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Shadowblind on 08 November 2010

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect will unlikely see a retail drought this holiday.

Bob McKenzie, SVP of Merchandising and Marketing for GameStop, says he expects Kinect to be in stock for immediate future and that Microsoft has been quick with replenishing supply.

"It has exceeded our initial sales expectations, and we've been able to get good replenishment shipments from Microsoft," McKenzie told IGN.

"We came out of the weekend in real good shape; I don't have a lot of stores that are out of stock at this time and I anticipate going forward from the flow that I can see from [Microsoft] that we'll be in stock coming into the next several weeks."

Calls to numerous GameStop stores confirm Kinect's wide availability. Kinect went on sale in the United States last Thursday. Microsoft has yet to announce any shipping or sales figures for the device.

The company is backing Kinect with a large marketing push, however, that reportedly exceeds half a billion dollars.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/113/1133043p1.html

 

Looks like Microsoft expected a drought. I wonder what their production output is of the device.



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SpartenOmega117 on 08 November 2010

All i know is that most of the people in my school are not excited about this. Microsoft is expecting to sell 5 million this holiday. I think they should bump it back down to 3-4 million



d21lewis on 08 November 2010

Well, it says right there in the article that "It exceeded out sales expectations" so I guess Kinect is selling pretty well.  I don't think Microsoft can sell five million before the end of the year if there aren't any supplies in store so the supply is there, too.  If anything, it looks like there is supply met with demand.  All is right with the world.



Nsanity on 08 November 2010

"It has exceeded our initial sales expectations, and we've been able to get good replenishment shipments from Microsoft,"

So what's the problem?



daroamer on 08 November 2010

To be fair I don't think Microsoft ever said they expected to be sold out this holiday, it was other people who were speculating that.

You never want to be in a situation where people want to buy your product and you don't have enough any to sell them.

Expectations for sales were already high so for them to say it exceeded their expectations means it's doing very well.



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Mr Puggsly on 08 November 2010
SpartenOmega117 said:

All i know is that most of the people in my school are not excited about this. Microsoft is expecting to sell 5 million this holiday. I think they should bump it back down to 3-4 million

No duh.

Most high school kids are just into booze, weed, and dry humping. Its an awkward age.

Your high school has little reflection on what other demographics want.



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Mr Puggsly on 08 November 2010


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bannedagain on 08 November 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
SpartenOmega117 said:

All i know is that most of the people in my school are not excited about this. Microsoft is expecting to sell 5 million this holiday. I think they should bump it back down to 3-4 million

No duh.

Most high school kids are just into booze, weed, and dry humping. Its an awkward age.

Your high school has little reflection on what other demographics want.


lmfao!



Jordahn on 08 November 2010

My local Gamestop tells me that Kinect isn't selling very well and there are plenty still in the back.



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Jordahn on 08 November 2010
Nsanity said:

"It has exceeded our initial sales expectations, and we've been able to get good replenishment shipments from Microsoft,"

So what's the problem?


What did Gamestop initially expected?



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