I am fast, because that's my job.

Anyways...

Microsoft is desperately trying to sell to more demographics (hence staged Kinect demos with actors at their E3 conference), Sony just began to make some money back on the intially huge PS3 losses and Nintendo's stock has dropped to a five year low.

With the announcement that 10 million Kinects had been sold also came the news that 10 million standalone Kinect games had been sold, so essentially every person who owns Kinect bought one game for it over the course of six months. That's not flocking to a device, rather such a low tie ratio suggests consumer dissatisfaction.

Anyways...

Microsoft is desperately trying to sell to more demographics (hence staged Kinect demos with actors at their E3 conference), Sony just began to make some money back on the intially huge PS3 losses and Nintendo's stock has dropped to a five year low.

With the announcement that 10 million Kinects had been sold also came the news that 10 million standalone Kinect games had been sold, so essentially every person who owns Kinect bought one game for it over the course of six months. That's not flocking to a device, rather such a low tie ratio suggests consumer dissatisfaction.

"Flocking" to me implies that something is the choice of a majority, where the crowd goes. In other words the #1 pick at a given moment. If we assume that it is true that the Wii is very popular among families and younger audiences, then it's hard to come up with convincing proof that Kinect and the 360 really have eclipsed Nintendo in regards to that. Kinect really only was hot for a brief time, eight million units sold in two months I think. Fastest selling consumer electronic device, yes. Most expensive marketing campaign for a consumer electronic device, yes.

We'll see how Kinect fares once the software drought is finally over and by how much the tie ratio improves then.

Oh how so?