MS is discounting Kinect on it's own store....
http://www.igniq.com/2010/1...
Maybe they will meet their target after all going in so early with the purchase incentives & discounting - normally don't get this kind of thing until the product is selling badly....
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Go discounts!!! I'll bet there are some good garage sale deals on Kinect too ;)
Hey wait a minute!!! Didn't some stores say they were like, selling out and that MS guy said to get them this week - now they're discounting them on MS official site?
Who can you trust these days huh? Not teh internetz I guess.
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If they're sold out, how will MS make their 5 mil target? Still over a month to go and MS have only confirmed sales of 1mil....
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Wow, someone necro'd the socomdick account heh. I guess he lost some bubbles on his other account....now who could that be??
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Frenchman 1 : "Mon dieu!!! Sacre Blue!!! Zut Alors!!!!!"
Frenchman 2 : "Yves, what iz zee probleme???"
Frenchmen 1 : "Zees carz 'ave only zee 1 REVERSE gear!!!!"
Frenchman 2 : "Quoi!!!!! Our tanks, they 'ave zee Cinq reverse gear!!!"
Just my little racist/xenphobic/stereotype joke - sorry!
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I note the guy KB is talking to is first in line at a GT5 midnight launch....
Although there don't seem to be many midnight launches planned 8)
Also look out for what I think is Jack Tretton chasing KB's car at the end :)
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You missed something.
GT5 is f****ckin awesome.
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Don't talk it down dudes. From what Amar has posted and what tidbits we've seen, GT5 is in no way deserving of an average or below score.
I don't think even the most anti-PS3 site could argue that GT5 is anything less than very good and most non-partisan commentators will agree it is exceptionally good.
I can make that prediction solely on the basis of GT5P which has a meta of around 80 with about 1 percent of the cars and tracks, worse physics, n...
^^ This is the real version - Amar is well known in the GT world (amongst others!). Based on what he's said the belief is that the other versions were also "release" editions too.
The other guys who got copies first don't seem to know as much about GT as Amar does so I think they weren't able to answer questions well.
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Those aren't millions young feller.
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It would be a good idea from a pure gaming perspective, but, with investors and analysts wanting MS to drop weak divisions including xbox, I think there'd be a lot of resistance to MS spending cash on such an acquisition.
It may be easier for them to just make it clear they're interested in hiring the staff and setting up a new office...
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Wow - signature edition eh? Tempting but just too much cash, when the game is the key component and less than half the price.
Still, good luck with winning the compo!
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I guess this bump is people buying Kinect bundles... So they're new Wii style casual gamers who'll apply the Wii-style attach rate of games.
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Who are you? Another alt-log for some vgc cretin or a different whiny contributor of guesstimate figures?
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^^ Pictures or it didn't happen.
Oh, and obvious troll is obvious lol.
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Indeed. Although if one source is to be believed this video is still not from the final version but is in fact a preview copy with less than full fidelity 8)
Still it seems real distributors are getting their shipments today so I guess we're on the final stretch !!
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Yeah that is annoying - particularly when Colin McCrae on PS2 had destructible barriers...
Still, that was a dedicated rally game and this has a wider focus.
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I think the damage will be there man - there's some controversy now about some of the vids "leaked" over the last day or so because the users involved have found their copies of the game include error dialogs when they access certain functions...
The error doesn't imply a lack of online access so there's a feeling those were either preview copies or misprints.
Either way, next week all will be revealed :)
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Really - MS are "vigourously" searching for a dev for PGR? Why don't MS just give it to one of their first party studios to develop?
I mean there's um...well...OK, I see your point.
Too bad about Bizzare - they made MSR & PGR (which was what caused me to buy a 360 all those years ago) and I think there was more that could have been done by them.
Seems like the Bond curse has killed another developer - even Rare couldn&#...
^^ So let me get this straight....
MS claims they have a product which will sell loads and will be difficult to get at the MSRP, anywhere.
Then, they decide to keep that product in stock on their own website, thus denying it to other retailers and then also discount it....
According to you, they'd so this to "increase sales" - increase sales of a product they said would be sold out at the MSRP and which, (due to drip fed supplie...