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Seece on 15 August 2011
thx1139 said:
RolStoppable said:
thx1139 said:
RolStoppable said:

Do you really need five months to come up with a good excuse?

I suspect that VGC numbers are off.  After all nearly 3 million 360s have sold in the last 5 months.  Mean to tell me that only 430K of those were sold with Kinect and that doesnt even account for standalone Kinect units.  We know that accessory sales are more difficult to track.

If Kinect was still doing hot, then Microsoft would have bragged about it or at least noted it in their financial results.

Well Gamasutra article about July NPD states that 52% of Xbox 360s sold since Kinect launch are Kinect bundles. I assume this is just USA. So since April 1,806,000 360s sold in NA.  I suspect that the 430K number isnt accurate.

Yeah that's since launch though, it could have been 60% in December which is a high amount that time of year, which means it could have done 40% over last few months (rough example)

Still through I agree we may have it slightly lower than what it's doing, it's just surpassed 10.4 mill sold and it shipped that end of March which was over 4 and a half months ago. Doesn't help MS don't release figures as often anymore (unsurprising) they will come January when it's selling like hot cakes again.



 

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welshbloke on 16 August 2011

Some decent stuff to look forward too. The bing, skype and cloud integration look cool and will look forward to that.

So I have a mango and a dashboard coming my way in September Microsoft are busy little bees.



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thx1139 on 16 August 2011
Seece said:
thx1139 said:
RolStoppable said:
thx1139 said:
RolStoppable said:

Do you really need five months to come up with a good excuse?

I suspect that VGC numbers are off.  After all nearly 3 million 360s have sold in the last 5 months.  Mean to tell me that only 430K of those were sold with Kinect and that doesnt even account for standalone Kinect units.  We know that accessory sales are more difficult to track.

If Kinect was still doing hot, then Microsoft would have bragged about it or at least noted it in their financial results.

Well Gamasutra article about July NPD states that 52% of Xbox 360s sold since Kinect launch are Kinect bundles. I assume this is just USA. So since April 1,806,000 360s sold in NA.  I suspect that the 430K number isnt accurate.

Yeah that's since launch though, it could have been 60% in December which is a high amount that time of year, which means it could have done 40% over last few months (rough example)

Still through I agree we may have it slightly lower than what it's doing, it's just surpassed 10.4 mill sold and it shipped that end of March which was over 4 and a half months ago. Doesn't help MS don't release figures as often anymore (unsurprising) they will come January when it's selling like hot cakes again.

Since this is being reported. I believe that the data is more focused on the recent sales numbers rather than launch focused.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

carlosmp on 16 August 2011

I think Kinect needs more "commercial" titles like Dance Central, but until October, nothing.