It seems that Sony has finally given an update on how much Move has sold.
Source: http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1220282p1.htmlIGN said:
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PlayStation Move Ships 10.5 Million Units
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panama chief
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ZING!
MightyHedgehog
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Makes judging the viability of a potential Move-exclusive seem pretty much impossible, though low sales charting of all Move-exclusive retail releases not bundled tell the tale. From 8.8 million reported in June of 2011 to 10.5 million February 2012? Super slow uptake now.
AndrewDean84xX
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I bet they count the camera as a seperate unit as well. lol
Combichristoffersen
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Kinect: *laughs*
Yes, they actually have a handful of notable titles that use it from the likes of Sorcery, Datura, and unannounced things like Until Dawn.
blizzardjesus
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My local best buy has about 200 move controllers on the back wall, they all have the production markings/code from the first batch produced.
GarthVaderUK
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It was 9 million in November last year: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/24/report-playstation-move-ships-9-million-a-million-in-the-past/
Kinect was at 18 million in January this year: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/09/xbox-360-now-at-66-million-worldwide-kinect-at-18-million/
Kinect was at 18 million in January this year: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/09/xbox-360-now-at-66-million-worldwide-kinect-at-18-million/
canedaddy
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haha
Bioshock Infinite, Sorcery and Datura
Forsete
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Colonel Mustard
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mclaren777
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I love my Move and I don't regret buying it.
Reallink
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It would suggest unique move owners (accounting for duplicates and nav) is probably 5 or 6 million at best. Nav probably sold to ~20% of unique owners while another 20-30% are likely MP duplicates. Really a shame, cause Move is objectively superior to Kinect from a purely gaming perspective. Killzone, Festival of Blood, and the rail shooters (e.g. House of the Deads) are MUCH better games with Move. If "Cores" could just got past their irrational hate of "waggle" and spend more than 10 minutes with a poorly calibrated set up before declaring "this sucks", Move could have been something special.
petethepanda
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The excellent LittleBigPlanet Move DLC pack finally made the purchase feel at least somewhat worthwhile, but I really wish we'd get more PSN games based around the Move. Surprised there hasn't been more of that.
MightyHedgehog
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I don't think that this is the reason for Move failing to take off at all. It's all about Sony not doing a better job of putting it together in the first place, not putting a lot more money behind exclusive games meant to showcase its value to players, and failing to encourage their third party partners to support it better than committing old game ports. The whole thing has seemed so ridiculously scattershot since the beginning. Blaming the customer for not buying is absurd. They're not the ones asking for the other's time and money, after all.
The problem was that in both concept and marketing presence Sony tried to ape their far more successful and long-standing counterpart rather than try to build an audience on their own terms. Microsoft did a decent job going in their own direction all things considered.
I agree that It's a nice tech, superior to Kinect for me (can't say "objectively", there're different technology that have advantages and drawbacks, but I think that Move produce far less errors and the fact it has buttons change a lot). I'm truly disappointed to see it sinking like that, but that's not surprising, it never got any support (a couple of games for Move and a couple of "alternate controls" won't support such a device).
That being said, I think Move is a great technology for motion tracking, but I still think that pointing functions (which gives great games) are a bit better/precise with a direct computation with a camera in the wand, wiimote-style. I would have loved to see a Wiimote plus with a magnetometer and a color ball in standard somewhere next gen, best from both worlds
I believe that is Sony's failure. They are to technology focused. They have the best motion device (from a technological perspective) but they don't back it up. Nintendo built their console around an inferior version and the casuals flocked to it. Microsoft copied the Eyetoy and marketed the heck out of it. Makes "core" gamers laugh, but those are not the market anyway (and they don't buy Move either).
Criminal Upper
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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Sho_Nuff82
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Sony never really invested in big exclusives for the thing, and core gamers are never going to heavily adopt motion controls for skill-based gaming. That market is already addressed by the mouse/kb. As long as the experience was entirely optional, gamers always have the option of saving $50-$100.
Similarly, Kinect isn't going to sell big numbers with a heavy push for Mass Effect voice controls and Ghost Recon gun lobbies. Dance Central, Your Shape Fitness, Child of Eden, Fruit Ninja, Crimson Dragon, Kinect Sports, those are the experiences that will sell people on the device.
Similarly, Kinect isn't going to sell big numbers with a heavy push for Mass Effect voice controls and Ghost Recon gun lobbies. Dance Central, Your Shape Fitness, Child of Eden, Fruit Ninja, Crimson Dragon, Kinect Sports, those are the experiences that will sell people on the device.
Spirit Icana
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I'm not Sho it's eNuff... 82.
Agree 100%
Baconsammy
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I owned a Move for exactly 3 days. And then shipped it all back to Amazon. Wasn't impressed in the slightest. But hey, I probably count 3 amongst the 10.5 million since I bought 2 dildo wands and one tiny clitoral stimulator thingy.
Sony doesn't spend enough money on marketing things. Maybe because they can't, maybe because they won't. They spend so much money r&d-ing hardware and the they just throw it out there and wonder why it fails.
If Sony wanted to be doing better all they would need is to spend money.
If Sony wanted to be doing better all they would need is to spend money.
Noisepurge
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Somewhat, Sorcery is coming out next:
But i would like to see more inFamous 2/Resistance 3 type integration to action adventure/FPS games.
AcceptableGhost
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Well it's better than forcing their studios to make Move games in which they will eventually leave Sony because of such dick move.
To be fair, at least one person at Sony has admitted they did a terrible job with the software
http://www.computerandvideogames.co...-move-great-tech-probably-not-so-great-games/
http://www.computerandvideogames.co...-move-great-tech-probably-not-so-great-games/
AcceptableGhost
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Yes, all of the Naughty Dog guys would have surely left if they would have had to swap the right stick with wrist aiming as an option in Uncharted 3. What a nightmare that intense workload would have been.
That's because when they think Move they think adding waggling.
My following question to Balestra was supposed to investigate that. When I asked "But when you think about..." and he interrupts by saying "We aren't thinking about it" or something. I was actually trying to ask "When you think about Move, do you think about it as just a waggling device or do you see the potential past the waggling?"
It seems to me some devs feel the need to come up with solutions tailored to the Move to make it worthy, but to me it's not necessary at all. Especially in a game involving some shooting mechanics. See inFamous 2: aiming / controlling the camera with the Move is just amazing enough to justify the implementation. No need to think about adding waggling stuff.
Oh, is this another one of those "I don't know how to do it, but I know it's easy"?
10.5 is a great number IMO, wouldn't be surprised if sony made some decent money on the peripheral.
Everyone uses shipped numbers unless specifically stated otherwise 99.9% of the time.
I think Sony has the best motion device from a gameplay perspective but I think most would consider MS' tech to be more "advanced". Kinect is not just a copy of the eyetoy.
Everyone uses shipped numbers unless specifically stated otherwise 99.9% of the time.
I think Sony has the best motion device from a gameplay perspective but I think most would consider MS' tech to be more "advanced". Kinect is not just a copy of the eyetoy.
anon_mastermind
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I think it was a big missed opportunity to not include optional Move support in Uncharted 2 and 3.
I actually prefer the standard Wii controller to anything else. You dont have to worry about drift and it didnt require constant recalibration.
JetBlackPanda
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I loved the MOVE it worked extremely well.
then..
NOTHING
what a waste Sony.
then..
NOTHING
what a waste Sony.