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Prelim PS MOVE Sales IN! (140K Worldwide)!! Are you pleased?!!

AMAZING SALES 161 23.27%
 
BOOO! 119 17.20%
 
MEH! 412 59.54%
 
Total:692

If that's the initial sales for a few days then it's probably enough of a start, assuming good word of mouth and more games.  Sony is clearly banking of word of mouth up to the holidays building interest with a medium marketing effort.

In this case though I'm going to take the sales estimates with a big pinch of salt, mainly due to a high level of assumptions and a lack of historic data and examples to extrapolate from.  In this case the margin of error I feel is too high to make to many guesses ourselves from the data.

I will say I think Sony should have timed things to have Sorcery release just before Christmas, but this time around they clearly wanted to launch before MS so I guess that's that.

I'm amazed some people though a peripheral with limited titles launching in September would sell by the bucket load.  This is a release timed to build interest.  It's Kinect that's going for the big launch, close to the holidays, in the hope of having front loaded sales.  Sony have made it clear publicliy in their statements they are not aiming for that kind of strategy.



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1. I still believe Move and Kinect won't break 10% of their userbase.

2. In reality you won't be able to really see how well either of these will do until after Christmas sales.

These are both casual devices and the holidays will determine if that group finds these add ons interesting. This rather weak launch shows that unlike say the Balance Board, Move has not game that users really want. Just as I've argued in other threads, no new experience. Just a shinier Wii which is mostly unimportant to the masses.



I said it before and I'll say it again.

The Move needs more and better games that require the Move. The best Move games are already playable with a joystick.



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I thought it would sell more, just because of the funny commercials alone.

However I still think that move sales are going to be a lot slower then Kinect this holiday. Preorders for Kinect (according to the Preorder thread for just NA) are already higher then the first two days of Move sales, and it still has a long way until release. Plus Microsoft is going to throw MASSIVE advertising $$ at it. It also has a few new IP's going for it as well

Just my opinion as a gamer.



i guess this is "good" since there was virtually no advertising for the move. I did see a sign for it at walmart though.





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well, it isn't as good..... but it certanly beat vgchartz expectations



nordlead said:
Boutros said:

Are people comparing Move and Motion Plus?

And are people still accusing Sony of copying Nintendo?

It has to stop.

It doens't matter what you or anyone else says. The Move will always be a "copy" of Nintendo's Wii controller with WM .

It looks the same, it feels the same and it does the same things and it came out second. End of story.

Sure, it works differently and maybe Sony has been working on this since the PS1 days (or whatever timeframe you want to believe) but that hardly matters in the grand scheme of things. You ask the average person they will say the Move is a copy of the Wii controller. Sure, you can get technical and point out how it isn't a copy, but this is like arguing with your average person that Black isn't a color...

Besides, they should be compared. This is like saying we shouldn't comapre the Wii and PS3 because the PS3 does HD and blu-ray.

It just creates dreadful debates with no content. EVERYBODY copies something. And people are saying Sony copied Nintendo like it's a bad thing. It's about getting the inspiration somewhere and making it better. That's what Move is.

Plus Move and Motion Plus are far from being something you can compare.

Edit: Oh well everybody said the same thing above.



nopes not pleased with sales its just ok



Sales are stronger then I expected.  But nothing to brag about. 

Move is in an interesting place.  Not enough sales for third party developers to build AAA games solely around it, too many sales to ignore it completely.  Sony will undoubtedly support it in their games which should drive more sales.



CGI-Quality said:
Reasonable said:

I'm amazed some people thought a peripheral with limited titles launching in September would sell by the bucket load.  This is a release timed to build interest.  It's Kinect that's going for the big launch, close to the holidays, in the hope of having front loaded sales.  Sony have made it clear publicliy in their statements they are not aiming for that kind of strategy.

Indeed. I think with Move, they want to let the product do most of the talking on it's own. I suspect by holiday time, Move will be a moderate hit, with the bulk of it's magic being realized by Spring/Summer  of next year.


so many comments in this thread...too lazy to read em all but found these posts and I agree completely

for around 1-2 days of sale with no huge marketing push and no 'huge' games, this is a great number imo....Move will keep on building :) haters gonna hate but let's see how things are after an year or so



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