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ZhugeEX on 13 March 2016
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Aeolus451 said:
Shadow1980 said:

"Doubled overnight," you say? LTD 360 sales in the U.S. were ~22.16M by the end of Oct. 2010. After November they had grown to ~23.53M, a 6.18% increase. Not quite a doubling. By the end of 2014 the 360 was up to about 42.4M in the U.S., still not a doubling even after another four years.

The June-Oct. period of 2010 was up 57.4% from the same period in 2009, while Nov. was up by 67.2% and Dec. was up by 42%. Also releasing in November 2010 was Black Ops, which may have moved some hardware itself. At best, the Kinect was a modest short-term system seller, having a comparable effect to a modest system-selling game.

Glad you took the effort to point that all out, shadow. Kinect is an overrated peripheral in my opinion. It's not like it made candles float or something with it's minor boost to sales. Zhuge should never be a politician though. haha. You have to be vague as possible so you're more difficult to counter and there's less chance someone can do what shadow did.

Kinect is indeed over rated. But to say it only had a minor impact on sales is absolutely false. 

Why do you think Microsoft were so adament at bundling Kinect 2 from day 1. Because they were sure it would see the same sort of reaction that the original got. But the market had moved on.