Microsoft Nearly Doubles Record-Breaking Kinect Sales Forecast

[Buizel91]

I'd call "bullshit" but I was talking to a friend of mine who worked at the local Gamestop, and apparently they have roughly 60 units just for pre-orders, compared to the 15 they had for Move. I was actually pretty surprised by this.

All the release titles look like complete shovelware, but there are a couple interesting games coming out eventually that look interesting. I'm probably still not gonna get one, but who knows, maybe it will be awesome.

As i stated, they will have all this "shovleware" because they want to see if it's a success, no point in wasting money on Mainstream titles when they can get cheapo ones easily. Microsoft knows this will either be a huge fail, or an epic success so will not waste a penny on mainstream titles to Kinect yet.

By the way, who thinks that if this is a success, Master Chief will show up on this thing?

Who doesn't want to air HI5 an elite and kill him?

 

[Buizel91]

I can't wait for everybody to start eating crow when this thing hits. You guys are underestimating how much little kids will love this and how much parents will dig flipping through the menus with a wave of the hand. Your also not thinking of the future possibilities. Imagine being able to pull up a keyboard(on screen) and type with your hand in mid air. Imagine being able to control your character with simple hand gestures rather than button presses. We were all so focused on huge dumb body movements we never thought maybe in the future the technology will detect precise finger movement. Don't you see? I move my index finger slightly to the right and my dude moves right. I move my index finger forward toward the camera and my dude jumps. Things like that. Why would I need a controller when all I need is my hand?

MS has changed the game with this, mark my words. This won't be just limited to Xbox this will be everywhere in a few years and MS is the one who started it all. This is one small step forward to holodecks. Of course we still have to figure out solid light but whatever.

This guy speaks sense! HI5!

 

[Buizel91]

Damn it! hate my internet D: double post!

 

[westhamhaz]

How? just how? I don't know anyone getting it, ..sigh oh well

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

They do that anyway, but personally I'd rather have another generation of mindless shooters than another generation of useless mini-game compilations. At least when on the shooter route, you get your occasional diamond in the rough like Mass Effect. Mario Party, on the other hand, stopped being fun three console generations ago. Not to mention nothing new has ever come from it...just Mario Party sequels.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Kinect-Hardcore-Games

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I can't wait for everybody to start eating crow when this thing hits. You guys are underestimating how much little kids will love this and how much parents will dig flipping through the menus with a wave of the hand. Your also not thinking of the future possibilities. Imagine being able to pull up a keyboard(on screen) and type with your hand in mid air. Imagine being able to control your character with simple hand gestures rather than button presses. We were all so focused on huge dumb body movements we never thought maybe in the future the technology will detect precise finger movement. Don't you see? I move my index finger slightly to the right and my dude moves right. I move my index finger forward toward the camera and my dude jumps. Things like that. Why would I need a controller when all I need is my hand?

MS has changed the game with this, mark my words. This won't be just limited to Xbox this will be everywhere in a few years and MS is the one who started it all. This is one small step forward to holodecks. Of course we still have to figure out solid light but whatever.

I agree completely with this guy.

Holodecks for the win!

 

[ModsDeleteThisAccountPlease]

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Thanks for ruining gaming forever, consoles. Hope everybody likes shovelware.

...It's optional, if you don't want it fair enough. it has not ruined gaming, in fact, it's opened new doors in gaming. and hell if it goes any further, it can create jobs, which the UK/America (Acctualy probably just the UK) desperately needs.

If you think this has ruined Console gaming you have a very narrow mind.

If you want to blame anyone Blame Nintendo. if it weren't for the Wii i doubt this would have happened.

I blame all three console developers. After all, Microsoft and Sony didn't have to call the Wii shit and then jump on the motion control bandwagon five years later, but they did.

At least Microsoft aren't Copying completely, they took it and changed it, unlike *Cough* Sony *Cough*

Don't get me wrong, i am sceptical about it, and with the all the hate towards it, it could well fail, but saying it will fail when it hasn't coming out is like saying Urgh! i hate eggs, when in fact you may acctualy like them

Old saying, "Never judge a book, by it's cover"

I sense an elitist bastard....

Anyways, I'm not buying it, but it seems interesting.
It will sell well regardless.

AN-It's been ages since I commented.

