Just curious, what games are these folks planning on buying for Kinect? I mean considering they just put down a $300 for a brand new console all for a peripheral that currently supports about 18 games, there must be some games they are really ecstatic to play. Or did they all just throw down $300 just for Kinect Adventures?

I'm honestly not trying to sound like a smartass, I'm genuinly curious as to what are the games that are causing people to be up in arms with this deveice? Dance central looks ok I guess but I might as well get Just Dance for about $150 cheaper. All of the other games just don't seem worth it to me.

I think there are other reasons.

For example a bigass 500 million dollar marketing budget - that's 100 dollars spent on advertising etc. for every single person who bought Kinect so far! Microsoft obviously didn't believe that the device would become a success without massive advertising.

And Kinect is by far not as popular in Europe as it is in the USA. It's absolutely no problem to get Kinect bundles over here, it actually rather seems that Microsoft is rather overshipping Kinect bundles to Europe, as many european Amazon stores are already selling the bundles at heavily discounted prices (for example over 20 Euros less than the official price in my country).

How will we know if it's profiting already, they spent so much on it that I think it will take them time to start profitting, anyway I think it was abvious that it would sell and will win against PS3 move , but I am certin it will not defeat WII , the Nintendo console is cheaper to get & it comes with it's move (U will only need to buy WII fit as a stand alone) and that will be vital in the long run, it's still too early but we should congratulate Microsoft for a Job well done.

Do you really don't see the difference between

a) someone having a bad opinion on a product

and

b) Personally insulting another person?

I'm a 360fan or should i say was till kinect launched. Microsoft are just focusing on their casual gamers now and next year i almost just se Kinect games wich i hate!!! Look at what they have done with Rare,they have maked them to an Kinect game devoleper. Their is only one game i am looking forward for the xbox360.Gears Of War 3.

People should wait for Kinect's first year in review before declaring it a game winning success.

It had a great launch, exceeding all industry expectations, supported by a highly successful marketing campaign. Initial soft sales, while far from staggering given the sheer number of Kinect units moved this season, are still respectable. In short, it's safe to say everyone is not buying Kinect to hack and fool around with on their PC or Mac.

My only big question mark in regards to Kinect is what are the AAA titles in 2011 that really justify buying the peripheral? It was one of the hot gifts for holiday 2010, and now it's time to deliver the software.

Yes, Dance Central is a great expanded audience title that will continue to sell as an evergreen title; same for Kinect Sports. But the core Xbox audience really hasn't been told what benefits they'll be enjoying by having Kinect in terms of a Gears of War or Halo title that successfully incorporates Kinect interaction. There's Forza 4, but no serious player is actually going to use dumbed down Kinect controls when it's a given that any serious player is already using a Logitec steering wheel controller for driving games. There's always the possiblity of a Fable 4 with Kinect given the character interaction demonstration/simulation done with Milo, but that won't be happening in 2011 if at all.

So there seems to be this smug attitude over the success of Kinect with essentially nothing to show for it other than impressive hardware sales figures that mean nothing until those translate into better support in the form of better games.

I'm still waiting; I'm not sure why others are celebrating.

Oh, advertisement ist something bad?

Do you know the budget of Sony or Nintendo? Here in Germany there were masses of TV-Ads for Move and GT 5. That is something complete different, isn't it? On Nick nearly every advertisement-break was filled with Wii-Products. Unfair, isn't it? 

After the holidays nearly every big retailer discounts Hardware. You can get  in Germany discounts on the PS 3, the Wii, the DS, the 360. They all failed during the holidays?

And the thing is, the Kinect sensor totally works. Anyone not impressed or at least amused by the growing volume of things being done via hardware hack are deliberately stifling their opinions of the tech in the interest of remaining stubbornly biased against it.

The thing that boggles my mind is that literally EVERYTHING impressive I've seen about Kinect has been related to hardware hacks done by end users and engineers.

Complaints by core Xbox users over the emphasis on Kinect soft development is not completely unfounded. While it's foolish to think this will result in a drastic reduction in core titles, if Kinect interactivity isn't at least made optional in some of the big franchise titles, it may well become a dumping ground for "expanded audience" games with dumbed down controls.

Oh, i still hate Kinect, i hated it from the moment it was revealed and and i would hate it just as much if Sony would have developed it and will continue on hating it.

But it's true i hate it in silence, because there is not much to say about it. is there?

...except maybe there are a lot of threads celebrating it's sales. there are a lot of threads praising it's possible potential, but there are hardly any threads about it's games and how fun they are and how much people love to play them.

of course i am not saying it's not fun, but i think most of the people enjoying kinect don't post in forums, Gamers post in forums. But there seems to be  the problem. Kinect is a success, but as it seems to me it does not much cater to the forum audiences (and i deliberately do not call them hardcore gamers).

Of course Xbox fans are happy about the success, it just seems that what they talk about mainly is it's sales, rather then what it does for them personally.

but that is not a bad thing either, as you can be sure your casuals have a lot of fun, and that is what counts, doesn't it?

You fail! You forgot mentioning that it's been beating Balance Board for weeks even during Xmas period when it used to be teh unbeatable peripheral, and even heavily bundling it in some regions didn't save it from teh mighty K! After this you should have mocked Malstrom and its minions, obviously.   

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=40531&reg=World&date=40167&console=&maker=

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=40167&reg=World&date=40531&console=&maker=

Edit: OTOH I predicted it would have been a dangerous competitor for BB more than for anything else, and do you know how I did it? Reading Pachter related threads, he transmitted me some of his überanalyst superpowers!