[Jtyettis]

Ballmer just announced. Discuss.


Edit:


8 Million Kinect-60 Days

360 50 Million+ 5 years

Xbox Live 30 Million

Edit 2:

Bloomberg;

Microsoft has clarified to me that the 8 million KInect number is sell in, or how many were shipped to retailers. Not sell thru. Forecast for Kinect was 5 mln units sold thru to customers. Microsoft says it `far surpassed' the 5 mln sell thru forecast but no exact # Going forward, Microsoft says it will return to reporting sell in numbers for Kinect, which is what it has always done for consoles.

Greenberg;

aarongreenberg @therealcliffyb We have no channel inventory, so essentially the same #....every Kinect we make we sell.

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[Nirolak]

[DopeyFish]

Unreal. They matched both their forecasts combined :lol

[twinturbo2]

Has Ballmer had any Dance Monkeyboy moments yet?

[itxaka]

Amirox on suicide watch.

[eosos]

Wow.. congrats for them. I really dislike kinect, but whatever I suppose.

[kylej]

Hell yeah. Don't give a shit about Kinect but glad to see the 360 staying way stronger than its predecessor.

[confused]

Fucking WOW at Kinect. Who'd of thought they'd sell so fast ?

[mutsu]

Now watch this be a fad.

Really, that's quite amazing and out of all expectations.

[alr1ght]

Well I get you can say


it didn't


FLAIL


YEEEEEEEEEEAHH

[AniHawk]

360 should easily hit 60m at this rate. Maybe even match the NES if it sticks around long enough.

[Boney]

50 million+ 360'?

Wow, who knew. Kinect also seems like an incredible big number for such short time.

[Snaku]

Fuck me, a $150 webcam peripheral sold 8 million units in a matter of months. Guess I'm the asshole for mocking them.

[WickedLaharl]

[TacticalFox88]

NPD will be GLORIOUS! The tears...the TEARS. OMG. :lol

[KaYotiX]

Kinect is a nice change of pace from the main types of games we play at our house. I'm glad they did as well as they did. Now keep the GOOD software coming plz

[GavinGT]

This shit's gonna hit 30 million. Nobody would've ever predicted that (not here, anyways).

[vatstep]

What.

The fuck.

[mjc]

Goddddddamn that's insane. Can't wait to see if this draws serious developers to make games for it.

[sikkinixx]

Gives me hope I'll have more than 2 games to use mine with in the future.

[GhaleonEB]

Five million seemed like a stretch goal. They really hit this one out of the park. 0_o

[Jtyettis]

Wow.. congrats for them. I really dislike kinect, but whatever I suppose.

5th best selling home console ever passing up SNES. Next stop NES, my next favorite console. :D

Now who guessed that 5 years ago.

360 should easily hit 60m at this rate. Maybe even match the NES if it sticks around long enough.

62 million......Spring 2012.

[jim-jam bongs]

Ballmer looks like he's filing his nails in a classic pose of nonchalant victory

[Fantastical]

Damn, that's pretty crazy.

The curse of reality being the exact opposite of GAF strikes again. Watch out 3DS...

[bathala]

It only does everything

[Lebron]

They see ballin', they hatin.

[antonz]

Fuck me, a $150 webcam peripheral sold 8 million units in a matter of months. Guess I'm the asshole for mocking them.

The vast majority of the units are guaranteed to be bundled with consoles so its not that unrealistic. Kinect sales will remain at whatever pace eventually simply because console sold = kinect sold

[Grecco]

Guess that 500m was well spent.

[Dabanton]

Well this years E3 is going to be very interesting in terms of Kinect games.

[Saiyar]

50 million+ 360s means they sold at least 5.5 million this quarter.

[JordanLMiller]

Fantastic news.

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Fuck me, a $150 webcam peripheral sold 8 million units in a matter of months. Guess I'm the asshole for mocking them.

No, don't beat yourself up. It's the entire world that's an asshole, apparently.

[Belfast]

5th best selling home console ever passing up SNES. Next stop NES, my next favorite console. :D Now who guessed that 5 years ago.

You could sell people rocks as pets if you throw enough money at it.

[scitek]

Sold=Shipped? Still crazy-high. So happy the console generation will stay around for a few years more. :\

[Amir0x]

You could sell people rocks as pets if you throw enough money at it.

:lol

[Anasui Kishibe]

[apana]

Guess that 500m was well spent.

Has it all been spent?

[alr1ght]

They see ballmerin', they hatin.

fixed

[TacticalFox88]

God, I can't even get mad even though I didn't like Kinect. Ah, man, this is just....:lol Holy SHIT!

[K2Valor]

Pretty damn crazy. I don't think anyone expected it to not only succeed, but surpass its own expectations.

[Adam Blade]

I eagerly await Redbeard's response.

... oh wait.

[GarthVaderUK]

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[sixteen-bit]

very impressive

[professor_t]

I still think Kinect simply will not work -- or work well -- with many of the game game types I play the most, but I'm enjoying Kinect Sports and Dance Central way more than I thought I would (and more than I ever enjoyed anything comparable on the Wii). Good for them.

[MikeE21286]

meltdowns oh mi....

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[DECK'ARD]

More than I was expecting, but it was clear in the run-up to Christmas it was going to do well.

The marketing blitz was well-done, and successfully positioned it as the next big thing technology wise. They made Kinect itself the killer-app, rather than say the Wii where Wii Sports was the killer-app.

Dance Central definitely helped it along, but Microsoft pulled-off the 'new platform' thing and it was a good strategy. People wanted Kinect to have Kinect, and the people I know who bought it talk about it generally rather than any specific game.

In contrast Move was the one that got seen as "Been there, done that".

[dragonlife]

8 million smart people...

[thehillissilent]

Wow, i do have to give it to Microsoft, but they need to show me some real "core" games before I even think of getting one. Also, I don't want to pay for multiplayer or Advanced Kinect features so they are going to have to show me something special.

[VanMardigan]

Well deserved. Kinect Sports is a good party game, and Ubisoft's workout game has really helped my wife and I get in shape.

[Gospel]

Microoft going Macrohard, know what im sayin