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How much will Kinect sell First Week in Japan?

~10k 126 45.65%
 
10k~25k 63 22.83%
 
25k~50k 35 12.68%
 
more than 50k 50 18.12%
 
Total:274
Seece on 14 November 2010
Mr.Metralha said:
Seece said:
Mr.Metralha said:
Seece said:
Eddie_Raja said:

I had to select ~10k since ~none wasn't an option.  With how small the living space is in that country, you would be retarded to get it.  Not tomention the abysmal 360 interest there...

I guess the tens of thousands that bought it in the UK this week were retarded too then

If they have small japanese style living rooms, yes, they are very retarded because it wont work properly has reported by some users.

I don't know anybody with a lounge where Kinect wouldn't work. and I know all sorts of people from different walks of life.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20021679-1.html

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/04/kinect-vs-our-living-rooms-a-survey/

have fun =)

And for those dozen, there and many many more capable of Kinect. Cherry picking FTW!

Edit - Also you should actually read the articles you post, it was actually pretty positive



 

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Mr.Metralha on 14 November 2010
Seece said:
Mr.Metralha said:
Seece said:
Mr.Metralha said:
Seece said:
Eddie_Raja said:

I had to select ~10k since ~none wasn't an option.  With how small the living space is in that country, you would be retarded to get it.  Not tomention the abysmal 360 interest there...

I guess the tens of thousands that bought it in the UK this week were retarded too then

If they have small japanese style living rooms, yes, they are very retarded because it wont work properly has reported by some users.

I don't know anybody with a lounge where Kinect wouldn't work. and I know all sorts of people from different walks of life.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20021679-1.html

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/04/kinect-vs-our-living-rooms-a-survey/

have fun =)

And for those dozen, there and many many more capable of Kinect. Cherry picking FTW!

Edit - Also you should actually read the articles you post, it was actually pretty positive

Stop cherry picking. You didn't know about cases of kinect space requirement I linked you to some.

I also have a friend who just bought kinect and despite it is working, he had to change forniture on his living room for it to work.

 



zuvuyeay on 14 November 2010

i live in a shoebox in england with horribly thin walls,some builders in england need to be hung,drawn and quartered cheap bastards

its all i can afford right now *cries*

anyway i guess it won't fly off the shelves but you never know in the future if they get games that hit a nerve with japanese it could really turn things around for the 360,i don't think the japanese are as xenophobic as people make out



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Mr.Metralha on 14 November 2010
zuvuyeay said:

i live in a shoebox in england with horribly thin walls,some builders in england need to be hung,drawn and quartered cheap bastards

its all i can afford right now *cries*

anyway i guess it won't fly off the shelves but you never know in the future if they get games that hit a nerve with japanese it could really turn things around for the 360,i don't think the japanese are as xenophobic as people make out

I actually was reading through your post thinking you were giving your impressions about how Kinect works for you on your small room but once I realized you were not going to say anything related at all it was too late to stop reading.

pretty much like mine lol!



jarrod on 14 November 2010
D-Joe said:
maf said:
Seece said:
maf said:

How much did Move sell first week in Japan?

Sports Champs did 7k, so 15k?

Kinect will struggle to sell 10k if Move only managed 15k first week.

well it sell 49k

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=411354&page=4

For comparison, Wii Motion Plus sold 656k it's first week (360k w/WRS, 296k stand alone).

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366915

 

...and yet, somehow, Japanese support still looks like this...

