Bravo.......

Excellent start just in the Americas.

Now the question is how much hardware this boosted.

Good start, but not great, imho.

I don't know the estimated sales numbers from M$, but the launch week of Wii Fit was 729,598.

Nevertheless, next weeks will be more interesting. Are Kinect users just XB360 user buying Kinect or is 360-HW really boosted with newbies?

more than 1 million games sold!

Great numbers. They sold 10% of their holiday expectations in 3 days in NA only.

It'll be kind of hard to determine that as next weeks numbers will include the European Kinect launch, but it will also include the launch week of COD: Black Ops which should give a boost to HW as well (I'm pretty sure there are 360 BO bundles).

Estimated sales numbers from MS were originally 3 million throughout the holidays, but they increased that number to 5 million Kinects through the holidays, just before the launch.

You're right!

But perhaps M$ gives some bundled numbers, ahh probably not.

On topic, all depending on legs now...

I wouldn't call it a success so far, but neither a fail.

500 million marketing = 500 unit sold  

not good :(

500k Kinects sold...That's $75 million in hardware sales alone in 2 days, not including what they made from the increase in 360 console sales or software, and that $500 mil for marketing wasn't just for launch. It's gonna be spent throughout the entire holiday season. I'd say MS is fine with the results so far.

Impressive but as with Move its not any kind of indicator to ultimate sell through.

I think once the dust has settled around Easter we will get some idea of how the HD Twins have faired with their respective "unofficial" reboots.

You do realize that the 500 million marketing isnt just the launch marketing budget.