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Kinect sells over 8 million units… smashes the expected figure

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Major Nelson has tweeted this morning that Microsoft has now sold over 8 million Kinect units in their first 60 days.

While he isn’t specifying whether that is shipped to retail or customers it is impossible to ignore huge figures like that and the doom mongers who scoffed at the original 3 million figure brandished by Microsoft must now be feeling a little sheepish.

He also went on to mention that the Xbox 360 has also now passed the 50 million mark worldwide and that the Xbox Live membership count has now breached 30 million.

Those are some pretty amazing numbers and you can expect there to be a lot of champagne flowing in Redmond today.

Source: Twitter

Last Updated: January 6, 2011

5 Comments

  1. FoxOneZA

    January 6, 2011 at 10:54

    There was some nasty bets going around that MS won’t make the 5mil mark.

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  2. fred

    January 6, 2011 at 10:56

    Shipped , not sold apparently.
    Good for Kinect and casual gaming , lets hope the software improves.

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  3. Craig Deubler

    January 6, 2011 at 12:25

    Comments from Aaron Greenberg on twitter -> “there is no channel inventory” it’s all being sold straight through, so it’s pretty much retail sales as well:
    http://twitter.com/#!/aarongreenberg

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    • Gavin Mannion

      January 6, 2011 at 12:48

      That’s a pretty bold statement, so he’s basically saying that most shops have little to no stock and as they arrive it’s sold or is he implying there is no stock in the regional depots to hand out to retailers?

      Either way you (people in general) are on a major losing streak if you try to convince anyone that the Kinect is failing.

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  4. Parker

    January 6, 2011 at 18:01

    I don’t think there was any doubt it would sell well. The question is: does it have games?

    Casuals answer: yes.
    Hardcore answer: no.

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