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Barozi said:
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.
And again i never said the CoD bundle wasn't exclusive to the 360, doesn't mean at all in the slightest that it shipped more.
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.
You mean the stunning 41,000 the xbox360 dropped the following week after call of duty came out compared to the 48,000 the xbox360 increased on the release of star wars kinect followed by a 36,000 drop the week after that. Yep massive difference there lol.
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.
But kinect isn't new, this isn't the first time they've shipped kinect or kinect bundles. They know the demand and the potential and the bottom line is you have no idea how many they shipped.
lol that sounds EXTREMELY biased. Proof ? Or you have none ? then skip this point.
Exactly you have no proof. But here's just a quick example of a typical review of the console bundle http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/44152/star-wars-xbox-360-exclusive
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.
Star wars collectors will collect anything, they don't have to be gamers to buy the limited edition console and lol at only people who grew up with episode 1-3 are probably gamers.
Proof on how much they spent on marketing ?
You mean apart from the record $500M Microsoft has spent on advertising kinect, and i've seen far more star wars kinect adverts on tv than call of duty adverts.
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.
So in other words you have no idea.
Yes yes really. Unless you give me an example which limited edition bundle sold more than that
Just off the top of my head microsoft shipped 200,000 limited edition green halo xbox's in 2004.
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