 

[Dendio]

I really dont see the kinect having huge sales at launch. I think its a little ahead of its time in its ambitions. The kinect "human controller" aspect is cool, but todays technology gives it too many limitations. Despite the all or nothing attitude microsoft is generating, they are playing it safe by distributing the new hardware as an extra part to an already established video gaming system. Dedicating an entire system to the "human controller" idea would be way more gutsy. That said the safe way is probably the smarter way.

Nintendo took the big gamble by dedicating their next gen console to the motion control feature and its paid off. Nintendo has all the mascots and family friendly history to attract the casual and young base. For the kinect to sell up to microsofts ambitions they will need to draw the casual base. Some will say that Microsoft needs an attraction that will beat out Mario, Pokemon and many other popular Nintendo franchises, however I dont see them being successful that way.

The Kinect needs to make the causual base feel like the Wii is obsolete, just not in the way most hardcore gamers would measure console viability. Casuals don't care about processing power or screen resolution. Microsoft needs to dumb down the superiority message with simple and obvious comparisons. For example: If the Kinect lets you play the game with your entire body, who cares about waving an arm?

 

[Buizel91]

They do that anyway, but personally I'd rather have another generation of mindless shooters than another generation of useless mini-game compilations. At least when on the shooter route, you get your occasional diamond in the rough like Mass Effect. Mario Party, on the other hand, stopped being fun three console generations ago. Not to mention nothing new has ever come from it...just Mario Party sequels.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Kinect-Hardcore-Games

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I can't wait for everybody to start eating crow when this thing hits. You guys are underestimating how much little kids will love this and how much parents will dig flipping through the menus with a wave of the hand. Your also not thinking of the future possibilities. Imagine being able to pull up a keyboard(on screen) and type with your hand in mid air. Imagine being able to control your character with simple hand gestures rather than button presses. We were all so focused on huge dumb body movements we never thought maybe in the future the technology will detect precise finger movement. Don't you see? I move my index finger slightly to the right and my dude moves right. I move my index finger forward toward the camera and my dude jumps. Things like that. Why would I need a controller when all I need is my hand?

MS has changed the game with this, mark my words. This won't be just limited to Xbox this will be everywhere in a few years and MS is the one who started it all. This is one small step forward to holodecks. Of course we still have to figure out solid light but whatever.

I agree completely with this guy.

Holodecks for the win!

I can see Harry potter being EXTREMELY fun on this...although i dare to think what people would use as the wand...

Penis flailing drunks here we come.

 

[Buizel91]

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Thanks for ruining gaming forever, consoles. Hope everybody likes shovelware.

...It's optional, if you don't want it fair enough. it has not ruined gaming, in fact, it's opened new doors in gaming. and hell if it goes any further, it can create jobs, which the UK/America (Acctualy probably just the UK) desperately needs.

If you think this has ruined Console gaming you have a very narrow mind.

If you want to blame anyone Blame Nintendo. if it weren't for the Wii i doubt this would have happened.

I blame all three console developers. After all, Microsoft and Sony didn't have to call the Wii shit and then jump on the motion control bandwagon five years later, but they did.

At least Microsoft aren't Copying completely, they took it and changed it, unlike *Cough* Sony *Cough*

Don't get me wrong, i am sceptical about it, and with the all the hate towards it, it could well fail, but saying it will fail when it hasn't coming out is like saying Urgh! i hate eggs, when in fact you may acctualy like them

Old saying, "Never judge a book, by it's cover"

I sense an elitist bastard....

Anyways, I'm not buying it, but it seems interesting.
It will sell well regardless.

AN-It's been ages since I commented.

Because i mentioned Sony? Ohh don't get me wrong, Sony have a decent line of games, and I'm planning on getting one soon. but copying Wii with the Motion controllers? just stupid.

 

[Jake Martinez]

The bigger they talk up Kinect, the more I believe that the whole project is screwed. Good luck finding rich casual gamers with 360s who aren't afraid of early adoption. I won't complain if it works, but I'd be surprised.

Rich? It costs 150 dollars. If you can't afford that working at burger king, then you just need to forgo buying the spliffs for a week or two. I certainly wouldn't qualify it as needing to be "rich" in order to afford one.

 

[ninja51]

I look forward to the crushing sales disapointment. They actually disabled auto starting a disk to show me the welcome kinect screen. Its bullshit, no matter if I change the system settings, they are really pushing lame ass kinect

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Thanks for ruining gaming forever, consoles. Hope everybody likes shovelware.

