i think we had had 12 kinects might have been more i wasn't there launch day but they really didn't sell till two days latter.  We probably have about 12 of the consule bundles as well the 4gig and 250gig from what i saw none of those had sold but didn't go deep in counting to see if they were all still there so we could have sold a few but no more than 3 of each.

no,

after a casual customer finds out it costs $300 and not $150, he might just get a Wii instead, or a DS as a gift for someone

hell, the pissed off customer might say bad things to his friends about Kinect, after being misled by Microsoft

how were people misled by MS, the salespeople should be asking if they have and XBOX 360 so shouldnt really be affecting sales imo

I will pick mine up in about 30 minutes. The store will be opened in 30 minutes so I will be one of the first customers. I might check how many units are there.

This is acutally the first time I preordered somethin at a media markt. I should ask if I was the only guy who did this :D

Isnt't it normal for the console maker when an accessory is low in supply to push for the bundles? We have seen this happen in the past. Now there aren't enought kinect to keep with the demand, so imo they are shipping more bundles then they normally would do. I wouldn't be surprised if the ratio was 50/50 or more. Beside everyone knew that kinect would have started by selling to people who already owned an xbox 360. The wii also started that way, usually casual gamers don't rush to buy something on day one.

This. Discovering that for those that don't already own a 360 the entry price is at least twice as much should be enough to change the inclination to buy of many people. But people discovering it after buying it would be not just disappointed, but actually pissed off.

The xbox360 will have the best ,BY FAR, November&December NPDs ever for the xbox brand because of kinect . The xbox360 kinect bundles are selling great even if they haven't sold out and it's natural that the standalone kinects are selling better since the 360 already has a 22 million userbase. That doesn't mean that kinect won't give a huge boost to the xbox360 hardware numbers. Let's just wait for the November NPD , at least .

Kinect with 360 bundled being sold out is probably due to people like Selnor and Kowenicki buying their 9000th Xbox 360 to keep in the storeroom so that the numbers for this week's 360 sold would be higher.

Thanks.

Strange scenario for the Kinect launch at my local Media Markt.

I live in a town with less than 40k habitants, so the Media Markt is pretty small. There were about 20 Xbox 360 with Kinect (10 for 4GB and 10 for 250GB) PLUS 5 Xbox 360 250GB and 5 Xbox 360 with 4GB.

There were only 4 (!!!) Kinect standalone units. So I said I preordered mine and the guy walks to the storehouse and brings me my Kinect Kinect Sports (I had both on preorder). There were NO Kinect games on the shelves at all. Seems like they did not do anything to put the games up or to promote Kinect. So I can't even give you my anecdotal evidence.

Again 40k people living here... Might be different 35km away in Hamburg with more than 2 million people.