Kinect sales are somewhat responsible for Xbox's surge during the holidays, but less than most people think.

People forget the obvious fact that Xbox 360 ALWAYS rises during the holiday season, as do the other consoles.

Plus, you've got Call of Duty: Black Ops, a new Halo game, and a much better value and better designed 360 model. So you have many people rebuying their consoles (I'm not too proud to say I'm one of those people, and I know a few others who did as well). Those are the main reasons for the 360's sales going up during the holidays.

The Kinect 360 boost is VASTLY overstated. Are people really going out and spending $300 to place another Dance game and a Wii Sports knockoff? I highly doubt it..

It never ceases to amaze me how passionately people here defend a hardware add on. I just look at those games and, I cannot understand it.. Boggles the mind.

I mean do people here really WANT games like that? Or to play games without a controller?

Is the Kinect boost to the Xbox 360 an illusion?..

no  You're not ''neo'' and this is not the matrix, is vgchartz

You can't understand that people have different tastes in games?  And yes, people WANT games like that, 8 million have already got one.  It's not for you, who cares?  I don't want one now but I won't downplay its success or say crap like it's sales will fall to obscurity. 

You can't understand that people have different tastes in games?  And yes, people WANT games like that, 8 million have already got one.  It's not for you, who cares?  I don't want one now but I won't downplay its success or say crap like it's sales will fall to obscurity. 

A couple of things: 

• From what I understand, the $500 million is the entire marketing budget, not the Kinect marketing budget.
• Selling the console isn't where the bulk of the money is made.  Kinects cost next to nothing to make.  Also, game sales are where consoles make their money.  It's the "Razor blade" model.  You lose money on the "razor" and make money on the "blades".
• Without the marketing, new re-design, and Kinect, who's to say how bad 360 sales would be?  Certainly not as good as they are, now.   It would probably be like the other consoles on the market--at a decrease for the year.
• It said in the article that M$'s increase was 1,148,500 consoles over a set period of time where it could have been 1,666,666 if they'd just taken their marketing money and bought 360's with it over the same period of time.  It's not like 360 sales are going to suddenly stop.  With the money spent marketing, I can only assume that more people are aware of 360's and Kinect and more consoles will sell in the future as a result.  Spending a large amount of money now to make more money later--that's how businesses work, right?  I guess Coca Cola shouldn't have advertised at the Superbowl.  Instead, they should have taken their millions of dollars and bought Coca Cola with it.  That way, sales would improve because they bought their own.......no.  That's fucking retarded.

Kinect sales are somewhat responsible for Xbox's surge during the holidays, but less than most people think.

People forget the obvious fact that Xbox 360 ALWAYS rises during the holiday season, as do the other consoles.

Plus, you've got Call of Duty: Black Ops, a new Halo game, and a much better value and better designed 360 model. So you have many people rebuying their consoles (I'm not too proud to say I'm one of those people, and I know a few others who did as well). Those are the main reasons for the 360's sales going up during the holidays.

The Kinect 360 boost is VASTLY overstated. Are people really going out and spending $300 to place another Dance game and a Wii Sports knockoff? I highly doubt it..

As I though, copy and pasting a flaming article is much easier and has more posts than when I did a well though article myself. What a shame.