| DirtyP2002 said:
Kinect sensors sold in 2012 according to VGC: 3,342,957 And this does not include digital titles like Wreckateer or Fruit Ninja Kinect, which alone sold about 2 million I think. Of course it does not include "Better with Kinect titles" either. Anyway, VGC is not a reliable source when it comes to Kinect. MS reported 20 million shipped 6 weeks ago and VGC still has it at 19 million. |
If you assume that everyone who bought a Kinect Sensor bought another Kinect game (a relatively fair assumption), that would mean that there was an average of (roughly) 0.5 games sold to owned Kinect Sensor in 2012. With how people's purchasing habits tend to be distributed, that you will have some households buying 2 or more games in 2012, I would be surprised if 1/3 of existing Kinect owners bought a game for Kinect in 2012.
Kinect may be a worthwhile add-on to pursue, but it would be foolish of Microsoft to make it the central piece of their next generation strategy.
Edit: To be entirely fair, I also think it would have been a mistake for Nintendo to release a system where an "advanced Wiimote" was the central piece of their strategy. People know what it is, already have formed solid opinions about it, and interest in it has fallen and it is unlikely to significantly increase excitement about the system.
