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homer on 05 December 2010
Beuli2 said:
homer said:
Seece said:

VERY impressive, Kinect is fastest selling product in electronics history ... yet some people still try and make it sound negative xD I guess it means it's working if it has them fearful of it.


What about the wii fit balance board?

A kitchen weighting balance can't be considered an electronic.

Bu-bu-but it uses batteries.



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Beuli2 on 05 December 2010
homer said:
Beuli2 said:
homer said:
Seece said:

VERY impressive, Kinect is fastest selling product in electronics history ... yet some people still try and make it sound negative xD I guess it means it's working if it has them fearful of it.


What about the wii fit balance board?

A kitchen weighting balance can't be considered an electronic.

Bu-bu-but it uses batteries.

Don't try to outsmart me, boy.



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homer on 05 December 2010
Beuli2 said:
homer said:
Beuli2 said:
homer said:
Seece said:

VERY impressive, Kinect is fastest selling product in electronics history ... yet some people still try and make it sound negative xD I guess it means it's working if it has them fearful of it.


What about the wii fit balance board?

A kitchen weighting balance can't be considered an electronic.

Bu-bu-but it uses batteries.

Don't try to outsmart me, boy.

Pfft like that would be hard..... I take it back, please forgive me.



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radiantshadow92 on 05 December 2010
Machiavellian said:
radiantshadow92 said:

500 million dollar ad campaign near Christmas will do that. I do not go one day without seeing an ad for kinect.

Yeah because MS spent their 500 million ad BUDGET for their fiscal year already. 


I don't know, did they?



abhiram_33 on 05 December 2010

its funny cause a lot of people were making fun of the kinect but i guess  some of them are turning around and buying them



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heruamon on 05 December 2010

So, with an expected install base of 5 million by the end of the year...where will Kinect go?



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dreamcast210 on 06 December 2010
daroamer said:
Smashchu2 said:
Seece said:
Smashchu2 said:

Seeing as companies are notorious for shipped numbers, I'm skeptical to beleive thios. Esspecially as retailers have been saying they have a lot of stock.

Eh? No they havn't. And MS have been reporting sold figures only for Kinect. So be skepticle no more!

Both Microsoft and Sony are notorious for "shipped" numbers and everything about Kinect has been a ploy from the "previews," to the people actually waititng in line. It's hard to beleive Microsoft when Kinect was a lie all this time.

It's true, Kinect doesn't actually work.  It's really just a camera that is sending out a live video feed back to Microsoft HQ where they have people watching you and controlling your character with a proper controller.  We all know this thing can't possible work or be popular, it's unpossible!

It is amazing that 2.5 million people (and 5 million people by the end of the year) are buying something that doesn't work. You gotta hand it to MS. They know how to sell a product; even if it is a dud! 



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DirtyP2002 on 06 December 2010
Smashchu2 said:
Seece said:
Smashchu2 said:

Seeing as companies are notorious for shipped numbers, I'm skeptical to beleive thios. Esspecially as retailers have been saying they have a lot of stock.

Eh? No they havn't. And MS have been reporting sold figures only for Kinect. So be skepticle no more!

Both Microsoft and Sony are notorious for "shipped" numbers and everything about Kinect has been a ploy from the "previews," to the people actually waititng in line. It's hard to beleive Microsoft when Kinect was a lie all this time.


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Reasonable on 06 December 2010

Sales seem good, reading the article back to the original sources this sounds a little bit of a caveated 'fastest' to me.  For one it exludes phones so far as I can see (i.e. it's only a fastest if you exclude certain other devices) and it looks suspiciously like US only to me, too from the originating link.  I know it's a nitpick, but as a European I do get tired of reading 'best, fastest' etc in all encompasing terms in articles only to then find it seems to mean in US only and that in fact some cheap rip off in China is selling three times faster.

Still mighty good sales though in US, and now I have a 360 I'll probably add a Kinect in January - maxed out with buying for December already.



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