Hmm, it's hard to think of an analogy here, because you don't usually launch movies which are copy-improvements of tried and tested franchises.

I thought it might just be an innocent question, but I figured it was too obvious that Wii Motion Plus destroyed Move in opening sales and will continue to do so.

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.

Just more sugercoating. It had a decent advertising campaign and certainly had a lot of hype behind it.They even had midnight openings at gamestop. Here's a picture from one of those events:

Hilarious! This is for something that was suppose to be like a new hardware cycle.

Let's get real here. The low sales are not due to "day one sales" or "bad marketing campaigns", it's due to the fact that nobody wants the Move. They already have a Wii and they are not interested in paying 300 dollars just so they can have Wii Sports Resort with HD graphics.

50k is for NA only, so don't confuse that with WW.

Either way, I would say the advertising was sufficient and I don't see how people can say zero hype after it becoming the Wii killer due to being superior in every way. I don't have cable so I only watch the major channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox), but I've seen plenty of advertisements for the PS3 & Move combined (mostly while watching football since thats all I've watched recently). I also got spammed by all sorts of online retailers trying to get me to buy Move. The advertising for Move may not have been for the average 13-25yo male (on channels like Spike or whatever they watch) but I've seen more than my fair share.

As for poor meta score games, WM launched with Wii Sports Resort and sold 500k in NA for week 1 with a meta of 80. I hardly find that as a good excuse for the huge difference in sales. In fact, I never consider meta scores a good indicator of sales potential other than things above 70 have a good chance of selling decently, and those below 70 have a good chance of selling 20m if they come bundled with a controller The price and lack of "hardcore" games would be a much better argument than the meta score and is probably the real reason for low sales.

As I stated, it pretty much has to maintain sales and probably increase for me to not consider it a flop.

EDIT: forgot that WM actually launched with Tiger Woods & Tennis and stuff, but the point still stands. Meta critic for games doesn't reflect how much a game will sell or its chance of success.

Sure, I'd go for a product (ie: Zune and iPod) rather than a content related comparison.

And I'm genuinely curious about Motion Plus sales, always have been, and we never seem to get any word about them.

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.

And again, Motion Plus didn't have WSR when it launched... it had EA and Sega games.  So what's the problem?

Of course nobody wants the Move. For a starter, nobody's heard of the Move, and on top of that, it has two-half decent games and nothing which would really warrant a purchase for the majority of people. For now.

I'm suprised by the sales. Actually, why are people buying one now?

I personally surely will buy one but I'm waiting for the right game. I know Ninokuni will use it, but perhaps we'll see a great game before.

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.