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Kinect sells well over estimates - 8 million units shipped in 2 months
Ricardo Trejo
Kinect is the second-coming of the Nintendo Wii and yesterday’s Micorosoft Keynote confirmed it. And while I was a little excited as a tech enthusiast to hear that a piece of hardware may be changing the future of how we consume entertainment in the livingroom forever, as a gamer — when Ballmer announced that the Kinect sold well over the 5 million units originally estimated — his 8 million units bombshell struck me to the core.
Sony may have strut at 4 million Move units shipping at the end of its first 60 days, but Microsoft’s Kinect shipped twice as much as its newly introduced motion-controller rival. That being said, I couldn’t help but cringe at all the whooping and clapping coming from the crowd as Ballmer threw down their sales numbers.
And with the introduction of Avatar Kinect, new community interaction features for ESPN, and gesture based controls on Netflix and Hulu, I can only see them gaining more and more Kinect adopters as time goes on and as planned updates (such as the aforementioned) start trickling in.
