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Barozi said:
Call of Duty bundle was exclusive to Xbox 360 and CoD is bigger than any Star Wars game in existence.
Never said that the call of duty bundle wasn't exclusive to the xbox360 nor that it doesn't out sell star wars games.
Doesn't prove at all in the slightest that more call of duty of bundles were shipped tho.
Fact is we know the numbers of CoD bundles. Fact is you only got that bundle for Xbox 360 thus it was exclusive to that platform. Star Wars Kinect is an exlcusive game, but certainly not the biggest exclusive out there, so the exclusivity only really shows in software sales.
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?
The problem with that is call of duty is released during the holidays and you have no idea how much of the
increase is due to seasonal numbers, stand alone purchases or bundle purchases. And for the record call of
duty doesn't sell more and more every year, the latest call of duty is down on what the previous one sold.
but you can easily measure the drop off in the next week ! Again we know the number of CoD bundles and that they were sold out in the first week. The rest are stand alone purchases.
One analyst claims it was down (without having access to all markets). We don't.
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.
Nope not exaggerating anything. Kinect has been the main focus of Microsoft for the past two E3's and they've spent
a record amount of money advertising it as well. Kinect sells best during the holidays but Microsoft would like it
to sell all year long and the only way they are going to do that is releasing huge kinect games at other times of
the year and marketing the hell out of them like they've done with kinect star wars.
and that's their first approach and won't ship hundreds of thousands bundles for testing how many new Kinect owners they could attract. In case now one wants them, they would need to throw the rest away. Very unlikely that they shipped so many knowing how big the demand is.
As far as Kinect bundles go, yeah. I still prefer the CoDMW3 and the GeoW3 one
Thing is that's just your opinion, the vast majority of everybody else's opinion is that the star wars xbox
console is the best limited edition xbox console of this generation.
lol that sounds EXTREMELY biased. Proof ? Or you have none ? then skip this point.
While this is true, Star Wars didn't see much attention in any media lately. The huge hype has died down quite a bit.
More people on this planet know what star wars is compared to call of duty and all year long you see star
wars related media, unlike call of duty.
But how many of them are potential gamers ? Probably only the ones who grew up with Episode 1-3. Then cross out the ones who don't give a fuck about gaming etc.
Call of Duty however is "in" at the moment and there are at least 30m possible buyers for the next game.
They're pushing it just like every other exclusive with the exception of Halo and Gears of War.
Star wars kinect has been advertised more than the latest call of duty ever was.
Proof on how much they spent on marketing ?
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.
Just because a bundle sold x amount in one region doesn't mean the exact same thing happened everywhere
else and if the call of duty bundle sold out quickly where as the star wars one hasn't yet, then who's to say the
reason why it hasn't sold out yet is because more star wars bundles were shipped in the first place.
Sure but have you better data ? Look at how many Kinect Adventures were sold this week. Think about the ~37m Xbox owners who don't have a Kinect yet and only buy the Kinect add on and not a new package. Think about how much Kinect sells in the previous week and how many of them don't care about Star Wars. (2.6% of Kinect owners bought Star Wars Kinect).
MS knows how many bundles they need to ship. They know the pre-orders, they know how many extra bundles they have to provide for the stores.
I'd say anything over 150k is already extremely exaggerated.
No not really.
Yes yes really. Unless you give me an example which limited edition bundle sold more than that
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