to fork out a good bit of cash simply, because a commercial told them to do that. There are a lot of heavily advertised products that fail miserably. The plain truth is that all the advertising in the world that can sell expensive crap. For one hundred and fifty bucks the product simply has to be good.
