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bannedagain on 10 December 2010

I think considering the user base that it has done pretty well for itself.

let's talk about this when 10 million kinect units have been sold.



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themanwithnoname on 10 December 2010

The example they use is Harry Potter? I totally forgot everyone has been dying for that game to come out ever since it was announced! /sarcasm



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Kyren on 10 December 2010

Maybe they just want to hack the kinect?



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Reasonable on 10 December 2010

I get the distinct feeling that a lot of early Move/Kinect owners are sticking to one, maybe two, titles and some demos and waiting for the presumed better titles to come.  Almost everyone you speak to with either peripheral invariably talks about how the next batch of titles will really show what the devices can do.

So long as Kinect/360 bundles sell like they have in US MS will be happy enough at this point I think.

I mean, let's be serious, Move only has one good title, SC, and one good PSN title, Tumble, at the moment (I'm ignoring Heavy Rain, etc and yes they're good) while Kinect, ignorning the pack in title (which ain't bad) only has two good titles as well, Kinect Sports and Dance Central, and one okay title, Kinectimals (or whatever the hellish spelling of that title is).

I'd actually hate to see titles for either selling (outside the aforementioned good ones) like hotcakes at the moment as it would erode my faith in people not to buy average to below average products.

So personally, I'm not really surprised with the sales at the moment.



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LivingMetal on 10 December 2010
Reasonable said:

I get the distinct feeling that a lot of early Move/Kinect owners are sticking to one, maybe two, titles and some demos and waiting for the presumed better titles to come.  Almost everyone you speak to with either peripheral invariably talks about how the next batch of titles will really show what the devices can do.

So long as Kinect/360 bundles sell like they have in US MS will be happy enough at this point I think.

I mean, let's be serious, Move only has one good title, SC, and one good PSN title, Tumble, at the moment (I'm ignoring Heavy Rain, etc and yes they're good) while Kinect, ignorning the pack in title (which ain't bad) only has two good titles as well, Kinect Sports and Dance Central, and one okay title, Kinectimals (or whatever the hellish spelling of that title is).

I'd actually hate to see titles for either selling (outside the aforementioned good ones) like hotcakes at the moment as it would erode my faith in people not to buy average to below average products.

So personally, I'm not really surprised with the sales at the moment.

It's a fad.  You know, like that Wii thingy.

;)



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Squilliam on 10 December 2010

Well based on a rough calculation the attach rate for Kinect games is currently around 0.66 exclusive of Kinect adventures, 1.66 inclusive. That isn't too bad for a platform which is only about a month old on average.



Tease.

Mr.Metralha on 10 December 2010
PlaystaionGamer said:

LOOOOOL

@ OP

I've been noticing that, and if you take a look at Move-specific titles, the scenario isn't looking any better either...



Goddbless on 10 December 2010

I can't believe they compared the game to the movie as if it means the game is as good as the movie.



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Barozi on 10 December 2010
Reasonable said:

I get the distinct feeling that a lot of early Move/Kinect owners are sticking to one, maybe two, titles and some demos and waiting for the presumed better titles to come.  Almost everyone you speak to with either peripheral invariably talks about how the next batch of titles will really show what the devices can do.

So long as Kinect/360 bundles sell like they have in US MS will be happy enough at this point I think.

I mean, let's be serious, Move only has one good title, SC, and one good PSN title, Tumble, at the moment (I'm ignoring Heavy Rain, etc and yes they're good) while Kinect, ignorning the pack in title (which ain't bad) only has two good titles as well, Kinect Sports and Dance Central, and one okay title, Kinectimals (or whatever the hellish spelling of that title is).

I'd actually hate to see titles for either selling (outside the aforementioned good ones) like hotcakes at the moment as it would erode my faith in people not to buy average to below average products.

So personally, I'm not really surprised with the sales at the moment.

Exactly

As far as Kinect games go the good to decent ones are also the ones selling the most, which are Kinect Sports, Dance Central, Your Shape and Kinectimals.

There simply aren't enogh decent games out yet.

Let's not forget that there are also normal 360 games available.
Kinect software ratio will never be as high as Wii software ratio for example, because of that reason. Simply not possible.



Mr Puggsly on 10 December 2010
themanwithnoname said:

The example they use is Harry Potter? I totally forgot everyone has been dying for that game to come out ever since it was announced! /sarcasm

But its tied to a popular movie.

All games tied to movies are huge!



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