Kinect Software Sales

[thx1139]

Yakuzaice said:

thx1139 said:
Still believe Kinect sales tracking is inaccurate. Gamasutra said that according to NPD 52% of 360s sold are with Kinect. Most of the time VGC has Kinect Adventures selling between 10% and 15% of 360 sales. That doesn't take into account any standalone Kinect sensor sales. Until this gets more accurate or NPD states that Kinect sales have plummeted compared to non Kinect 360s I have to believe the tracking is dubious.

Well Microsoft hasn't given us any numbers in nearly 8 months.  They even just put out an infographic a couple days ago that used the number from March.  If it has been 52%, that would another 1.6 million sell through with just console bundles in the Americas since that 10 million figure.  Add in standalone sales and Europe and they would probably be approaching 14 million shipped.  So they've either become very shy about giving numbers or there was a huge amount of stock left in the channel at the start of the year.

Also, if I recall correctly, it was 52% of 360's from kinect launch through July.  Not for that specific month.  Which pretty much gels with VGC's numbers.  They have 7,142,866 copies of Kinect Adventures sold and 7,039,047 360's sold in the Americas during that time period.  Remember that during the holidays, Kinect Adventures was selling more than the 360 (4.92 million vs 4.1 million for Nov/Dec).  So if you're arguing that it is still keeping with that 52% rate, then it was probably overtracked last year.  It also wasn't until May that KA fell under 52% of hardware sales, and it wasn't until September that it fell below 15% of hardware sales (barely, 14.4%), and it was over 20% in October.  So I'm not sure where you are getting that most of the time it is 10-15%.

Anyways it will probably all be cleared up next year if Microsoft gives updated numbers.  I assume they will unless it completely bombs this holiday.

Well that number came from  NPD via Gamasutra not Microsoft.  MS other than Kinect 1st 10 million and 360 big milestones hasnt made many sales annoucements.  I believe if sales had plummetted like this indicates then NPD would have mentioned it or it would leak like other nuggets have.  Dropping to 1 in 10 360 sales is with Kinect would have got mentioned.