phenom08 said:
Lol this is funny. You said how many games support Wii Fit? Wii Fit is a game lol -Yes. I am aware that Wii Fit is a game. My bad. . Anyways thats irrelevant, you would think with all that support it wouldn't still be below the Balance Board.I hope Ninty annouces how many Balance Boards they have sold, so we can compare it to how many Kinect sensors have been sold. Pretty sure the Balance Board is pushing like 30 million, like 10 million more than Kinect. Kinect is the fastest selling and is still behind. -Well, the Balance Board came out in 2008 and has been on the market twice as long as Kinect. In that amount of time, Kinect has reached about 2/3 of what the Wii Balance Board has. Wii Fit U releases early next year so fail on it being dead in the water. -Wii Fit =/= Wii Fit U. We'll see if it makes a dent in Balance Board sales. I'm willing to bet that ship has sailed. And (as I stated) Kinect will do big numbers again this holiday season. Wii Fit (and Balance Board) sales will be flat. More proof of Kinect being a failure is how it needed a price cut during its second Christmas. Wii Fit is still $99 to this day and its been 4 years. -So NOW you want to acknowledge that Wii Fit/Balance Board have been out for 4 years? Wii Fit is still $99 but many felt that, at $150, Kinect was overpriced. At $99, Kinect still nets Microsoft a tidy profit. Plus, with Kinect selling so much at 1 1/2 times the price of a Wii Balance Board w/ Wii Fit, does that constitute a failure? And you show your bias by calling a device that has sold 20 Million (average) a failure. You have some seriously high standards. Lol Kinect is a different kind of peripheral obviously it was made to have software(which sells like crap may I add) while the Balance Board was made to support one game(Wii Fit) and yet it still sold more and didn't flop anywhere. -Just can't say anything good about Kinect, huh? Games like Kinect Sports 1 and 2, Dance Central 1 and 2, Just Dance 3, Your Shape Fitness Evolved, Zumba Fitness, Kinectimals, and Kinect Star Wars have very respectable sales. Wii FIt didn't flop anywhere because the Wii didn't flop anywhere. Kinect failed in Japan because the Xbox 360 failed in Japan. How would the peripheral succeed when the device it enhances has failed? Kinect should be compared to the Wii remote, of course you wouldn't want that though. -Why the fuck would I want to do that? Are you even listening to yourself!? The Wii Remote is the standard device that comes packed with every single Wii console since launch. Kinect is a peripheral that came out five years after the Xbox 360! Now, if you want to compare it to the Wii Motion Plus, I'm all for that. That IS an add on peripheral. The fact that the Balance Board and Kinect have probably sold around the same amount of software is sad lol -It is sad. On the market for twice as long, has a 10 Million lead, and yet hardly supported. Like you said, it was designed to work with ONE GAME (though it does work with a few more). Bigger impact on the industry your ass! . Ninty doesn't need a Balance Board 2.0 lol. -Did I miss a joke? You laughing at me? Read something hilarious on Twitter? Bigger impact of the industry my ass, Wii Fit got developers making fitness games while Kinect got developers porting Wii games to Kinect lol. -Yep. There were no fitness games before Wii Fit (I must have imagined owning a Nintendo Power Pad for the Nes when I was a kid.) Meanwhile, Kinect only has devs porting Wii games. Yet, the entire Xbox 360 dashboard has been redesigned to accomodate Kinect and play to its strengths. It has done so well that it is rumored to be the focus of the Next Xbox console. You can type LOL but from where I'm sitting, that sounds like nervous laughter. What does your bolded statement even mean? It means that the Wii launched in 2006 and it took about a year for the AAA calibur Wii games to hit the market. Wii Fit was a success. It had an impact on sales but you paint the picture to make it seem like it was the driving force behind Wii sales that year. The Wii itself was a phenomenon. Not only did people want the system, people wanted the peripheral. People wanted the games. The Wii did so well because that was the year that everything fell into place. The biggest games were finally coming out. Wii Fit was just part of that perfect storm--not the cause of it. Meanwhile, Kinect bundles were 1/2 of Xbox 360 sales for Holiday 2010 and 2/3 for the beginning of 2011. Even Christmas of last year, Kinect continued to boost sales. It will still do well this Christmas. That is what I call impact. It was a game changer. The Balance Board is definitely bigger than Kinect, whether you like it or not. In sales, yes. But then, it has been around longer. But, if you look at the original post, I said "When it comes to peripherals, Kinect sits at the top of the mountain when it comes to support, sales, and impact." Wii Fit (and the Balance Board) have the sales. When i comes to all three, Kinect has the total package. It has great sales (sold faster than the Balance Board and it's still selling), it has more support from first AND third party, and it has made a bigger impact on the industry. |
Okay. Now that I'm not on a phone, I can get my thoughts out more clearly. Anyway, I beat you.
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