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donsterydo2 said:
Seece said:
FireBringer said:

Actually it isn't selling faster than "move", infact they (MS) lowered projections because of it. MS suffered better initial sales than Move did (week 1) but now they are on their same straw. I believe 360 owners are a little bit more protective of their tech and bought it than on Sony's camp. This is why they bought it on pre-order more so than the Move. But since these guys are gone from the market now, their sales will go stale just like the info says for data after week 1 so far. Once the buzz is gone, Kinect isn't anything special and won't sell as well as you think. Kinect is a snore fest, not ONE good game out nor coming out. Sad but true. I don't know a single person who bought the Kinect, and I know mess loads of 360 owners. Sorry, but I know this Kinect hype is just that, hype.. When the Black 360 revision came out, they all upgraded, and that sold well. None bought this, so I know it will die out flat in the water after the initial burst of sales. Not trying to hate, but people aren't gonna spend $150 for a stupid camera that costs $50 to make. Microsoft has to make the product a lot more appealing than it's now..

Never seen so much denial, rofl


He fails at so many levels :)


I agree with Firebringer =D, but he failed to remember that people bought the 360 regardless of all it's short comings.

A next gen machine that wasn't internet capable out the box, couldn't display in HD out of the box, to get it on the internet you needed to buy a proprietary dongle that would run your $100 extra dollars oh and $60 games =P.

The guys who baught 360 did so despite knowing that it could or actually would RROD on you to which you've probably lost a system and a game and that for the first two or three years Microsoft refused to acknowledge this issue.

People baught it despite all the issues that plauged the machine.

But firebringer hit the nail on the head, games... are the games our enough to warrent the purchases. If his speculation is true then nope =P.



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So Kinect was heavily bought in U.S. right?  What was it like 75% of purchases?



theprof00 said:
justinian said:
theprof00 said:

maybe you're not paying attention. forget it.

Don't worry,,,already have.

That was so snippy! Congratz

NO, STOP!!  His inability to comprehend a joke WILL DESTROY YOU!!



richardhutnik said:

Longer term sucess for Kinect will depend on how much Kinect is seen by people as being more of a Wii than the Wii itself.  Microsoft is pushing "You are the controller" angle a bunch here.  This is more of a Wii than the Wii itself.  Looks like Sony is pushing the motion control for the core, more hardcore.  Nintendo is getting hit on the upper and lower end here.  Again, it is still early, so wait and see here.

As far as it appearing to be a "no brainer" regarding Kinect outselling Move, one can't say that for a multitude of reasons.

I can.  As did most on these boards.  No one questioned Kinect's ability to outsell Move initially.  Especially with with all the hype MS was able to conjure up pre-release with their $500 mil ad budget for Kinect.  The only thing people have questioned was Kinect's ability to outsell Move in the long run.  Mostly, in my opinion, because there is going to be a point when the types of games you can pull off with Kinect will become repetitive.  Same thing happened with the original EyeToy for the PS2.



Really impressive 2nd week in the US.

470k almost as big as the first week.



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Huge for kinect as expected! 



EXCELLENT sales,congratulations Microsoft



thismeintiel said:
richardhutnik said:

Longer term sucess for Kinect will depend on how much Kinect is seen by people as being more of a Wii than the Wii itself.  Microsoft is pushing "You are the controller" angle a bunch here.  This is more of a Wii than the Wii itself.  Looks like Sony is pushing the motion control for the core, more hardcore.  Nintendo is getting hit on the upper and lower end here.  Again, it is still early, so wait and see here.

As far as it appearing to be a "no brainer" regarding Kinect outselling Move, one can't say that for a multitude of reasons.

I can.  As did most on these boards.  No one questioned Kinect's ability to outsell Move initially.  Especially with with all the hype MS was able to conjure up pre-release with their $500 mil ad budget for Kinect.  The only thing people have questioned was Kinect's ability to outsell Move in the long run.  Mostly, in my opinion, because there is going to be a point when the types of games you can pull off with Kinect will become repetitive.  Same thing happened with the original EyeToy for the PS2.



thats why there will be hybrid kinect/controlled games in the future

personally I would rather have that, than just flat out hands free games



kowenicki said:
NYANKS said:

So Kinect was heavily bought in U.S. right?  What was it like 75% of purchases?



Available 2 weeks in the US, 1 week elsewhere...  so no

like for like of 1st week sales is like this I think

US 470k

EU 330k

 


your use of like..... like makes me believe like your a teenage girl  lol



Good for Microsoft! I just hope it doesn't get too popular around here, I don't want it to be sold out... because I still need some time to convince my boyfriend that I REALLY need another console in the house.



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