Does anyone else believe that Kinect will be bigger in the UK then NA for the first couple of weeks ?

So you think preorders represent the entire stock that will be available on launch?  Or even half?

Let me give a comparison.  Halo Reach, a week before launch, supposedly had just under 2 million preorders.  Yet during the first week, it sold just over 4 million.  And in all of that, with the exception of the Legendary editions, there was no talk of shortages, meaning that there was even more than that available on shelves.

That's just Halo Reach.  I'm sure there are examples of many other games with preorder numbers that dwarf their actual first week sales.

Long story short?  Don't put too much stock in preorder numbers representing first week sales or stock availability.

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Not to mention, god forbid that the product isn't selling as well as you thought it would.  Example- you make 10 million of those units and you sell just 3 million.  You pay for warehouse space for 7million units and then there is a fire sale and you lose your arse.  It would not only be ignorant to overproduce rather than do the slow steady stream that you have planned for. 

And if the product does go on to sell like hotcakes you can always push the factory to turn out more units ala another shift or overtime etc...

"It will only work with pre-made movements." -Quoting sucks on this site. Some guy on the front page said this, or something like it.

It'll be interesting to see how Kinect comes out in the end. Bare in mind that Your Shape follows your movements perfectly, at least seemingly so according to the videos I've seen of the game being played live. I suppose now it'd be up to the developer to make use of making each individual action have a set action coded to it. It may be difficult, but if true VR is ever supposed to exist they better get used to it.

Your Shape works on the Wii as well yet it's not really a game either. If there is lag it wouldn't matter that much.

 It seems most exercise gimmicks tries to fool you in thinking exercise is fun. Exercise is hard work and can't compete with games and movies when itcomes to fun. Now exercise can be satsifying and meaningful even more than entertainment  just no where near as fun.

I recall that Just Dance was a huge hit in the UK.

Not a chance.  The userbase is 5 to 1 for NA vs UK.  They won't ship near as much to the UK as they do to NA, which may be why there are so many places sold out.

It is not f***ing handmade, but it is a piece of hardware, so you can't magically pull millions our of your as*. Anyway, Microsoft should expect the large demand, and try to supply the Kinect accordingly. We need to see the real number first.

The difference between Your Shape on the Wii and Kinect is as large as the wiimote vs. kinect itself. On kinect the game generates your entire body, clothes and all, and tracks 48 joints/bones/whatever-the-hell it tracks. So if every game can generate your entire body with 1:1 motion, then it could have potential in other ways.

And then it all boils down to whether or not it has lag, which we will find out Nov. 4. I just can't wait for horror games on it; hopefully Penumbra and maybe an old style Resident Evil. I wonder how Haunt will be . . .