It seems that the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops and the Xbox 360 Kinect has made little impact on Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii console sales this week, despite a huge increase in the number of people buying Microsoft’s movement based controller.
In fact the week before Kinect’s release the Nintendo Wii outsold the Xbox 360, this trend reversed when the Kinect launched. However even though they sold less units than the Xbox this week Nintendo managed to rack up sales equal to previous weeks. The PS3 enjoyed a similar trend by keeping sales of their console and new Playstation move device constant.
Do you think Sony’s sales will increase this week?
Note: The Playstation 3 slim bundle is available for £274.99
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GT5 is the most realistic driving sim for consoles, Forza 3 was ok but sucks when compared to GT5; only 3 Days to GO !!!! xD
GT5, no I don't think it will sell hardware, the damage is poor and the cockpit view is LIMITED to a certain amount of cars( less than Forza) and all the other cars are just cars bought over from the previous GT games.
WHY NO DEMO ?, WHY NO REVIEWS when it's so close to release?.
I think your headline is fairly misleading the 360 had plenty of impact on the PS3 and the Wii.
As for Move, Kinect sold about a million more in the same space of time, Move may be cheaper but people can see all it's hidden costs it has just like the Wii especially when you want to have 2 players it get's expensive, whereas Kinect does it all straight out of the box and comes with a full game...
@Des
The damage isn't poor when considering the fact that you should be avoid collisions and not being a pr1ck and crashing into everyone like a 5 year old. The cockpit view might be limited to a certain number of cars but have you seen the detail of the cars that have it, think how long it would've taken to put that amount of detail on every single one of the 1031 cars (more than double what Forza had, I'd just like to point out)...those cars are awesome that's why they've been brought over.
Do CoD games have demos? No, because PD know it WILL sell hardware just like Activision etc. know CoD WILL sell!!!!
@Yef
Your comment is the typical comment of an xbox fanboi. I do know that where I live everystore has a bunch of the xbox kinect in stock but none of them seem to have the move in stock. I do know why you say there are hidden costs because that woud like saying that when you buy a games console it has hidden costs because it only comes with one controler and in the past they even did not include a gsme so anybody with any intellegence would know that you would need buy two move or wiimotes to be able to play 2 players. I will tell what was hidden was the space requirment that kinect needs and also the fact that if you are using your xbox wirelessly you will have to buy a usb hub otherwise the kinect will have to be plugged into the front usb port which this only happens on the older 360's and one more thing that might be hidden is if you have the older 360 and you buy the kinect bundled in with the new 360s you will need to buy a power cord for kinect to be able to used on the older 360 but wait Microsoft does not even make a power cord for resale, the power cord is only available with the purchase of standalone kinect so when you want start talking about hidden fees please be aware that the 360 is not petfect and that all consoles do it because it is all about the money.
I agree with the hidden charges thing. My PS3 hidden charges in it's history included an extra controller (£30). My 360 hidden charges included extra controller (£30), battery charger (£15), 3 years on line (£120), initial super long Internet cable (£15), wifi connection (£60).
I certainly learnt my lesson this generation!
Can't wait for GT5!
Hidden costs for Kinect are ridiculous. Russ put it nicely. Kinect sales should be jugded a year from now, once the hype is over, so we can see how consistently it delivers. Same with Move. Adding a free game with Kinect doesnt make the price tag more reasonable. You're still going to have to buy more games on top of that, and how good are their games? With Move, you buy it (it costs as much as a game) and if you dont like it, oh well. But $150 Kinect!? You better make sure you love it!
To get Move to play PROPERLY as it should be played you need the navi controller as well as a game, two players also require two of these and another controller plus a game and of course the Move kit to start with.
No one can argue that Move is any cheaper than Kinect because anyone who has it and plays it properly with two players knows what I mean, I have one and the cost adds up to about the same as Kinect no doubt,
And as for space eh what ? I have Sports champions and I need around 8 feet to play that properly even the devs and the box tell you that.
Announced Move games I am not really impressed with so far it's all just ADDONS for old titles and next release in a series i.e Killzone"3" with Move addon.
Announced Kinect games include 5 core titles from the best Japenese legendry gamemakers, NOT ADDONS but BRAND NEW GAMES.
"Five new exclusive Kinect games coming from legendary Japanese creators"
http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/09/15/five-ne...
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Big whoop, the hidden cost of buying the Move wand with Nav twice is still cheaper than buying Kinect and the better peripheral. So let us not go there shall we...
Big whoop, the hidden cost of buying the Move wand with Nav twice is still cheaper than buying Kinect and the better peripheral. So let us not go there shall we…