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Barozi on 20 April 2012
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cookingyourmama said:

- It's an xbox360 exclusive unlike call of duty

Call of Duty bundle was exclusive to Xbox 360 and CoD is bigger than any Star Wars game in existence.

- It's also a kinect game which has the potential to bring in more brand new casual gamers then the 7th call of duty game of this generation, which has already reached market saturation point. If you were a fan of call of duty you'd already own an xbox360, unlike star wars kinect which is something new

Wrong and a typical mistake made by many people. Call of Duty attracts over 100k people to the 360 every year. Go check the charts. Big games ALWAYS bring new people to a platform. Next CoD will prove it once more. No other IP in the recent games had a similar effect on the HD consoles. Or why do you think CoD sells more and more every year if there weren't any new players ?

- Kinect is very important to microsoft, they see it as the way they're going to 'win' this and future generations, they're hyping and marketing star wars kinect more than call of duty and getting as many star wars xbox's out there is part of that.

I think you're exaggerating the hype a bit. CoD is earning MS more money than Star Wars currently and while it is important they KNOW that Kinect is only really doing well during the holidays and not during the slow weeks.

- Hands down it is the best limited edition console that has been released this generation, for the simple fact it looks, sounds and works great it will sell a lot.

As far as Kinect bundles go, yeah. I still prefer the CoDMW3 and the GeoW3 one.

- Star wars is much more than just a game, it has a huge following and this star wars console will be snapped up by many, many star wars collectors even if they're not gamers

While this is true, Star Wars didn't see much attention in any media lately. The huge hype has died down quite a bit.

- This is the first major huge exclusive game of the year that has been released for xbox and it's been all most 6 months since the last big xbox exclusive came out so microsoft are pushing this game and bundle hard

They're pushing it just like every other exclusive with the exception of Halo and Gears of War.

- Every shop or online retailer i go to has stacks of these limited edition star wars 360's on display, i can't say i saw any where near the amount of call of duty limited edition bundles over the holidays

Call of Duty bundles were sold out in its first week of appearance. Star Wars Kinect sold 18k in its first week in the UK and we know that 12% of that came from these bundles. So only 2k in the third biggest market of the world. Considering the first week sales are 420k globally means that many bundles are in stock naturally.

When i gave a list of potential shipment numbers i was making the point that nobody knows how many were shipped, 500,000 was just an extreme example. My personal opinion is it's roughly 200,000-300,000.

I'd say anything over 150k is already extremely exaggerated.