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Forums - Microsoft - Kinect : $500 million in marketing, Will be bigger than Jesus!

Seece on 21 October 2010
Garland said:
Legend11 said:
Garland said:
Jadedx said:
Garland said:

LOL. I can't believe that I got modded with a warning for "trolling" for speaking the truth about Kinect among other things. If people can't handle what I say, they can just ignore me.

At least other sites like Gametrailers & systemwars.com can let me say whatever I want.


Then go back to those garbage websites, because nobody wants you here.


How do you know that? Don't you tell me where I belong. You don't own this website, buddy. I suggest that you stop being a jerk, change your arrogant attitude, & show some respect.

I still don't understand how you're not banned.  I and many others have been banned for saying far less shit than you.  Hell you just called someone a jerk and earlier pretty much called the Wii garbage and insulted its users and you're still here.   I get a mod wanting to ban me for 90 days for wondering if Agent could become multiplatform in a thread.

He just talked crap saying that I don't belong here & that nobody wants me here, so I fired back at him for that. I just gave out my opinion & valid points on why I don't like Kinect & the Wii. Plus I never exactly insulted Wii users except for him (all I said is that most of Wii owners are non-gamers & casuals). If people want to act rude towards me or insult me, then they should expect the same back towards them. Plain & simple. If people don't like me, they can just ignore me or leave. There are plenty of people out there that really cares about me & will want to hear my opinions on what I have to say. That's the damn bottom line.

Plus they shouldn't ban you just for giving out your opinion for wondering about a certain game being multiplat. That's just cruel.

The damn bottom line is you abide by the rules or get banned, shape up or ship out, but you can't go around calling people jerks however much you think you're free to give your opinion.



 

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patapon on 21 October 2010

The only way Move can be saved now is if Oprah announces she uses one as a dildo



AnthonyW86 on 23 October 2010

I'm curious how much of that $500 million will go to waste bribing off people and making sure nobody spoils Kinect's launch party, by confirming that it doesn't quite work as well as it should...



ramses01 on 23 October 2010
Baalzamon said:
leatherhat said:
disolitude said:
leatherhat said:
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Squilliam said:

Incoming complaint -> They only succeeded because they heaps of advertisng. Will probably be seen Nov 2010.


I see this happening as well. Damn, this thread went to shit in the 5 hours I was not here...

Here is a question Squil... If Kinect is a massive success, and sells a boatload, eclipsing the Wii...Will Sony execs be kicking themselves and saying "Damn it, we copied the wrong shovelware filled peripheral?"

I hope my posts didn't imply that I don't think move is a piece of shit as well. Motion gaming as a whole is a terrible thing. 

The way I see it is that the day Sony and Microsoft got in to gaming and started their pissing match, I knew it would come down to this. When a company like Sega, who's been making games for 40 years gets booted out of the hardware industry due to the fact that it can't take as big of a loss on selling hardware as the other companies...the party is over. Its all about bottom line...

When you have 2 corporate giants like this who really are only in to gaming cause they saw a potential to make huge profits, and are trying to maximize revenue, they will not look to please the core gamers as that gets hard. Its easier to wow the non gaming crowd and take their dollars.

Of course, it took nintendo to give them an idea as coorporate giants are usually low on those...but once they have an idea, they can spend their stockpiles of cash on marektting it and make it more accurate and cool.

Now with all that core gaming pride talk aside....from a business perspective, its hard to deny the billiance of Kinect. Its much more marketable than Wii or PS Move.  MS isn't stupid and they know the idea of this tech will sell it...not the execution. So they want to make sure everyone knows its coming out...hence the large marketting budget.


Yeah I agree, it makes solid business success and they'll undoubtedly see great profits and sales with it. But as a consumer its hard  to watch them close down Ensemble and castrate Rare and then turn around and spend half a billion on Kinect. 


You do realize they will have to sell like 30 million Kinects making $50 on every one to make a profit on it, right?

You might want to recalculate things a bit.  MS would only need to sell 10 MM to break even on the marketing spend.



Billy Gun on 23 October 2010

They will get part of that on software sales, live subscriptions, zune, movies, etc..



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Alby_da_Wolf on 23 October 2010

If Jesus had been like Kinect, lag included, how much time would have passed before he noticed they crucified him?     Not to mention bugs that could have had him, for example, accidentally start the stoning of the adulteress, or reattach the servant's ear chopped by Peter in the wrong place, making him look like a painting by Picasso...   



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