Yeah. I loved Mass Effect 2. I can't wait to buy part 3 for my 360. But my fav game is The Last Remnant. :P

I bought that game on release as well. Upset me though that I had so many commanders that I was unable to use in mt party.

Either way, Team SaGa FTW!

It hasn't even been out for that long and you think it's only 20% of advertising that has helped it? Damn... they wasted all that money for nothing....

kinect is a pure blast, my friends who all play the hardcore games mostly. when they tried kinect liked it alot and have been coming over a few times a week, just to play it.   that experience and fun they had with it, is  what has made 3 of them already buy kinect and a few others are on the verge of buying it as well. 

Please tell me what drugs you are on because I'd love to take some! (This comment is in regards to the topic of the thread)

 As for Reviews well here's a Verified Site for you http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/113/1132215p1.html (Kinect Hardware 7.5 and most games are below a 6/10)

Its a 50/50 thing just look at the latest Tony Hawk game, it had zero advertising and sold the least in the franchise.

Oh please. Why is it everytime I see a post being negative towards an action by Microsoft (even if it is warranted), someone claims it is butthurt ps3 fans? Sure some may be butthurt ps3 fans, but others dislike Kinect for other reasons which are completely warranted.

Trust me, if MS could have replicated this success without spending $500 million in marketing... they would have.  So don't second guess yourself in thinking that marketing is not a pivotal pillar in sales success.  If all distributors had to do was count on word of mouth, then they would.

Now obviously a lot of success is due to its popularity and word of mouth as well.  We'll see how this carries into 2011 and see where it can go.  If it can trend similarly to how Wii Fit/Wii Fit Plus did then we have a mega hit.  But obviously we are talking about the cream of the crop there.  Going to be about software, continued strong marketing, and of course continued strong word of mouth.  

Agree.

No, the marketing campaign included live demonstration. So many of the people who bought it week 1 tried it weeks previous to that. If it takes all of a week for a game to turn from hyped into flop because word of mouth travels even quicker with Facebook, txting, email etc today then it would have taken all of a week for Kinect to flop. The rest of the sales beyond the first week given the first week sales were a combination of hype/tried it can be considered educated purchases. Quite frankly the number of people who just bought it because it was on TV is so small as to be not worth talking about.