PlayStation Move Sales Lower Than Expected in North American Market; Dominating European Market
[Update: Misleading headline changed, with my apologies]
Earlier today, CVG posted the sales figures of the PlayStation Move.
Despite the shipment of one million Move controllers to the United States, Sony has sold approximately 400,000 of them, which analyst Michael Pachter considers “well below expectations”.
Consider that the PlayStation Move has been out for nearly two months, whereas Microsoft’s own motion controller, Kinect, has sold nearly one million in its first ten days of release.
Sony states that the PlayStation Move is more popular in Europe, having sold 1.5 million units. It is unclear whether the 400,000 units sold in the United States includes Move units sold bundled with the 320GB PS3.
I’m not in love with that headline…surely 400k hardcore fanboys are screaming out in mortal terror. I’m riding the fence until there is a baseline set of compelling software that requires or is enhanced by the Move. I’ve wasted way too much cash over the years on useless peripherals to make that mistake on the Move (or Kinect for that matter).
Move sold 1.5 million in the first week in Europe. Kinect sold 1 million around the world in ten days. But of course the USA is all that counts, so of course nobody is buying this thing.
Ok, I usually don’t take off my “Official Nukezilla Comedy Sexpert” hat but I had some opinions.
The title is misleading and inflammatory.
The person who said the Move was selling “well below expectations” was Michael Pachter (who was not mentioned). Your second paragraph implies that Sony itself considers that “no one bought it” and is therefore some kind of a failure. Different people (i.e analysts, stockholders, game developers) have different expectations for a product. So just saying “sales are low” without any interesting discussion or context is silly and inflammatory.
*puts hat back on*
BOOOOOOBS!