RolStoppable said:
| Shadow1980 said:
Looking at the numbers, it really doesn't seem like the Kinect did a whole lot. In the U.S. the 360 had already experienced a big rebound in baseline sales with the 360S. Q3 '10 sales were up a whopping 66.5% over Q3 '09 sales, while Q4 '10 sales were up 49.4% from Q4 '09 and Q1 '11 sales were up about 23.4% from Q1 '10. Looking at Europe we see the 360S initiating a decent boost to baseline sales, whereas the Kinect (not shown in the Euro chart, but released the same month as in the U.S.) doesn't seem to do much extra. November was actually down from the previous year, though December was up. Finally, in Japan we see a modest boost the week Kinect is released, but December sales were worse than the previous December and once 2011 begins sales drop.
If Kinect gave a boost to sales, it was modest and likely not long-lived, and if it provided any sustained boost in the U.S. and/or Europe it's impossible to differentiate between the Kinect's effect and the boost that had alread been initiated by the 360S.
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I think if you added a PS3 line to the graph for US sales (the 360's strongest territory), it would further illustrate that Kinect didn't do much.
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The Kinect doubled the install base overnight in the US.
