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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
snyperdud on 21 September 2010

That's fairly decent numbers considering the launch line-up.

I think over time the Move will sell well. It just needs better games than whats currently available.



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Rainbird on 21 September 2010
Kenology said:
Rainbird said:
jarrod said:

Er, Motion Plus launched like a month before WSR iirc.  Except in Japan.

WSR is still the greatest killer app any peripheral like that can have, Move doesn't have anything that can make a straight forward comparison fair imo.

Why did you cut off his second sentence?  Why not respond to that one.

What sentence? I haven't cut anything out, so unless I missed an edit, I don't know what you're talking about.



leo-j on 21 September 2010
makingmusic476 said:
Grimes said:

If Wii Fit or Wii Motion Plus sold at these levels, people would be calling them a complete failure. And Wii Fit had a much lower user base to sell to.


Wii Fit sold well on the back of its software.  The peripheral was simply made to facilitate the creation of said software.  Same for WSR and WMP. 

Move is essentially a new platform, one that is still waiting for WF/WSR caliber software.  Plus it's releasing five years into the console's lifespan.  The two situations aren't all that comparable.

Actually, this design philosophy is exactly why I predicted Move/Kinect would not come close to Nintendo's juggernauts this gen.  The Wiimote was designed to facilitate Wii Sports, and Wii Sports is what initially sold the Wii.  Same goes for Wii Fit and the Balance Board and Wii Sports Resort and Wii Motion Plus.  The lack of any real creative vision in software design seen in the development of Move/Kinect is what will stymie their initial and longterm sales.  It seems, in both cases, as if Sony/MS designed the hardware first and foremost, with little thought into what types of experiences they want to convey with said hardware.  After that they just tossed it out to developers and hoped they'd come up with something cool for it.  Nintendo designed their hardware to make their next killer app.  Sony/MS designed their hardware for the hardware's sake, and now they are desperately trying to find a killer app.

As such, the sales we've seen for Move aren't that surprising, and hardly a "complete failure".  I'd say they're fairly  respectable, given the circumstances surrounding the device's creation and launch.  Given SCE's attitude towards Move over the past several months, it seems as if the device is primarily intended to make people go "Oh, they have motion controls too" more than anything else.  In fact, the bulk of their current line-up consists of multiplat games that now have controls just like on Wii.  I'd think they'd be pleased with sales like this, given what their goals seem to be.


What? I completely disagree there.. I don't believe sony just threw the move out there just to be able to compete with nintendo, I mean if they did, they wouldn't be releasing such heavy potential AAA ip for it in the near future like SORCERY..

I hope you haven't forgotten that sony has been working on the move technology since 2004... and they definatenly did not just throw the move at developers in an act of desperation.. because the PS3 has sold nearly 40 million units, and that is nowhere near low enough to be desperate for more market share.



 

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leo-j on 21 September 2010
Rafux said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Kantor said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Kantor said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Kantor said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Kantor said:
jarrod said:

I wonder what Motion Plus sold first week?

That's just ridiculous. Inception really flopped, because look at how much Toy Story 3 has grossed.


I believe Move is more of the competition to the WM plus, than Inception is to Toy Story....

 

After all, move is sont's desparete "move"  to counter attack nintendo's succes with the Wiimote.

Move isn't an attempt to counter anything. Only somebody who is truly delusional could ever have expected that.

No, Move is an attempt to steal some of the Wii's last-minute business, lengthen the gen by changing the game experience, and prepare core players for next-gen motion control, which will probably be ubiquitous.


So... you are telling me that move is an attempt to win some costumers over the wii... but is not trying to counter the wii's success.....

Got it

If Sony wanted to counter the Wii, they would have done it four years ago. To counter would be to somehow damage the Wii. Move isn't going to damage the Wii in any way. A handful of people (a very small handful) may choose it over the Wii, but it will mostly be selling to existing console owners, as shown by the data: 10,000 new consoles for 120,000 Move sales.

That's why it was only a desperate move.

Maybe you forgot about it, but this is actually the second time they try to counter the wii. Remember before, sony planned to launch a boomerang type controller... but then at E3 they presented the classic all time controller with the Sixaxis technology, a desparate attempt to counter the wii. It failed. It was an attempt to counter the wii, but it didn't do anything, hence it failed.

Move is just the second time for sony to try and damage the wii... that's why is an attempt. Will it work this time? doubt it. But we'll see, everything is possible.

And attempt to counter doesn't mean that it will actually counter efectively.

Sixaxis was not intended to counter the Wii. Everyone just hated the Boomerang controller, and Sixaxis is nothing like free-motion. It's tilt sensing.

OMG!!!! ok w/e makes you happy. I'm not going to discuss with someone who is blind x_X

Sixaxis was clearly a pathetic and desparate attempt to get on board of the motion controllers hype the wii was getting.

But if you believe Sony was planning to do that all along... well, I have actually nothing to say to you sir. Good day

Counter moves are for leaders, the sixaxis was indeed an attemp to counter the wii motion controls but it was a very crappy one. Now Sony is no longer the leader right now is in third place and the PS Move is an attemp to stole enough market share from the Wii so they can be in second place above MS. Thats called a flanking move.

And what makes kinect more innovative than the eyetoy/and or Ps eye that the move comes with?



 

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leo-j on 21 September 2010
HappySqurriel said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Grimes said:

If Wii Fit or Wii Motion Plus sold at these levels, people would be calling them a complete failure. And Wii Fit had a much lower user base to sell to.


This


Yeah, Wii Fit's first week sales (1,620,524) and Wii Sport Resort's first week sales (1,262,489) are almost identical to Move's first week sales (140,000) ... That is, if you're really bad at math.

but these aren't first week sales..



 

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Grimes on 21 September 2010
leo-j said:
HappySqurriel said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Grimes said:

If Wii Fit or Wii Motion Plus sold at these levels, people would be calling them a complete failure. And Wii Fit had a much lower user base to sell to.


This


Yeah, Wii Fit's first week sales (1,620,524) and Wii Sport Resort's first week sales (1,262,489) are almost identical to Move's first week sales (140,000) ... That is, if you're really bad at math.

but these aren't first week sales..


For Wii Fit the number was very close to first day sales simply because it sold out nearly instantly.



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SosusOCR on 21 September 2010

Considering how much Sony was pushing it I was expecting alot more.

As it stands its pretty sad.



leo-j on 21 September 2010
SosusOCR said:

Considering how much Sony was pushing it I was expecting alot more.

As it stands its pretty sad.


They didn't push it as hard as i expected either at retail/commercially only on the net, but I guess they are waiting till the fall when they have more games to tout about.



 

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--OkeyDokey-- on 21 September 2010

I don't see how anyone could possibly find that bad as the technology is nothing new and a mediocre Wii Sports knock-off is the best launch title. It's not something people rush out to buy first day either.



binary solo on 21 September 2010

Well I think it sold more than the haters wanted it to, less than the "Movers" hoped it would and approximately what the rational people (like me) expected.

Hence none of the 3 options in the poll represent what I think about the Move sales. "Meh" is closest, but as "meh" is pejorative it does not describe my opinion accurately. It's done OK and that's it.

I think too the haters claim there's been a lot of hype and huge marketing, whereas the movers claim there's been very little of either. The truth of course is somewhere in between. A decent amount of marketing, not a lot of hype. I think sales are a little low in proportion to the extent of the marketing, but not by a big margin. I expect SOny's marketing of Move to ramp up from October on.



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