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ZhugeEX on 13 March 2016
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Shadow1980 said:
ZhugeEX said:

The majority of Kinects sold early on were in new Xbox 360 bundles. Not to existing install base. 

People were clearly willing to spend the extra $100 bucks on a bundle with Kinect than one without Kinect, in fact the average price of an Xbox 360 increased from $256 in Oct 2010 to around $306 by Jan 2011.. 1.7 million Kinects were sold in bundles during the first 3 months. The number of standalone kinects sold was less than that.

Citation? I want to review this information for myself. Google isn't being very helpful.

I don't think this data is public tbh, but I have it saved in my notes from the time. 

Basically you need to look at revenue numbers as well unit sale numbers. Unit sales can only tell you so much. But seriously buddy, the Kinect had a big effect on Xbox 360 sales. Microsoft were saying as much at the time as well. Xbox 360 sales really started to take off in the US after the Kinect was released and software sales for Kinect games and total revenue for Microsoft HW & SW really took off.