Even still, you don't think a 32 million selling peripheral pushed major hardware?? 

S model definitely helped, that's without a doubt but to credit that for the 360 resurgence without mentioning the record breaking device that brought in a whole new demographic is just nonsensical.

Yeah, it's more like the 1-2 punch of S and Kinect made the growth instead of just on their own. I'm fairly sure individually neither would have come close to the results they had together.

First month

Kingdom Hears - 345,000
Kingdom Hears II - 614,000
Kingdom Hearts III > 1,000,000

Yeah not to mention the top selling game on the platform is a game specifically for that peripheral so Kinect did have a significant impact it even sold as much as Wiimotion Plus which was far cheaper.

Wonderful in such a short amount of time 

Agreed! I notice he ignored my question, probably no valid rebuttal lol 

Wow.

You dodged the question. 


I'll give you another shot.  "If Wii Sports Resort sold significantly more than Kinect Adventures, then why didn't it have the same kind of effect on console sales?"

Wouldn't most of the blue ocean have a Wii at that point though as that's who the Wii was aimed at from the start while for 360 that was a new crowd for them.

A lot of people like FPS games like Halo and Call of Duty.  It also got some games earlier than PS3 like Minecraft.  Most importantly it was usually cheaper than the PS3.  You could get almost all the games the PS3 had but on a cheaper console.  Really in generation 7 Microsoft was doing everything right and Sony was doing everything wrong.  That was the way that people in USA saw it.  They didn't need Kinect it at all, and it also hurt them a ton in generation 8.

Really I'm surprised that people following video games considers Kinect a "craze".  It was so obviously a detriment to the XB1.  Also I live in the USA, and talk with lots of people in RL about video games, and Kinect was never a craze.  Wii?  Yes a craze.  I know lots of people who played Wii.  I also find people who will tell me how great Halo or Call of Duty are without me bringing it up.  There is a craze about these games and the XBox360 in general.  I still find people who like to play XBox360.  They don't like it for Kinect.  Kinect was never a craze.  If you want to know the cause for sales, it helps to actually talk to real people.  Kinect is not the reason.