That article is amazing Dante.
I've never seen a hardware launch with stacks of unsold boxes just sitting there. I would never thought Microsoft wouldn't have an automatic sellout on the launch night.
Last I read Move was:
US 1 million
Europe 1.5 million
Japan 500k I think
About 3 million Moves in the first month.
Microsoft couldn't even sell out the Kinetic hardware at their own launch event.
While Nintendo has sold 75 million Wiis and Sony has already sold 3 million Moves. Nintendo and Sony are most likely wondering how Microsoft could blow so much money for such poor results.
What's funny about this review is he complains about all the same problems of broken/flaky motion tracking and voice control that the real gaming sites are and handing out 6/10 range reviews.
The 500 million on PR and advertising seems to be working getting some non-gamers in the media to hand out inflated reviews, but with Kinetic not even selling out at its own launch event it doesn't look like all that PR money is translating into actual sales.
Not even close. Microsoft couldn't even sell out Kinetic at its own launch event.
What I am shocked by is the numerical scores don't seem to really matter for the majority of the reviews.
All the reviews are saying the same things over and over again:
> Need a very large completely open area to use
> Setup issues to get the thing working properly
> Lag problems
> Accuracy problems
> Lighting,clothing,skin color problems
> No reason to use it for menu/interface operation other th...
Brutal
""I have to put this bluntly: If you don't have at least 8 feet of unobstructed space"
Yes, just google images "gamers apartment living room"
There isn't a single house or apartment that has remotely enough space without having to move furniture or objects out of the way every time. And it sounds like it simply won't have enough space in just about every bedroom.
And as someone else stated, there is no num...
google images "gamers apartment living room"
I don't see a single living room that has remotely enough space without having to move furniture or objects out of the way each time you want to play.
This reminds me of the stupid comments that were made when the Xbox 360 was scratching and destroying discs and some fans would lash out at the poor person whose 60 dollar game just got destroyed by a hardware defect.
It would be one thing if it was just small random sites reporting all these major problems. But it is the major gaming sites that are the ones talking about huge problems.
So either Kinetic is flaky enough that it is only working some of the time for some sites. Or sites like the New York Times are just taking Microsoft's press/review kit and passing it off as a review.
7 feet back? That's crazy. I don't know anyone who has that type of space in their home or apartment without having to moving stuff out of the way every time.
"they said the shipment was very very small....
and thats why some retailers had to stop pre order. not because of demand"
To even compare it to the Wii hype and sales is absurd. It's been a long time but you couldn't walk into a store anywhere and pick up a Wii for like a year after launch.
Microsoft must have a tough choice on their hands:
1. Go with the trickle to retailers so they constantly get people talking ab...