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Reach on 21 November 2010
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.



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Beuli2 on 21 November 2010
Reach said:
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.

Did you even read what he said?



Above: still the best game of the year.

dahuman on 21 November 2010
Reach said:
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.

You do realize that the US and UK are the primary 360 regions right? The US covered about 550k  which is about right on it's home turf, we are talking about the rest of the world that covered the rest of that 1.1 million with UK most likely being a big part of that, 2 countries is not global penetration. Current Nintendo level is global penetration, PS2 level is global penetration. If you even think for a moment that Kinect will be big in Asian countries, you would be very very delusional.



dahuman on 21 November 2010
Beuli2 said:
Reach said:
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.

Did you even read what he said?

Just don't worry about it, if people want to read and understand something, they will, if they don't want to actually understand what's in front of them, then just let them be, it's the internetz!



welshbloke on 21 November 2010

I think we have already highlighted that the Japanese are no more constrained on space than the a person living in the UK. What you do have is circumstances in which Japanese live in very little space but then you also have a lot of Japanese living in large homes it rather depends on where you live.

Also it is worth noting that the traditional Japanese homes really only have 1 room which is transformed into whatever it needs to be at the time. Most items are stored. I doubt this practice continues today but it does mean the Japanese are less likely to throw a wobbly because they had to rearrange the living room.

 

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dahuman on 21 November 2010
welshbloke said:

I think we have already highlighted that the Japanese are no more constrained on space than the a person living in the UK. What you do have is circumstances in which Japanese live in very little space but then you also have a lot of Japanese living in large homes it rather depends on where you live.

Also it is worth noting that the traditional Japanese homes really only have 1 room which is transformed into whatever it needs to be at the time. Most items are stored. I doubt this practice continues today but it does mean the Japanese are less likely to throw a wobbly because they had to rearrange the living room.

 


It continues to this day, only even worse for the average people who live around the cities (which is the majority,) unless you live in the country side which well, I'd rather be outside than gaming if I was to live in those areas. I'm not saying Kinect as a product will fail, I'm saying that it's not designed with global penetration in mind to start with as there is a pretty wide cultural gap when they designed that thing. Small, slick, cute and reasonably priced gadgets that doesn't require a lot of space to work with will always sell well everywhere, Wii is a living example of such pych in mind, same with iDevices and the rise in tablets and netbooks. Such a device, Kinect is not.



Reach on 21 November 2010
dahuman said:
Reach said:
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.

You do realize that the US and UK are the primary 360 regions right? The US covered about 550k  which is about right on it's home turf, we are talking about the rest of the world that covered the rest of that 1.1 million with UK most likely being a big part of that, 2 countries is not global penetration. Current Nintendo level is global penetration, PS2 level is global penetration. If you even think for a moment that Kinect will be big in Asian countries, you would be very very delusional.

im quoting on this... See u on some months to show you this wuote... hahah



dahuman on 21 November 2010
Reach said:
dahuman said:
Reach said:
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.

You do realize that the US and UK are the primary 360 regions right? The US covered about 550k  which is about right on it's home turf, we are talking about the rest of the world that covered the rest of that 1.1 million with UK most likely being a big part of that, 2 countries is not global penetration. Current Nintendo level is global penetration, PS2 level is global penetration. If you even think for a moment that Kinect will be big in Asian countries, you would be very very delusional.

im quoting on this... See u on some months to show you this wuote... hahah

I haven't been wrong with these kind of predictions yet since I joined the forums, I've had wishful thinking but I also know when to have my reality checks. Just remember the region we are talking about. I'm very knowledgeable when it comes to Asian countries because well, I am one and I know what they look for. I don't need theories or guesses when I know what they think are hot products for the masses. This is not a global penetration device like an iPhone/iPod or a Nintendo handheld and can't even match up to a Wii that's working on a 10 year old technology by now due to late arrival, and that's that.



Reach on 21 November 2010
dahuman said:
Reach said:
dahuman said:
Reach said:
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.

You do realize that the US and UK are the primary 360 regions right? The US covered about 550k  which is about right on it's home turf, we are talking about the rest of the world that covered the rest of that 1.1 million with UK most likely being a big part of that, 2 countries is not global penetration. Current Nintendo level is global penetration, PS2 level is global penetration. If you even think for a moment that Kinect will be big in Asian countries, you would be very very delusional.

im quoting on this... See u on some months to show you this wuote... hahah

I haven't been wrong with these kind of predictions yet since I joined the forums, I've had wishful thinking but I also know when to have my reality checks. Just remember the region we are talking about. I'm very knowledgeable when it comes to Asian countries because well, I am one and I know what they look for. I don't need theories or guesses when I know what they think are hot products for the masses. This is not a global penetration device like an iPhone/iPod or a Nintendo handheld and can't even match up to a Wii that's working on a 10 year old technology by now due to late arrival, and that's that.

Your opinion , i accept it has i allways do.



dahuman on 21 November 2010
Reach said:
dahuman said:
Reach said:
dahuman said:
Reach said:
dahuman said:

Kinect won't work there simply because of the living space avaliable to the average consumers there, there is simply no room, the way the Wii was designed is that it'd work even in small rooms, so the Move followed that path. There is a good reason why the PS2 camera and Eyetoy never took off even in that country, room, room, room! people just DON'T have the space. I know a lot of Euro people will face that problem too. It was a good idea, with design flaws, it's simply not a good device for global penetration.

1.1 M first 10 days says HI.

haha love this random kids who try to act saying Kinect wont have penetration when its selling like hot cakes.

Europe living rooms are huge at least in UK and my Country.

You do realize that the US and UK are the primary 360 regions right? The US covered about 550k  which is about right on it's home turf, we are talking about the rest of the world that covered the rest of that 1.1 million with UK most likely being a big part of that, 2 countries is not global penetration. Current Nintendo level is global penetration, PS2 level is global penetration. If you even think for a moment that Kinect will be big in Asian countries, you would be very very delusional.

im quoting on this... See u on some months to show you this wuote... hahah

I haven't been wrong with these kind of predictions yet since I joined the forums, I've had wishful thinking but I also know when to have my reality checks. Just remember the region we are talking about. I'm very knowledgeable when it comes to Asian countries because well, I am one and I know what they look for. I don't need theories or guesses when I know what they think are hot products for the masses. This is not a global penetration device like an iPhone/iPod or a Nintendo handheld and can't even match up to a Wii that's working on a 10 year old technology by now due to late arrival, and that's that.

Your opinion , i accept it has i allways do.

Well, you can be assured that I won't quote you even if I'm right, since I have class.