Two Days in, Kinect-less Xbox One’s Pre-Orders Aren’t Exactly Selling Like Hotcakes.

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BMaker11 said:

sales2099 said:

Give it time, only the forum dwellers know about this. Let the word of mouth trickle into the average gamers attention. You know, gamers who don't need to feed their habit of anonymous validation online :)

Furthermore....why preorder when you could just, I don't know, walk in to a store any buy it June 9?

That's just not true. When it was announced, "Kinect" was a worldwide trending topic on Twitter. Meaning millions of people were talking about it. If you were interested in getting an XBone and just googled "Xbox One", everything on the first two pages was about the Kinect-less XBone. On Facebook, in the top right corner (under where you get notified for events and birthdays) had "Xbox One" as a worldwide trending topic as well, and Facebook has more users than Twitter.

Not all gaming news is limited to the "forum goer" audience. On social media, you need millions upon millions of mentions of that topic to be trending. The fact that "Kinect" and "Xbox One" were mentioned by several millions of people when the Kinect-less XBone was announced means that more than the "forum dwellers" know about it. It's safe to say average gamers know about it. Unless you think "forum goers" make up all of social media

Nm, just not into the whole social media thing outside facebook. That said, I feel there really is no incentive to preorder it. No pack in, no retailer specific deals.