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TheSource said:

Good to know that Greenburg reads Vgchartz. My guess is its too early for Microsoft to put out hard data so even if our figures are within 2% of Kinect's actual performance, he is doubting that numbers could be in more than the fact that the figures are valid or invalid.

Microsoft is the least transparent with its figures of the big three, never totalling software shipments, splits by region, no projections are ever issued, and all figures are American-centric at a time when Southern and Central Europe and Latin America are the fastest growing markets. I'd reckon if Kinect shipments were already over 1m, we'd have a press-release detailing that. Anything under 1m would look poor, given the massive Wii base, and even the 2.5m Move pieces shipped to the West since September. Given 5m is the goal by the end of 2010, and that there are roughly 9 weeks in the year for Kinect, they've likely only shipped 600,000-700,000 Kinect's for the period Brett is speaking of, and so any press release we do get won't be until next week.


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heruamon said:

LOL...it is funny that it's fine for the people on this board to slam the VGC staff for getting data inccorect, but then slam a M$ Official for saying VGC got the data wrong for a M$ released product, which M$ problem has people tracking...this site is too funny.  Kinda funny, since Kinect was only suppose to sell like 1.5 LTD according to some, and that was being generous, according to them...lol.

When was the last time anyone who slammed VGC numbers without anything contructive to say got taken seriously? I can't remember. Greenburg can say what he wants, but no matter who you are, if you say it like a jerk, you're gonna look like a jerk.



I'd laugh my ass off if the sales were spot on LOL



Rainbird said:
heruamon said:

LOL...it is funny that it's fine for the people on this board to slam the VGC staff for getting data inccorect, but then slam a M$ Official for saying VGC got the data wrong for a M$ released product, which M$ problem has people tracking...this site is too funny.  Kinda funny, since Kinect was only suppose to sell like 1.5 LTD according to some, and that was being generous, according to them...lol.

When was the last time anyone who slammed VGC numbers without anything contructive to say got taken seriously? I can't remember. Greenburg can say what he wants, but no matter who you are, if you say it like a jerk, you're gonna look like a jerk.


Well said!

If you have some facts showing that VGChartz are off then show those facts and debate, instead of going the trollolol route. It's very hard to take someone seriously who goes directly for the insults instead of good arguments.



Since when is Aaron Doucheberg considered a reliable source of information?



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Alby_da_Wolf said:

Since when is Aaron Doucheberg considered a reliable source of information?


He's a reliable source of misinformation!



Mr.Metralha said:

I'd laugh my ass off if the sales were spot on LOL

LOLOLOL!!!

Me too



forest-spirit said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Since when is Aaron Doucheberg considered a reliable source of information?


He's a reliable source of misinformation!

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My question is why Greenberg felt compelled to twit about it?

 

Anyone daring to suggest sales below 500K *Shock Horror!* even if it's only for the first couple 'o days might peev them a bit, because they want to manage sales info and for the first announcement of sales to be in the millions. The merest hint that there's a sub-million sales number out in the wild could be perceived as negative press for Kinect (even though it's not), in which case maybe it needs a low key rebuff through something like Twitter. And rebuffing in a way that also dismisses or discredits the source of the offending data helps to marginalise the reported number.



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