[Official] Kinect - Over 4 million units sold!


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Who cares? MS can send review kits to whoever they want and whenever they want. Game sites aren't somehow special because they're game sites. Even if they get it a week before release they should just be happy they get one at all.

You realise not only this not a gaming site. But it's also the biggest gaming magazine (somewhat helped that it's owned by the biggest gaming retailer in the US - Gamestop). It's secured some huge exclusives in the last couple of months Batman: AC & Bioshock: Infinity to name two. So when they say 'we can't get our hands on software' it's a big deal.

In other news Kinect gets it's first FPS:

You realise not only this not a gaming site. But it's also the biggest gaming magazine (somewhat helped that it's owned by the biggest gaming retailer in the US - Gamestop). It's secured some huge exclusives in the last couple of months Batman: AC & Bioshock: Infinity to name two. So when they say 'we can't get our hands on software' it's a big deal.

In other news Kinect gets it's first FPS:

Cameraman on speed.

Who cares? MS can send review kits to whoever they want and whenever they want. Game sites aren't somehow special because they're game sites. Even if they get it a week before release they should just be happy they get one at all.

Indeed. It's obviously most likely in error, considering smaller sites are getting the review goods.

I also see that Best Buy is not taking any more pre-orders :(. They changed the button on the website from "pre-order" to "coming soon".

Amazon US is still taking them though. I just did mine with same day release delivery for 99 cents.:

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Maybe Best Buy didn't ask for enough units, I doubt demand could be that high yet unless Kinect is being advertised a lot in the US. Everywhere in the UK still has it in stock, I've already ordered the 250GB Kinect bundle from Shopto for ?290. Now I just have to wait until Nov 10 :(

Maybe Best Buy didn't ask for enough units, I doubt demand could be that high yet unless Kinect is being advertised a lot in the US. Everywhere in the UK still has it in stock, I've already ordered the 250GB Kinect bundle from Shopto for £290. Now I just have to wait until Nov 10 :(

All of the Kinect pre-order game cases on the shelves at my Best Buy ($5 each) are now gone. I think MS only has a limited number being made. Now with Amazon UK being sold out too, I see it's getting pretty thin.

In other news:

Microsoft opening up Kinect for indie developers soon

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Are mere two months back, there were no plans to let the "little guy" in on the Kinect movement, but in a sudden turn of events, Microsoft will be providing indie developers with the Kinect dev tools sooner rather than later.

Corporate vice president for Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer showed his excitement in a recent interview in which he said that "getting a broad set of developers supporting our platform at all levels is important to our success." That makes sense given the critical acclaim of some of the indie games on Xbox Live, let alone the latest Arcade games.

"When community will light up, we don't have a date lined up yet. It's not that I'm hiding it from you I just don't know. But getting a broad set of developers supporting our platform at all levels is important to our success. It's in our plan to make that happen," said Spencer. "It was one of the things that was exciting to me seeing the experiences at TGS that were a little bit out there. You start to feel like you can have people doing really different things, and the platform documentation is there to the point where people can go create a flaming baseball game while somebody else is doing a river rafting game."

He finished: "I'm trying to answer your question specifically about how far away we are. I think we're close…when you can simply drop the things in and go away and it works perfectly, then you're ready. And I think we're close given we're so close to shipping."

Xbox 360 owners will receive a Kinect-ready dashboard update between now and November 4th, the day Kinect launches in North America, swiftly followed by its European launch a few days later on November 10th.

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Very nice. I might give more indie titles a chance then.

All of the Kinect pre-order game cases on the shelves at my Best Buy ($5 each) are now gone. I think MS only has a limited number being made. Now with Amazon UK being sold out too, I see it's getting pretty thin.

Oh I didn't realise Amazon UK had run out. I still have trouble believing demand is that high though. Microsoft have already said they want to sell 3 million units in a couple of months. That implies that will have produced that many units, it may be that Microsoft has put most of the units into the Xbox bundles rather that have them separate.

Oh I didn't realise Amazon UK had run out. I still have trouble believing demand is that high though. Microsoft have already said they want to sell 3 million units in a couple of months. That implies that will have produced that many units, it may be that Microsoft has put most of the units into the Xbox bundles rather that have them separate.

Or, it's just all PR. For all we know, MS might have only produced like 10,000 units are are intentionally making the product scarce to improve demand (Wii as an example).

I think that when MS says they expect 3million to be sold that they've probably got a good chunk of data to back it up. Only time will tell of course but it should be interesting.

Wow so many places already stopping preorders? Kind of reminds me of the iPad earlier this year when everyone on the internet said no onne's gonna buy it and apple couldn't keep up with pre-order demands.

What recession?

You realise not only this not a gaming site. But it's also the biggest gaming magazine (somewhat helped that it's owned by the biggest gaming retailer in the US - Gamestop). It's secured some huge exclusives in the last couple of months Batman: AC & Bioshock: Infinity to name two. So when they say 'we can't get our hands on software' it's a big deal.

In other news Kinect gets it's first FPS:

That looks absolutely ****ing terrible, the launch titles better be nowhere near as shoddy or people have a $150 TV remote.

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