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With almost 4 million units sold Kinect has apparently took the industry by  storm. I will be the first to admit selling 4 million of these at a robust 150 is very impressive. However, when you consider its impact on software sales Kinect has been a flop. By removing Kinect adventures from the system Kinect would have an attach rate of under 1. So it seems that while a ton of people are buying Kinects they just aren't buying the games. So what does that say for Microsoft's upcoming core lineup?

I am worried that games like Child of Eden and other core entries are going to flop leaving only stuff like Kinect sports (one of the few decent selling Kinect games) behind.

What are you thoughts/ predictions?



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Kinect was a succsess yes. its games liek u said are...well not so good :P



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kowenicki said:

Get a grip!!  is my response

Come with em on a journey back in time....

Its the 30th December 2006, the Wii has been out for 6 weeks...  oh.. thats handy

Want to see the top 5 selling Wii games at this point (an even busier better period for sales)

Wii Sports 2.5m (bundled)

Zelda: 1.8m (massive existing franchise)

Wii Play: 778k (bundled with the extra controller)

Red Steel: 288k

Rayman RR: 226k

 

LOL.  Get the hell out of here!

 

lol.....nice one



Yes it is a success. Though I bet if every product had a $500 million advertising budget then it would sell pretty well.



kowenicki said:

oh ... and you're "worried"

Please spare us the fake concern.. its quite pathetic.

 


U dont seem to be in the best of moods O.o



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kowenicki said:

Get a grip!!  is my response

Come with em on a journey back in time....

Its the 30th December 2006, the Wii has been out for 6 weeks...  oh.. thats handy

Want to see the top 5 selling Wii games at this point (an even busier better period for sales)

Wii Sports 2.5m (bundled)

Zelda: 1.8m (massive existing franchise)

Wii Play: 778k (bundled with the extra controller)

Red Steel: 288k

Rayman RR: 226k

 

LOL.  Get the hell out of here!

 

/thread.  I too vote for a lock.



kowenicki said:

Get a grip!!  is my response

Come with em on a journey back in time....

Its the 30th December 2006, the Wii has been out for 6 weeks...  oh.. thats handy

Want to see the top 5 selling Wii games at this point (an even busier better period for sales)

Wii Sports 2.5m (bundled)

Zelda: 1.8m (massive existing franchise)

Wii Play: 778k (bundled with the extra controller)

Red Steel: 288k

Rayman RR: 226k

 

LOL.  Get the hell out of here!

 

Is this true? That's not a significantly better attach rate for the Wii at that point then.

This surprises even me greatly.