 

Wii Motion Plus

  • Deca Sports 3 (Hudson)
  • FlingSmash (Nintendo / Artoon)
  • Hooked! Again: Real Motion Fishing (Aksys Games / Arc System Works / Sims)
  • The Cages: Pro Style Batting Practice (Konami / Alphaunit)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
  • Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
  • Zangeki no REGINLIEV (Nintendo / Sandlot)

 

PlayStation Move

  • Ape Escape Fury! Fury! (SCE / Japan Studio)
  • Beat Sketch! (SCE / will)
  • Dance Dance Revolution (Konami / Bemani Productions)
  • Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories (IREM Software Engineering)
  • Dynasty Warriors 7 (Tecmo Koei / Omega Force)
  • Kung-Fu Rider (SCE / Japan Studio)
  • Little League World Series Baseball (Activision / NowPro)
  • No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise (Konami / Marvelous / feelplus)
  • Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (Capcom)
  • Rune Factory Oceans (Marvelous / Neverland)
  • Time Crisis: Raizing Storm (Namco Bandai / NEX Entertainment)
  • Virtua Tennis 4 (Sega)

 

Kinect

  • Adrenalin Misfits (Konami)
  • Body and Brain Connection (Namco Bandai)
  • Child of Eden (Ubisoft / Q? Entertainment)
  • Codename D (MGS / Grasshopper Manufacture)
  • Dance Masters (Konami / Bemani Productions)
  • Deca Sports Freedom (Hudson)
  • Haunt (MGS / NanaOn-Sha)
  • Project Draco (MGS / Grounding / Land Ho!)
  • Rise of Nightmares (Sega)
  • Sonic Free Riders (Sega / Sonic Team)
  • Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor (Capcom / FROM Software)

 

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FinalEvangelion on 14 November 2010
zuvuyeay said:

i live in a shoebox in england with horribly thin walls,some builders in england need to be hung,drawn and quartered cheap bastards

its all i can afford right now *cries*

anyway i guess it won't fly off the shelves but you never know in the future if they get games that hit a nerve with japanese it could really turn things around for the 360,i don't think the japanese are as xenophobic as people make out


This is very true and I can atest to this from living there.  Many American companies have done okay over there (eg. Starbucks and Apple). 

 

It's more the way MS entered with the first Xbox.  You would have to imagine if a Japanese company released a console in the USA where 99% of the games were super Japanesey and all the male protagonists looked like girls.  Sony and Nintendo didn't do this.  Albeit, I wouldn't mind to much and would get the console - but I'm in the 5% that's different than the other 95% of Americans.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 14 November 2010
kowenicki said:

SDick of this size of room myth too.  The average size of a house in Japan is almost identical to the average size of a house in the UK...

Ameicans in particular look at Japanese houses and think wow, they are so small... they are looking at it wrong... it is US houses that are so big.  All European and Far Eastern houses are small in comparison to the US/Canada/Australia. 

 

Figures from the 2003 Housing and Land Survey conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications indicate that Japan had 53,890,900 housing units at the time. Of these, 46,862,900 (86.9%) were occupied and 7,027,900 (13.0%) unoccupied. Of the occupied units, 28,665,900 (61.2%) were owned by the resident household. The average number of rooms per unit of housing was 4.77, the average total floor area in was 94.85 square meters (28.69 tsubo; 1,021.0 sq ft)

Average. Houses in the country or in small towns are bigger, less expensive and more often owned, while in big towns with high cost of living they are on average quite smaller  (and more often rented, but this doesn't matter for what we're discussing). This applies to other countries too, but the huge average space available to Americans and Australians could contribute to decide where Kinect will succeed the most. Although I guess UK will give MS nice satisfactions anyway, despite the little space available.



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Fufinu on 14 November 2010

Why isn't there an option <5k?

The system in Japan will have no voice recognition, will be limited by space (Japan residences are renowed for being small), there is a very small uptake of 360 and Kinekt sells a lot to existing users.



FF_Fanatic on 14 November 2010

kinect won't sell much in japan and lol at all the people who thought move only sold 15k it nearly sold 50k in it's first week not bad at all



D-Joe on 14 November 2010
Fufinu said:

Why isn't there an option <5k?

The system in Japan will have no voice recognition, will be limited by space (Japan residences are renowed for being small), there is a very small uptake of 360 and Kinekt sells a lot to existing users.

Japan have voice recognition in launch



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