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papflesje on 02 August 2010
kowenicki said:
papflesje said:

I can say that in Belgium (small country, I know) it isn't even making a blip so far :-/


and MOVE?

 


Not much more at the moment, but stores are not adverse to it (and some are planning promotion) because Sony is pretty dominant over here (especially compared to Xbox)



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iWarMachine on 02 August 2010
Kantor said:
selnor said:
Kantor said:

Well, I live in the UK. I know MCV is a DVD and video game chain. That doesn't make them a reliable source, especially when their sources are nameless and refuse to provide concrete numbers. If you look at it, it's quite a well written article, because in a good six paragraphs, it gives a sense of positivity regarding Kinect without actually saying anything.

I'm not saying Kinect won't sell huge numbers. I'm saying that this isn't evidence that it will.

Apart from always showing themselves to be reliable? But because they paint a rosey pic for Kinect they are all of a sudden 'not' reliable. 

MCV = understandably reliable, and there is no reason to not trust them.

They could say Kinect only had ten pre-orders and was going to fail miserably and bankrupt Microsoft. This still wouldn't be a reliable source of information.

Or to put it another way, just because a "reliable source" posts it, doesn't make it true. If you trusted somebody, and they told you to jump off a cliff because there was a trampoline and chocolate at the bottom, would you?

change the chocolate for a Xbox360 and Kinect and he would do it xD /jk jk jk :P



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Alby_da_Wolf on 02 August 2010
the_lonely_gamer_123 said:
Pipedream24 said:

Kinect is going to sell extremely well for one of the same reasons as the 360 S....many people want new hardware.  It's going on five years since the launch of the 360 and there are a lot of gamers looking to purchase something new.  With this console cycle showing no ending anytime soon, people will purchase because it's something different to mess around with, even if it turns out to be mediocre.

I also think Kinect is going to break in to the mainstream cosnumer this holiday as well.  Marketing and word of mouth  hype can go an awfully long way in making a product a must have holiday gift.

 

If Microsoft can advertise Kinect as the next 360, as new tech (which they have been), the wannabee tech junkies will buy them ASAP. 

IMVHO MS tries to give this feeling very often when it release something new, even if it's a simple upgrade or add-on. With WinXP it did wonders, despite it being essentially an update to Win2000.



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mike_intellivision on 02 August 2010

Did anyone see any hard numbers in this story? I am not saying that it is not going to sell well early, but I don't see anyone but the poster mentioning half a million.

The only quote that mentioned numbers were that one chain encouraged its stores to secure 10 orders per day. Is that not telling the selling staff to reach a target each day (like Gamestop does)?  The story comments make the same point. 

Quality and software will ultimately dictate Kinect's fate. There will always be early adopters. Right now, anyone who thinks they might be interested in probably pre-ordering to make sure they can get one in case there are shortages (which undoubtedly there will be until at least February -- based upon the X360 launch).   The real question is whether anyone will want to buy Kinect next May.

 

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Monges79 on 02 August 2010

Suprising, if its true. Didn't Guitar Hero 5 outsell the Beatles Rockband 3 to 1. Yeah, that's right. We'll see what the real numbers are when Kinect ships. I'm a 360 advocate, and I'm not sold on Kinect. To be honest, the only game I thought was cool was Kinectimals. My 3 year old loved the trailer. Enough said. Numbers are always puffed up to make the launch seem even bigger. Microsoft is pushing this hard, so 2 million units shipped by the end of the year isn't unthinkable. I can't wait to see how many commercials there will be right before it ships. We'll see if it pays off for Micro$oft.



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Lafiel on 02 August 2010

they expect 500k preorders for kinect in UK alone? that seems pretty unlikely to me, but we will see come november



unknown_soul89 on 02 August 2010

Wow I knew the masses were stupid but this stupid, half a million pre-orders for tech that isn't even new and almost certainly won't work right, thats just pathetic, hopefully they catch on after it's released, for humanities sake I hope the source is BS

EDIT: Just read the link, they expect to get 500k preorders by launch meaning they'll maybe get a third of that these predictions are always way too high 



drudaddy on 02 August 2010

If that number is already that high then I think Microsoft will over beat there expectations of having atleast 2-3 million sold by 2011. if it continues to rise, I can see 4 million easy. The only thing that will stop this would be short supply.



unknown_soul89 on 02 August 2010
drudaddy said:

If that number is already that high then I think Microsoft will over beat there expectations of having atleast 2-3 million sold by 2011. if it continues to rise, I can see 4 million easy. The only thing that will stop this would be short supply.

The number isn't already that high, they EXPECT to have that many by LAUNCH which means they won't 



HappySqurriel on 02 August 2010

I could expect that there would be 5,000,000 pre-orders for the 3DS but that doesn't mean there will be 5,000,000 pre-orders for the 3DS.

Personally, I would be surprised if Microsoft allowed more than 500,000 pre-orders to be issued for Kinect world wide being that they (probably) won't want people who pre-ordered to be waiting weeks/months to receive their hardware.