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Nsanity on 01 April 2011

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In an interview with the French website UnHomme, marketing director of the consumer division of Microsoft France, Christian Mills, has said that Kinect sold over 300.000 units in France to date. He also outlines the current top 4 of Kinect games sold in France.

Xbox Kinect sales in France

At the end of December, 300.000 Kinect Sensors were sold in France. In the last couple of months an additional 20.000 have been added to that total. In Christian’s view, Kinect opens up a whole lot of possibilities with a new type of gaming audience: family, feminine and kids.

He also explains that he sees that Kinect’s major goals has been achieved, based on the top 4 of Kinect games in France:

  1. Kinect Sports
  2. Dance Central
  3. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved
  4. Kinectimals

These sales numbers are especially impressive given the fact that France is, traditionally, a loyal Playstation nation.

http://123kinect.com/xbox-kinect-sensor-sales-france/



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cory.ok on 01 April 2011

we know kinect strategy now also family, feminine and kids. nice. sounds like a winner



Mr Puggsly on 01 April 2011
cory.ok said:

we know kinect strategy now also family, feminine and kids. nice. sounds like a winner

We know now? Are you familiar with the Kinect's library? Did you think they were trying to appeal to core gamers with party and exercise games? And it's indeed a winner.



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NotStan on 01 April 2011

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Anyone got Move numbers for France to see how they stack up? Would be an interesting comparison considering how pro-PS3 France is.



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Zlejedi on 01 April 2011

300k till 31st Dec and 20k for first 9-11 weeks of 2011 ?



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Zappykins on 01 April 2011

I would imagine that sales will pick up after they release the French Language Update.  As I understand it's region locked so you can't talk to it yet.

Going, “Xbox Pause” “Xbox arrêter « will make it more popular.  Also, can you get Zune Movies/Music in Europe?



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

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welshbloke on 01 April 2011

I cannot remember off the top of my head but does Kinect support French, I do seem recall non.

 



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Zappykins on 05 April 2011

Kinect voice recognicion does not support most of Europe yet.  It is supposed to add German, French, European Spanish, etc. (I think 7 other langaues) with an update this spring.

It looks like France will get French support for Kinect in April:

http://123kinect.com/xbox-kinect-update-scheduled-for-april-2011/

I sort of suprized they didn't wait to launch it till they had the langague support.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

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yo_john117 on 06 April 2011

Wow 20k from Jan-Mar is just abysmal :-/



NotStan on 06 April 2011
yo_john117 said:

Wow 20k from Jan-Mar is just abysmal :-/

There's only that many french people that can tolerate speaking English, the new language packs should see a little bump in sales, well no guarantee either, but I'd think multilanguage support will be popular with Europe and anywhere outside of US.



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