With Black Friday – the busiest shopping day of the year – just around the calendar-shaped corner, Microsoft must expect to move an awful lot of Kinect units if it hopes to hit 5 million in just under seven weeks.
Kinect moves 1m units in first 10 days; 'on track' to hit goal of 5m this year
by Christopher Grant 
on Nov 15th 2010 6:20PM
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With Black Friday – the busiest shopping day of the year – just around the calendar-shaped corner, Microsoft must expect to move an awful lot of Kinect units if it hopes to hit 5 million in just under seven weeks.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:22PM Raffi256 said
Still has the asia launch in a couple days.
Posted: Nov 16th 2010 2:22AM RealGamer22 said
@Raffi256
To all the idiots that can't add up.
Move had sold 2.5m units within it's first 30 days.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/oct/22/games-sony
It's around 4m units by now.
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To all the idiots that can't add up.
Move had sold 2.5m units within it's first 30 days.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/oct/22/games-sony
It's around 4m units by now.
Posted: Nov 16th 2010 8:07AM McDuckScrooged said
@johnjohn122 no a move sale is the sale of just the move controller, not the camera not anything else, just the controller.
Come this time next year, I bet there will be a huge bunch of very disappointed Kinect owners..
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Come this time next year, I bet there will be a huge bunch of very disappointed Kinect owners..
Posted: Nov 16th 2010 8:35AM siliconAnarchy said
@RealGamer22
yea but some games require 2 wands per player. the numbers are skewed. lets assume that 2 units per household(its an average, some consumers will only buy one and some will buy four) so divide those figures by two and thats the real amount of households that may potentially buy games for it. this is a business kids and the only reason sony wants these to sell is to sell games later on and from the looks of it MUCH later. Sony's sales figures are always smoke and mirrors. Just like when they announced there were 17 million PSN users which included PSP, PS3, and web based registrations.
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yea but some games require 2 wands per player. the numbers are skewed. lets assume that 2 units per household(its an average, some consumers will only buy one and some will buy four) so divide those figures by two and thats the real amount of households that may potentially buy games for it. this is a business kids and the only reason sony wants these to sell is to sell games later on and from the looks of it MUCH later. Sony's sales figures are always smoke and mirrors. Just like when they announced there were 17 million PSN users which included PSP, PS3, and web based registrations.
Posted: Nov 16th 2010 9:25AM xXHexagonXx said
@RealGamer22 Shipped and Sold are not the same thing.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2010 10:15AM McDuckScrooged said
@siliconAnarchy what does it matter how many households ?
Also just to clarify if a controller is sold to a retailer its still sold. Microsoft always counts units shipped as units sold, it even does this with xbox360 consoles. Did Microsoft specify who the controller was sold to ?
If they are both gathering dust in some cupboard this time next year, then they have both failed, if they are being usedin games and have loads of good games (note shovel ware does not count) developed or being developed for them then they are a success..
Thats what I a consider a success anyway.. Its about what I can play with it in the next year, not about how many units it sold to casual gamers and how many mothers buy into the hype..
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Also just to clarify if a controller is sold to a retailer its still sold. Microsoft always counts units shipped as units sold, it even does this with xbox360 consoles. Did Microsoft specify who the controller was sold to ?
If they are both gathering dust in some cupboard this time next year, then they have both failed, if they are being usedin games and have loads of good games (note shovel ware does not count) developed or being developed for them then they are a success..
Thats what I a consider a success anyway.. Its about what I can play with it in the next year, not about how many units it sold to casual gamers and how many mothers buy into the hype..
Posted: Nov 16th 2010 12:34PM JewldPnthr said
@Raffi256 I work in the electronics department of a major retailer. I was there on launch day for Move and watched as they sat on the shelf until about 2 weeks later when someone finally bought one. I can confirm that at my store, all the Move components (including the 320GB system) are in stock and in my back room.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2010 6:15PM mmmfishtacos said
@Ordeith engadget didn't back any thing up, find real prof that it counts as each part sold individually. Engadget should be ashamed of that post to begin with.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:23PM Riley Freeman said
Am i surprised? No. Am i part of that "1Mil" No. Will i be? No.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:42PM Mouthsmasher said
@Riley Freeman; well DUH you won't be part of the 1 million, it already happened.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 9:29PM imadogg said
I guess no one got the reference....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYuqBgpxt0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYuqBgpxt0
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:24PM vader1991 said
wanna move one to my house micro?
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:24PM shopping bags said
good for Microsoft incoming hatred in 3...2...1..
