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gekkokamen on 17 December 2010
kowenicki said:

Kinect is one of, if not THE, best home platform launch ever?

Isn’t it?

 

Wii after 6 weeks (30th December)

Hardware:  2,932,010

Top 5 software

Wii Sports         2,550,825 (bundled)

Zelda                1,801,085 (existing large franchise)

Play                  778,542 (bundled with free controller)

Red Steel          288,171

Rayman RR       226,390

 

PS3 after 6 weeks (23rd December) staggered launch

Hardware:  1,078,074

Only one title above 200k

 

360 after 6 weeks (31st December 2005)

Hardware:  1,169,924

One title above 500k

Two titles above 300k

One title above 200k

 

 

 

 

 

KINECT after 6 weeks (11th December 2010)

Hardware: 3,978,868

Adventures       3,978,868 (bundled)

Sports              1,246,435

Dance central    717,292

Kinectimals       367,501

Your Shape       246,985


So Kinect is a home platform now? 8th console generation start confirmed then?

Wii Fit sold very close to it and it wasn't released by X-mas or heavily bundled with the Wii on its first 6 weeks. I think Wii Fit wins. Sorry to burst your bubble, but if Kinect is a home platform, so is Wii Fit.

 

Wii Fit Sales (Wii)

Week Americas Japan EMEAA Worldwide Running Total
1 729,598 252,510 638,416 1,620,524 1,620,524
2 104,054 152,840 334,381 591,275 2,211,799
3 43,139 121,330 225,654 390,123 2,601,922
4 88,811 216,456 137,726 442,993 3,044,915
5 62,626 135,580 86,525 284,731 3,329,646
6 95,318 110,944 58,649 264,911 3,594,557
Ten Week Totals: 1,494,465 1,350,701 1,692,859 4,538,025
Lifetime Totals: 9,587,881 3,594,272 9,506,278 22,688,431


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Fab_GS on 17 December 2010
4k1x3r said:
kowenicki said:
HKN said:

Uncomparable , you cannot compare new systems to new add ons.



I dont agree.

Kinect is a platform.

Lawl x) so I can play Kinect without X360. Yep tell me how?


Yes, Kinect is a platform. But not a console. It can be played without X360.



LivingMetal on 17 December 2010
gekkokamen said:
kowenicki said:

Kinect is one of, if not THE, best home platform launch ever?

Isn’t it?

 

Wii after 6 weeks (30th December)

Hardware:  2,932,010

Top 5 software

Wii Sports         2,550,825 (bundled)

Zelda                1,801,085 (existing large franchise)

Play                  778,542 (bundled with free controller)

Red Steel          288,171

Rayman RR       226,390

 

PS3 after 6 weeks (23rd December) staggered launch

Hardware:  1,078,074

Only one title above 200k

 

360 after 6 weeks (31st December 2005)

Hardware:  1,169,924

One title above 500k

Two titles above 300k

One title above 200k

 

 

 

 

 

KINECT after 6 weeks (11th December 2010)

Hardware: 3,978,868

Adventures       3,978,868 (bundled)

Sports              1,246,435

Dance central    717,292

Kinectimals       367,501

Your Shape       246,985


So Kinect is a home platform now? 8th console generation start confirmed then?

Be careful.  You might be accused of trolling.



fwap on 17 December 2010
nightsurge said:

Wow, some people.

Kinect is a platform.  The games are separate from standard 360 games, they REQUIRE Kinect to play their games and you CAN'T play Kinect games without a Kinect device.

Now instead of griping over what you feel or don't feel is considered a platform, how about you comment on the actual figures themselves?  He is free to make any comparison that he wishes and I think it seems some of you can't get past a single word.

Would you rather he put best "hardware" launch ever? Or even "gaming hardware" or "motion platform"?

Stop derailing a perfectly reasonable thread, it's against the rules.  Perhaps you can have a mod clear up these off topic, irrelevant posts?

OT:  That really is impressive.  It does show the haters that Kinect is moving plenty of software given its age and current userbase.  Great thread.


Let's get this straight. The Move/Kinect/Wii Remote are not platforms. Needing one to play a motion game on either the PS3/360/Wii does not make them a platform, and does not make them hardware. They are peripherals. They are motion devices that allow you to play motion games on your platform/hardware of choice.

Talking about Kinect sales is fine, so long as they aren't being flounted as anything that they aren't. Don't come in here pre-emptively crying "DERAILMENT!" when all that is being pointed out is that a comparison with console hardware is redundant.



Viper1 on 17 December 2010
kowenicki said:
Viper1 said:

You might want to look into the DS launch.  Kinect gets beaten rather easily.



yeah, probably.  thats one then.

any more?

im glad you actually looked into it and could only find the DS that beats it....

proves the point really.

It's not that I only fond DS, I started with DS, found it more had a more profound launch and stopped there.  Didn't think I needed to look further to prove Kinect wasn't the most successful platform launch when the first one I looked into beat it.



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fwap on 17 December 2010
Fab_GS said:


Yes, Kinect is a platform. But not a console. It can be played without X360.


So can a Wii Remote and Wii games be used and played without a Wii...



LivingMetal on 17 December 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

:::jinglejingle:::



Fab_GS on 17 December 2010
fwap said:

So can a Wii Remote and Wii games be used and played without a Wii...


But Wii Remote is a controller. Not a platform.



huaxiong90 on 17 December 2010

Ugh...this thread was nitpicked to death.

Why am I surprised though?

But that aside, didn't the iPhone have a bigger 6 weeks (or one of them, at least)?

In any case, it'll be interesting to see how Kinect holds up once the holiday effect wears off.



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Reasonable on 17 December 2010

It's had a great launch, no doubt about it, but I have one nitpick with your approach.

Kinect launched both as a bundle - which I will accept as a new platform purchase - and standalone selling to existing customers - which I struggle with as those have to been seen as peripheral sales.

The last figure from  ioi quoted 40% bundles and 60% standalone so for me the correct way to view it is (taking a rounded 4 million figure):

sales as a platform (360/Kinect bundle) - 1,600,000 million

sales as a peripheral (Kinect only) - 2,400,000 million

I just don't think you can fairly count sales that only happened because there was an existing install base against Wii or any other console at launch with zero install base.

 



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