Xbox man Don Mattrick calls the 10 days worth of sales “a great start to the holiday season”. The Xbox 360 maker hopes to sell five million of the things by the end of the year, with launches in Japan and Australia to come later this month.
Sony said last month that its motion-controller add-on for the PlayStation 3 had shipped a million units since its launch on September 15.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 10:27 AMIs there some way I can place a bet on Kinect not reaching its end of year milestone?
Mr Waffle
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 10:47 AM3 more days :(
brent3000
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM3 more? I thought it came out on Thursday?
Mr Waffle
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 3:05 PMWell, yeah. But who knows what time on Thursday. Might be 9am, might be 5pm. They made me wait till 5:30pm on launch day to get GH:WT from JB when it came out…
706-2
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 10:48 AMNotice the difference between ‘sold’ and ‘shipped’. This does actually kind of surprise me though, I felt the Move looked a little better in terms of actual gaming compared to the Kinect. As many people have said maybe when we get some more interesting games on the Kinect it could be better but at the moment the Move is more tempting.
I wonder if this is just because the Kinect was marketed better, or if the Xbox 360 is more popular and people are more likely to buy the peripheral for the console they have.
Bukake Kane
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 11:31 AMI think it also has to do with more varied and casual software available with Kinect that has currently made it the more appealing of the two.
Sports Champions was pretty much the strongest title out of the initial shoveware. and a few updated titles in Resident Evil Gold and Heavy Rain.
Braaains
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 12:35 PMI’d like to know what the difference is in marketing budgets for the two of them. I’d be surprised if Sony is even spending 10% of Microsoft’s $500m.
It’d also be interesting to come back in 6 months and see if these Moves and Kinects are gathing as much dust as most Wii’s I’ve seen.
Peter Richards
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 11:35 AMI find this a little hard to believe, I wonder where the ‘sales’ figures are from, and whether it includes all the ones they are giving away.
James Mac
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 11:56 AMI’d imagine this is accurate.
It’s really only launched in the US and Europe, which is where MS is strong.
I’d like a breakdown of how many were sold with new consoles… as that would tell if they’re new customers or not.
The use of the word “sold” is, I think, a subtle jab at Sony.
Reaver
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 3:58 PMAlong with the words “units” as Sony considered the playstation eye as a unit, the wand a unit and the nunchuck thingy a unit.