Kinect will sell more units than Wii at launch, says Greenberg

I don’t know if hes a fruitcake or a cup cake but I think hes past his shelf life.

Well, somehow this fruitcake must have some interesting preordering numbers on his desk, to spill out such a statement, same goes for cupCakeKudo …

Greenberg you crazy bastard.

I love the “it’ll blow away sales of iPad” cos thats relevant. News Flash “Sales of loafs of bread will blow away sales of donuts”

The Wii was particularly stock-strapped at launch, remember.

Really… just to make Greenberg and Tsunoda shut the f*** up, I hope Kinect will fail…
Seriously, if “this” is what is supposed to be the “future of gaming”, then I don’t know if I will want to keep playing the “new” video games…

Evolution and innovation are good… but good innovation, not this lagfest, not precise, so called “evolved” webcam

5# orakaa: Thats great now stfu and go back and play WoW on your PC.

@6

what was that about

Microsoft man bigs up his product.
Expects world to respond……

He’s right… but only because there was fuck all stock of the Wii available in the launch window (it could only do just over a million in November / December 2006 NPD).

@6: Greenberg, is that you ? XD

No fuckin way this is gonna happen and you don’t have to be called Pachter to predict this

Did you read my post Tallon? It’s really not that hard a target to beat. (Assuming they’re going to sell the 3m most people expect them to anyway)

Outselling the iPad on the other hand…

You guys did see that this was on Oprah and Ellen Degeneres shows…people are going to go batshit for this.

Got to remember that we are not the intended market for this….which is not gonna stop me getting it.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a man fast approaching forty dancing to Lady Gaga in his front room…with the curtains closed (could be doing worse things I suppose)

Motoion controls kiss my arse
Sony started this gimmick shit in 6th gen
IF motion controls got big then all the games 8th gen will be dumbed down to work on kinect,wii remote and Move
controller >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>kinect,wii remote and Move

@13
People ARE NOT going crazy for this!

Do you actually think that Ellen or Oprah(seriously Oprah),would just have Kinect on their show without a little green incentive?

Microsoft is smart by using these outlets for the PR and adding to their hype machine. They are trying to make you THINK people are absolutely going crazy for it. That is why they make all these outlandish claims. Brainwashing….Conditioning… whatever you want to call it.
Sad thing is…it works a lot of the time and people fall for it.

@15 Of course there was incentive…but it is still showing a very mainstream audience how easy the thing is to use and getting them to understand the actual concept behind it.

Add that to the Market research that was done recently and I think people who bought wii’s are gonna trade up.

Also Microsoft will actually give it some decent backing unlike Nintendo who have never really helped out third party publishers.

Also I think Dance Central is pretty much a killer app although i could be wrong.

@15: Some people call it marketing…

you call it tomato, I call it Tomato, same difference

@17, Dance Central does look the best out of the lineup so far

Also Microsoft have hardly got the exclusive rights to this sort of marketing.

@19,

No they don’t, but they do it the best

Look, all I’m saying is just b/c it’s hyped to death doesn’t mean it’s what it’s cracked up to be

…and usually it is just the opposite, things hardly ever live up to the hype.

Lebron James, Playstation Plus, Twilight, FlashForward, The Event, oh man the list goes on and on

@Pshycotext: sure…read it…But it still won’t happen imo.

Over here in the Netherlands there is absolutely no hype. When the Wii was launched..there were big lines at the stores and everyone ( even the people who don’t play games ) was talking about it.

I don’t see this happen with Kinect.

I think kinect is going to dominate the American dollar in its first couple months. As an American I know how this works. Oprah and ellen are possibly the biggest names to the casual american especially the stay at home moms. Just like if oprah backs a book it sells off the shelves if she certifies this console it will fly of the shelves. The average american just does not think for themselves. And, it shows when you ask them why did they buy this line of clothes or why did you buy this console.

It generally always boils down to what someone else told them as opposed to them doing their own research.

@21: Possibly not in individual countries, but on the whole (mostly by virtue of the US it should).

“Kinnect will be bigger than Jesus”

That would have been a more ballsy statement. Ripping off Lennon, but still.