.. it's basically just so that we can measure success based on rival companies sales numbers with their respective motion control features. But in my opionion the entire thing is retarded.

Latest VGC article said: "The situation with Move sales is very different to hardware sales and it is totally unfair and misleading to count individual controller sales when we are trying to compare Move userbase to say Kinect or Wii userbase."

Why would we want to compare Move with the Wii? Do we need another section in the weekly sales that says;
Worldwide sales:
Move 750k
Wii 185k
Xbox... etc  ?

The Wii is a console, the Move is a peripheral.

And with the whole "Kinect is a new system launch", why would we want to compare the Move with Kinect? The jump in hardware userbase is what both products are made for, to lure in the casuals so that they buy more consoles, i.e more software and more PSN+/Xbox Live accounts etc. I mean, since when did anyone start tracking peripherals? Might aswell tack on the EyeToy in that case, it does motion gaming aswell.. as a stand alone device. But we've never seen that. And sure we've had some Eyetoy numbers thown our way once in a while, but who cared?

This is all just a big e-penis contest in the long run, but non of the devices really is anything alike. And the whole "its unfair" thing just proves my point. Its tracked because its a market that people want a piece of, and someone "have to win", but with the differences among the products i just dont see the point. The result doesn't matter?!

If Kinect sells 30m day one, but 30k is to new users, the market is the same. Microsoft just earned a shitload of cash, the end. Its not like it will put the Move" out of business", its a controller and it has no business per se. And its not like it will get more exclusives, its already a totally different device than what the Move or Wii is today, thats its entire library, it needs specially designed games (exclusives) from the getgo.

Its the total userbase/marketshare everyone hungers for. So what if Move sells 2.5m, or if 750k is the uniqe number of users. It just a number that developers might have any interest in. And to remake the way, or to try and calculate the amount of uniqe users the Move have, just to be able to compare which company just expanded their purchase incentive the most, is retarded imo.

Am i the only one who thinks this way? That the Move vs Kinect vs Wii is a tad lame? Its old and who really cares? The internet sure seems to love it, so there's obviously alot of people with e-pride on the line, but c'mon. Who here thinks this will even matter 2 months after release? Or by the end of this year, will anyone even care what the score is between all motion controlled products? They'll be back to 1. Wii, 2.Xbox, 3. PS3.

Sorry for the wall of text.

So ... why do YOU come to this of all gaming sites if sales aren't important to you?

There's sales, and then there's sales. These sales are useless and indicates nothing.

Its like blu ray vs hd-dvd, infamous vs prototype, ff13 vs ff13, halo vs any game. Its all for braging rights and nothing changes.

Move sales compared to Kinect and/or Wii are important if you want to analyze if Sony's approach was a wise one.  That's not just for bragging rights as it also is a sign to stockholders and customers as to the future of the current leadership in the gaming division.  

If it's successful even compared to the sales of the others, good call by going with a more tested form of input and targeting core gamers.  If not, it was likely a more shortsighted attempt to dissuade people from buying the others that failed.

Personally I think its interesting to see how it plays out, but its almost impossible to accurately compare them as they are not all apples.

You think comparing a peripheral's success to the Wii is meaningful?  I agree it's interesting, but not much more than that.

Don't think I ever used the word 'meaningful', but I definitely think they could be useful.  Especially if a Wii decline is juxtaposed with impressive Move sales.  It could give anecdotal evidence that Move stopped PS3 owners from being Wii-curious (laugh if you may, but I have a friend that used this reasoning for his Move purchase).

Ah, so not so much a race between the two so much as gauging one's affect on the other, perhaps?  Ok, I can get behind that.  I just feel like some people expect this thing to rival the Wii, whatever the hell that means.  X(