Do you have any idea how much shovel-ware exists for PC? Seriously?

Anyway, I hope it doesn't do this well, but remember people, if it flops then there's a chance a large part of the gaming industry could come crashing down. I mean, probably not, but there's a chance.

Considering that all consoles are just simplified computers, I feel safe in saying that there has been more shovelware released on consoles as a whole group than on the PC. The Wii alone probably accounts for half of that.

Considering that it's more expensive to develop for consoles, I highly doubt that. The Wii has lots of shovel-ware, admittedly, but let's look at the PS3. It (according to Wikipedia) has 649 games, including some un-released ones. How much of that is shovel-ware? Honestly?

Sure, older consoles had larger amounts of games (and therefore a higher percentage of shovel-ware), but so did the PC back then. And think about how PC gaming works, anyone with RPG maker can make something resembling a game, IE shovel-ware.

 

[Bucht]

I haven't got any intentions on buying the PS Move so far.
But I've been thinking about getting a Kinect (one day, when it's cheap and when decent games are getting announced for it).

What I'm trying to say is: I think they will sell more copies than the Move, but it won't be "over million for this year".

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Thanks for ruining gaming forever, consoles. Hope everybody likes shovelware.

...It's optional, if you don't want it fair enough. it has not ruined gaming, in fact, it's opened new doors in gaming. and hell if it goes any further, it can create jobs, which the UK/America (Acctualy probably just the UK) desperately needs.

If you think this has ruined Console gaming you have a very narrow mind.

If you want to blame anyone Blame Nintendo. if it weren't for the Wii i doubt this would have happened.

I blame all three console developers. After all, Microsoft and Sony didn't have to call the Wii shit and then jump on the motion control bandwagon five years later, but they did.

At least Microsoft aren't Copying completely, they took it and changed it, unlike *Cough* Sony *Cough*

Never seen an Eyetoy then?

 

[shemoanscazrex3]

The only trouble I have with this is the fact that you have to already have a 360 to buy it. Then not only that but 150 bucks to buy it plus a game.

 

[BenzSmoke]

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How was the Wii bad for the industry?
It sold over 30 million units in the USA alone, and introduced a previously untapped group to videogames.
How is the gaming industry making money a bad thing?

Shovelware, that's how. Nintendo isn't actually spending any of that money on creating new or innovative games. On the Wii, you've got remakes of all the classics (Zelda, Mario, Metroid), and a whole lot of shovelware for the casual crowd. How is that moving the industry forward?

It's like the whole idea was to reset the industry. Attract a whole new audience and start over with crap games. Then when that new audience demands more, THAT'S when you start making decent games again. Meanwhile, those of us who started in the N64 era or further back are left out in the cold. Pissed off from the start of this bullshit.

Touche. You make a good point.

But if Kinect tanks, Microsoft won't be green lighting new and innovative games.
They would only green light games that they believe would make money.
That would mean another era of mindless shooters.

They do that anyway, but personally I'd rather have another generation of mindless shooters than another generation of useless mini-game compilations. At least when on the shooter route, you get your occasional diamond in the rough like Mass Effect. Mario Party, on the other hand, stopped being fun three console generations ago. Not to mention nothing new has ever come from it...just Mario Party sequels.

I'll admit, an era of shooters does sound more appealing than an era of crappy mini-games.

But I still don't think that Kinect is that bad.
So what if it's host to mini-game collections and remakes? I don't see that effecting the creation of hardcore games for the 360 proper. Because, unlike the Wii, the 360 can focus on hardcore games while Kinect can shovel all the crap.
Besides, I don't see Kinect tanking and money/jobs being lost as a step forward for Microsoft and the industry as a whole.

Who knows, maybe Kinect could offer more innovation if coupled with a traditional controller. Take a look at Fable 3 for example. If Peter Mollenux is to be believed, then Kinect would allow players to interact with the game world in new and amazing ways while still being a controller based game. Perhaps it could be a good thing, if developers see it as an addition to the console and a tool for innovation and immersion, instead of a means to peddle useless remakes and gimmicky one-trick ponies.

 

[Souplex]

The way it appears in the hot threads/latest threads section it says "Microsoft nearly doubles Kinect Sales". That's misleading.