Sony serves up more Move stats, with spin

@Fallow Are you getting SingStar Dance? I just passed by GameStop and there was a huge line for it! I didn't expect that many people to get it. Heck i didn't even think it would have a midnight launch.

@johnjohn122

I don't think Move is a failure as in Sony is the failure to get it out there. You don't need 500 million dollars on an ad campaign but you do need some promotions. That one Subway promo just isn't going to cut it.

@johnjohn122

Wii gets obstructed fyi

@johnjohn122

Funny, the same thing happens when my friend plays Kinect in front of his coffee table...

@xchaoszerox

Bwahahahahahaha!!!!

It's funny because nobody else got it.

@Fallow.

Yeah, I bought it and the launch line-up was decent, although, I also kind of need some follow-up to keep me going. :|

That being said, Sorcery. Awesome. Heroes on the Move should also be a fun little game.

@xchaoszerox Are you sure that the line wasn't for Black Ops? That would make a lot more sense.

@lenandude That was the joke, yes.

@Fallow

i think most are waiting for the same thing. the hardcore support. and it's coming for sure so i'll certainly be purchasing then. Killzone 3, Resistance 3, even Heroes on the Move looks fun.

@Fallow
Have you forgotten about stuff like MAG, Killzone 3, socom 4, (LBP?), time crysis 4, resident evil 5, and some more, I dont know what you're talking about, on my standards move is the platform with the most hardcore motion games.

@pButter

And what's wrong with that? People who have children aren't gamers? I love my two girls and hope that they'll someday kick my ass in an FPS.

@InkSix

I was trying to synthesize the more or less whole feeling of the add, perhaps I choose the wrong words. I mean Move is great, owner right here, but these numbers are pretty bad to brag about them.

@MystileArmor - A lot of people apparently, but only in Europe. It's beginning to look even more convenient that the NPD reports don't come with hard numbers anymore, and a lack of actual sales data for Move makes me a bit worried about how it is actually doing.

I have this feeling that I'm going to wake up in a week or two and hear that Kinect has sold two or three million units. I don't have a horse in the Move/Kinect drama, but even I will be amazed when Grandma is doing the hustle on Dance Central come Christmas because of the marketing blitz.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze Maybe they should, instead of using the Microsoft tactic from two years ago. Which was blitz everyone with ad sheets.

Sony doesn't have an ounce of creativity in them as a corporation.

@Ellimem bwah hah hah hah.. Seriously thats the funniest thing I have ever read, you need to shut your ass and give your mouth a chance once in a while..

@Ellimem

Seriously, Sony isn't creative? That statement, with a particular focus on adds, flies in the face of every damn ad campaign they've ever done. Honestly, I think they let their add campaigns get just a little bit TOO creative. Everything from horrifying mechanical babies, dystopian fascism, five minute short films with full blown music numbers... I mean, c'mon? Lack of creativity? I'd be willing to bet that everyone has a personal favorite Sony campaign. Mine, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5bTaDUsxHQ


All that said, and I still haven't mentioned a little known fake VP of Everything.

@Haizeus And Sony stole every last one of those marketing ideas from . . . guess who . . . you guessed right if you guessed SEGA.

Maybe some of you are too young to remember Saturn and Dreamcast . . . or maybe, the marketing for either was usually so horrendous, that none of you even cared about Saturn or Dreamcast. But if you go down the history of SEGA ads for Dreamcast, but especially for Saturn, you will find a remarkable correlation between ads for those old consoles, and the ads Sony has "creatively" put together for PS3.

So sadly, even in marketing, Ellimem's original statement still rings too true, "Sony doesn't have an ounce of creativity in them as a corporation."

You know what I don't get. Why on Earth would Sony marketing in 2006 - 2009, copy SEGA's marketing from 1995 - 2000. I mean, as much as I love both the Saturn and the Dreamcast, it is not exactly like any of that marketing ever did SEGA any favors, who at the time was getting their ass handed to them by Sony. So why would anyone, use a proven losing marketing strategy, to market their own product? You really know you seriously have burned through your only two creative brain cells when you resort to using losing strategies to market your product with. Now they have shifted from using SEGA's former losing strategies to promote PS3, to using Microsoft's former losing strategies to promote Move.

Will the irony never cease? "This is bad comedy."

@Tachyonic Cargo
Hey, i'm the biggest SEGA fan out there; I have all the hardware including the CDX with carrying case.
But I gotta be honest, basically everything you said is wrong.

@Starcade

The thing is none of these stats say that the parents are using it.

First of all the 1 million figure they are touting is SHIPPED, not sold. Theres loads of stuff in there like "purchase intent" and "intend to purchase".

In theory i will be in that bracket as at some point i intend to purchase, but not going to be for a while.

This is amazing marketing really, as its a lot of smoke and mirrors and relying on people misreading the stats (which a lot of people and gaming sites are doing)

@JonahFalcon

yeah, i'm pretty sure they are. which is kind of sad...but that's sony for ya, the morose little underdog of this generation living in the shadows of its once mighty playstation brand. like that poor little fat kid running after his more fit, mobile friends on their huffy's, with jack of spades in the spokes, sippin our slushies in style, check out deez red teeth. we'll just keep on goin, looking back occasionally to get a good laugh. i love being thin.

@Liquidfingers.

Sony's definitely lost a lot of ground this generation but I kind of think of Microsoft as the fat kid. Their parents have too much money and they keep spending it on the kid, and you don't really like the kid, but you hang out with him because you get lots of stuff for free from their parents.

Lots of ways you can spin a fat kid story depending on which console you want to flame. :)

@Liquidfingers

Thin and transparent, apparently!

@JonahFalcon

Nintendo is the fat kid. All of the girls think he's cute and adorable but nobody is actually going to get serious with him.

@golfs4panzys Except the Xbox 360 has outsold the Wii in 2010.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

ho ho hooooo!!!! what a kick in the teeth. good one my nimble little assassin friend.

@JonahFalcon ...making it still about eleventy thousand million units behind in sales. But yes, your out-of-context statement is correct.

@CheetoVicks

Microsoft beat Sony in portable gaming? I would like to hear the reasoning behind that.

@golfs4panzys he doesn't have one, his whole post was bs.

@golfs4panzys

I really think both of you either misread my post or youre some kind of Sony fanboys?

Did you miss the whole story about tge Playstation Phone? Or the one about microsofy just releasing their own windows phone with xbox live and downloadable games the other day? Please read before you troll.

@CheetoVicks

You're right on the money. The Playstation brand is still very strong, but it still owes almost all of its strength to the success of the PS2. PS3 ended up being effective, but Sony seems to have trouble going toe-to-toe with Microsoft. Also, I have no vested interest in them, but can't help but think that a lot of their business decisions just seem bizarre. Who's at the helm? I'm assuming its not the same leadership as during the PS1/PS2 times.

@trickybuz93

Why do you care how many people bought them?

@A Sandwich

Sandwiches aren't good comedians. In fact, the only thing funny about a sandwich is the sandwich punch game.