Still don't understand about sales slowing significantly after the holidays.  Has that ever happened before with a hot product that people are enjoying like this???

Quality over quantity.People need to understand because something has sell a lot of units it doesn't mean its good.

Transformers 2 sold a lot of tickets and gain millions,but...it still sucked the big one

I think that title goes to Wii Fit balance board.....but then again I'm sure something else has sold faster. uhm

Well done Microsoft!

Will probably pick one up next year.

Nope!

Check your numbers.

Kinect is slightly ahead of Wii Fit sales (launch aligned).

After 5 weeks:

Wii Balance board: 3,329,646

Kinect: 3,551,315  (Japan sales of just 3 weeks)

They don't count phones and certain other devices - so it's a bit of a caveated 'best'.

I don't get the rules for where they draw the line.  If you check some of the source posts for the Ipad for example you'll see they note phones are not included.  I'm also not sure if the 'best' is global or US, all the sources seem a little ambivient there.  It's also a hard comparison as obviously price is a factor, and iPad's, for example, are a lot more expensive.

Still, huge sales as a new peripheral at that price point, whichever way you look at it, certainly outperformed my expectations.  I thought it would sell well in US but not at that level, and I thought price/space would hold in back in UK but in both cases I was too pessimistic.

Simply PR talk imo..

It would be unheard of for a consumer electronics device to not slow a little after the holidays.  Think about it, you've got normal demand plus gift demand across the holidays - that's a huge spike normally particularly for consumer electronics.

After the holidays people buying it as a gift should disappear and it should drop down to normal demand. Plus, people tend to overspend in the run up to the holidays then we see a frugal Jan/Feb for electronic devices (I mean in general of course).

Now, sometimes something becomes so hot, and supply constrained, during the holidays that demand continues at very high levels for a while after the holidays, but its very rare.

Demand for Kinect should almost definately drop.  If it doesn't, then Kinect will be really hot.  If it drops by normal percentages then all's still fine just Kinect is behaving in line with most electronics.

The question is will it be significant or not?  Depends on your view of what significant means.  Most electronics see a fairly big dip post holidays and that's considered normal.  I think given the launch right before the holidays it'll be a while before we can tell what significant means for Kinect and what is normal thought.

I disagree. The Rabbit seems to be the fastest selling device, thanks to the many women of the world. =P

I think outside US a standard drop is fairly likely... in US, after the numbers for 360/Kinect... it'll drop, but it might be less that I would have thought originally for a device with that price point.  I think it might hold some extra momentum in US for a while.