Microsoft Sold Out of 360s Last Month
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I don't know how they get their numbers but I think retailers must have seriously over estimated demand for these products. I went out shopping a few days after Christmas and every store I went to (Best Buy, Target, Fred Meyer, Costco) had at least 22 Kinect bundles on the floor. Fred Meyer had over 30 Playstation Move bundles on the shelves. Maybe these products are just unpopular where I live but if the rest of the US has similar numbers there must be SEVERAL MILLION unsold units on store shelves.
Yeah they were completely sold out here in New Zealand as well, not that im that bothered because im not that interested in kinect (atleast until a must have game comes out for it) but yeah. I think the people crying about how motion controls are going to kill gaming are over reacting, games are still primarily purchased and played by gamers and microsoft knows that gamers arent very interested in kinect.
The reason why move hasn't done so well is because the ps3 is primarily owned by hardcore gamers and hardcore gamers didn't buy the wii for a reason ( I know there not the same but you cant deny the similarity's) the casual gamer who might be interested in move already bought a wii and to the naked casual eye they are the same thing so in short casual gamers already bought a wii and hardcore gamers don't care.
The reason why move hasn't done so well is because the ps3 is primarily owned by hardcore gamers and hardcore gamers didn't buy the wii for a reason ( I know there not the same but you cant deny the similarity's) the casual gamer who might be interested in move already bought a wii and to the naked casual eye they are the same thing so in short casual gamers already bought a wii and hardcore gamers don't care.
Well done Microsoft, very clever move with the relaunch of the console and the kinnect. Sorry Sony, a ripoff of the wii just isn't going to work.
The way this is worded doesn't make alot of sense. They certainly didn't and haven't sold out of them. Weather they sold as many that month as they built that month is possible. But stores around here were certainly not running low on 360's or Kinect setups. And they still aren't. So I don't know what tiny section of the market they are looking at but it completely ignores this city entirely.
I was actually wondering when sales figures for kinect and move would be released but the fact they sold out of consoles I never thought that would happen.
Kinect has been nothing but win for Microsoft and it has far more potential than the Move. Microsoft proves once again how much better it is at marketing than Sony. Really, outside of GT 5, what did Sony have going for it this Christmas? It's Christmas offerings were SHIT.
I can somewhat vouch for this statemnt seeing as how the 2 best buy stores in my area have been sold out for like forever.
Oh goody. Another blitz of sales fueled by their shoddy, RROD nonsense.
At least these new models don't have over 50% failure rate, right?
More topically, I've finally had a chance to try Kinect over break.
...surprise surprise. I don't like it.
The space requirement is something cannot afford presently, and even though it's still in the first generation of games, I seriously doubt I will ever find a title that doesn't require me to throw away my dignity (or my privacy, since Microsoft is taking pictures of me while I use it, and don't think someone won't abuse this down the line. License agreements are only as effective as they are enforced. It would be pretty difficult to prove in court if Microsoft were spying on you without a leak from the inside).
At least these new models don't have over 50% failure rate, right?
More topically, I've finally had a chance to try Kinect over break.
...surprise surprise. I don't like it.
The space requirement is something cannot afford presently, and even though it's still in the first generation of games, I seriously doubt I will ever find a title that doesn't require me to throw away my dignity (or my privacy, since Microsoft is taking pictures of me while I use it, and don't think someone won't abuse this down the line. License agreements are only as effective as they are enforced. It would be pretty difficult to prove in court if Microsoft were spying on you without a leak from the inside).
Kinect... FTW?
http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/worst-nintendo/
http://techland.time.com/2011/01/04/nintendo-ds-is-the-us-best-selling-console-of-all-time/
http://ds.nintendolife.com/news/2011/01/ds_dominated_2010_as_the_best_selling_console_in_the_uk
The bottom two links talk about the DS being the best selling console in the US and UK.
Nintendo, I believe the DS or Wii has out sold all other consoles.ForgottenPr0digy said:
http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/worst-nintendo/
http://techland.time.com/2011/01/04/nintendo-ds-is-the-us-best-selling-console-of-all-time/
http://ds.nintendolife.com/news/2011/01/ds_dominated_2010_as_the_best_selling_console_in_the_uk
The bottom two links talk about the DS being the best selling console in the US and UK.
Oooh! Now Sony will come out with something great to try and one-up Microsoft and Nintendo will bring out their secret product that will look as if the Gods blessed it. And then Microsoft will makes another great thing to combat that. And it keeps going and going and going...
And we all win because new stuff is being created and the industry grows!
OT: Okay people. I love my controller as much as the next person, but getting up and moving around isn't that much of a horrible prospect. It's not like controllers will go away with this stuff. People still play with their keyboard.
I mean...just because something came after another product doesn't mean it didn't try to improve what was already made at all.
And we all win because new stuff is being created and the industry grows!
OT: Okay people. I love my controller as much as the next person, but getting up and moving around isn't that much of a horrible prospect. It's not like controllers will go away with this stuff. People still play with their keyboard.
I mean...just because something came after another product doesn't mean it didn't try to improve what was already made at all.
We'll see when the numbers came in, but Move was a big time gamble and they appear to have lost it. What's the ownership percentage of move at the moment? And making you buy more controllers for multi-player? Move was a big fat cash grab while at least Kinect has some long-term potential, and kudos to Microsoft for making it open-source to allow indie devs to get creative with it.Mornelithe said:
In addition to Kinect, Microsoft led into the buying season with Halo: Reach and Fable III. Sony pushed off any big releases it had because it knew it was going to get crushed. However, it was a stupidly short-sighted marketing decision as now it's releasing all its big guns in the first half of the year. Little Big Planet 2, Killzone 3 and Motorstorm 3 are all coming out before June, and will see their sales suffer as a result.
The Christmas 2011 fight seems to be picking up steam though as PS3 is set to go with Uncharted 3 and Resistance 3 up against 360's Gears of War 3, Kingdoms and Forza 4.