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:25PM Ryuk said
I may not be a fan of Kinect but hey, at least they knew what they were doing.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:27PM mmmfishtacos said
So it's selling on par with move, 2.5 million world wide was the last number i came across. Not bad, but still hard to see 5 million. We'll see.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:44PM mmmfishtacos said
@Raffi256 No 1.5 mill in the first month with was a week short, from what i can remember, move only been out for 8 weeks now. People buying two isn't has high as you think.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:59PM mmmfishtacos said
the only place it isn't out right now is Asia. and you know it wont move many there.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:28PM mmmfishtacos said
@kcswanko http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/21/sony-moves-1-million-moves-in-america/ this article was post just 4 weeks after launch, at the time it was 1 mill in the US and 1.5 in Europe. So if it's just over 1 mill in ten days, they are selling about even. 1,000,000/10= 100,000 a day, 2,500,000/30= 83,333 a day, Way more, don't really think so. Well see after a full month, really too hard to tell now.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:37PM mmmfishtacos said
@hkfooie okay but the demand has to be there from the retailers to buy that many in the first place, it's not like they keep buying them to look pretty on the shelf.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:39PM BananaBoat said
@Raffi256 - I could be going senile, but didn't move *ship* one million units worldwide, and not sell? There is quite a difference, especially when a move wand, a move camera, and a move controller could be counted as three moves for all we know.
I can't say that I'm pleased by this news, but I saw it coming the day I saw a Move commercial (the only one I've seen) with my friends, and some of them groaned that it was "just a wii ripoff", while they see Kinect as a minority-report-esque uber device. Marketing works; I don't know what else to say.
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I can't say that I'm pleased by this news, but I saw it coming the day I saw a Move commercial (the only one I've seen) with my friends, and some of them groaned that it was "just a wii ripoff", while they see Kinect as a minority-report-esque uber device. Marketing works; I don't know what else to say.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:41PM mmmfishtacos said
@sindbad Um reading does wonders, note the post buy joystiq says 500,000 "more" than in the us.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:54PM mmmfishtacos said
@sindbad It's only the marketing behind it, that's why. It's going to be the tickle me Elmo of 2010/11. Both are doing well for what they are.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:57PM mmmfishtacos said
@mmmfishtacos Fanboys out in force with the down votes today. Not like im being rude about it.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:58PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said
@mmmfishtacos
So it looks like both Move and Kinect are successful. Good for their respective companies, indeed. :)
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So it looks like both Move and Kinect are successful. Good for their respective companies, indeed. :)
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 8:03PM This Little Man Says His Name Is said
@mmmfishtacos
It only launches in other countries this week, so the 1m is still US only.
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It only launches in other countries this week, so the 1m is still US only.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 8:07PM mmmfishtacos said
@This Little Man Says His Name Is no it's not, look around on other sites, it includes Europe, Joystiq doesn't say one way or the other, and maybe they should add that in some where to keep confusion down, cause when you say US only it dose make it appear to sell better, but that's not the case.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 10:47PM BananaBoat said
@BananaBoat - I was wrong. Move shipped one million in the US (after a few weeks I guess). That wasn't counting Europe or Asia.
It's impossible to compare the two figures without the proper data, so I'm just going to stop now.
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It's impossible to compare the two figures without the proper data, so I'm just going to stop now.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:30PM chronicles32 said
I really believe in microsoft. These things have been selling likee pancakes. Ive been looking for one since it launched and i cant find one at any retailer. I could only find the 360 bundle with the kinect but not the kinect itself. Theres a lot of demos in stores and people always are wowed. The booth is always over crowded and the demonstrator says there getting a shipment every week trying to satisfy the high demand. This is every retailer ive gone from walmart to best buy to frys electronics. This technology is just amazing
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:45PM The Aquacharger said
@chronicles32
Really? I was just at Bestbuy and they were a bit over-stocked I might add. And like one person played Kinect. He seemed impressed at first then he quickly lost it.
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Really? I was just at Bestbuy and they were a bit over-stocked I might add. And like one person played Kinect. He seemed impressed at first then he quickly lost it.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:47PM mmmfishtacos said
@chronicles32 It's really not that amazing at all. at least not to me. Anyway, give me 200 and i'll run down a get you one right now.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 7:07PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said
@chronicles32
Come on down to the two Wal-Marts near me.
Both have Kinect units and Kinect Bundles out the wazoo.
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Come on down to the two Wal-Marts near me.
Both have Kinect units and Kinect Bundles out the wazoo.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:33PM Jacksons said
Not my kind of thing, but congrats to them.
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:34PM chicho13420 said
Is that counting the one's being giving away for free from burger king?
Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:38PM dylanspronck said
@chicho13420 And Oprah... And Ellen... And Jimmy Fallon
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 6:40PM Alexisonfire said
@chicho13420
Goddamnit. I was going to make that joke!
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Goddamnit. I was going to make that joke!
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