At today’s CES keynote, Steve Ballmer announced that Kinect has sold 8m units in the first 60 days of being on sale. That’s a massive increase on the 2.5m that the Kinect had sold back at the end of November, a month after launch. To put it in perspective, these Kinect sales figures mean that Kinect has outsold the iPad.
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Lego video game ahoy! Disney Interactive Studios and TT Games are embarking on a voyage to create another Lego Video Game: Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game. The game will use storylines and characters from the first three films, plus the upcoming film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Yesterday we asked you which you thought was better, Kinect or Move. Despite Move having a lot more time in the wild than Kinect, the full body motion controll system trumped it, pipping Move to the post by 10 per cent, with 51 per cent to Move’s 41 per cent. The rest of you said that both Move and Kinect were no good. Ouch.
This week at Electricpig towers is all about Kinect and Call of Duty: Black Ops. We’ll be reporting on where is opening at midnight tonight, and chasing elusive pricing too, so be sure to check in throughout the day today. Kinect is launching on Wednesday, and we’re holding our second reader inquisition on Tuesday for you to get your hands on Kinect before it hits the shops. Are you itching for news on a particular gadget this week? Shout in the comments and we’ll do the chasing for you!
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The post-apocalyptic world of the Fallout games is full of bugs. You’ve got your giant scorpions, your bloatflys, giant ants and the ubiquitous radroaches. Fallout: New Vegas comes with quite a few more, alas.
After Steve Ballmer said earlier in the week that the product he was most excited about was Kinect, rather than Windows Phone 7, we asked you which one you were more excited about, and which one you thought would be more successful Despite the lack of confidence in Ballmer, he was expecting Kinect to really revolutionise gaming. We wondered about this, given that Windows Phone 7 is just around the corner, and put it to you, our readers.
This morning, Steve Ballmer told a crowded lecture theatre at LSE that he was more excited about Kinect than Windows Phone 7, the latter of which is launching next week. The Kinect is further off, but Ballmer certainly seems to want to up the ante with the hype for the Kinect, even if you do need to tidy up for it to work properly.