360 & PS3 Sales run off - 2013 End UPDATE No.4 (post adjustments)

[DélioPT]

pokoko said:

DélioPT said:
Looking back the PS3 launch was actually better than Xbox 360`s but that was at least expected. Even then.
Xbox 360 started probably the way it was supposed to start seeing as Xbox wasn`t relevant and when 360 came out, PS2 was still relevant.
PS3`s should have done a lot better, being the successor the PS2. It`s mistakes seriously harmed the brand, specially in the US.

Kinect did wonders for 360, yet PS3 has been putting a good fight so far. Difference is, MS has a Christmas seller with Kinect. Sony does not. And that could mean that, at least in the US, the chances for a longer shelf life are higher for 360 - a lot higher if i may say so.

If the 720 ships with Kinect 2.0 then Kinect 1.0 is done.  Might even be discontinued in short order.

Not necessarily.
For all sakes and purposes, the core value of Kinect is already sold to the market: motion gaming with no hands.
Selling a enhanced product won`t make Kinect 1 and the 360 die an younger death than expected, because most people will have a cheaper alternative to the Kinect 2.0 for basically the same thing. Yes, Kinect 2.0 will be better but it won`t be different. That`s what, to me, hindered Move: better than Wii Remote with Motion Plus, but for the market it was nothing really new, so it failed to do for Sony what the Wii remote did for Nintendo and what Kinect did for MS.

I`m not saying i won`t be surprised but i`m not expecting Kinect 2.0 to be as successful as the first.