{"id":2371,"date":"2011-01-17T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2011-01-17T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:30:05","slug":"kinect-outsells-move-5-to-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/kinect-outsells-move-5-to-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinect Outsells Move 5 to 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/199579_S\/GDC-2010-Sony-Motion-Controller-Officially-Called-PlayStation-Move.jpg\" alt=\"GDC 2010: Sony Motion Controller Officially Called PlayStation Move\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the dust settles and smog clears on holiday sales in the game  industry, we&#8217;re getting more of a feel for the game industry, including  who won and lost and in the game of the new motion-controllers.  According to industry analyst Michael Pachter, Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect  outsold PlayStation Move 5 to 1 in the all-important holiday buying  month of December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout one fifth of PS3 sales included bundles with Sony\u2019s Move   controller, suggesting a modest third month,\u201d said Pachter. \u201cAbout half  of Xbox 360  sales included bundles with Microsoft\u2019s Kinect peripheral,  as Xbox 360  Kinect console bundles outsold PS3 Move console bundles by  5:1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but according to Pachter, the top two  selling Kinect  software titles outsold the top two Move titles by over  13:1.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"readmore\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At CES, Microsoft&#8217;s Steve Balmer said M&#8217;Soft had sold  8 million  Kinect units (he apparently meant &#8220;shipped, however), a larger number  than the 5 million the company originally predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the dust settles and smog clears on holiday sales in the game industry, we&#8217;re getting more of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}