wraggster
November 28th, 2011, 22:48
Microsoft's Kinect peripheral has moved 114,000 units during its first year on sale in Japan.According to Famitsu, as translated by Andriasang (http://andriasang.com/comz47/kinect_one_year_sales/), sales of the system are currently at around 2000 units per month, with its best performance coming in December 2010 when it managed 43,200.Here's the full month-by-month breakdown:
November 2010: 27,800
December 2010: 43,200
January 2011: 14,800
February 2011: 5040
March 2011: 3160
April 2011: 2100
May 2011: 1910
June 2011: 3470
July 2011: 2980
August 2011: 2460
September 2011: 1900
October 2011: 3333
November 2011: 1980
Famitsu also published a list of the top 10 best-performing Kinect-enabled games. The only title that has managed to sell more than 25,000 copies is Kinect Adventures, but only by virtue of being bundled with the device.Aside from Kinect Adventures, the best-selling Kinect-only title is Konami's DanceEvolution (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-09-danceevolution-review), with 22,400 copies sold.
Kinect Adventures: 114,000
Forza Motorsport 4: 24,900
DanceEvolution: 22,400
Kinect Sports: 13,000
You Shape Fitness Evolved: 12,300
Dance Central: 8690
Kinectimals: 5350
New Brain Training 4930
Sonic Free Riders: 4160
Fighters Uncaged: 3470
Back in February this year, Microsoft announced that it had sold 10 million Kinect systems worldwide. That figure hasn't been updated since.As of last week, Microsoft had sold 1,519,214 million Xbox 360 consoles in Japan since launch.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-28-kinect-sold-114-000-units-in-japan-in-its-first-year
November 2010: 27,800
December 2010: 43,200
January 2011: 14,800
February 2011: 5040
March 2011: 3160
April 2011: 2100
May 2011: 1910
June 2011: 3470
July 2011: 2980
August 2011: 2460
September 2011: 1900
October 2011: 3333
November 2011: 1980
Famitsu also published a list of the top 10 best-performing Kinect-enabled games. The only title that has managed to sell more than 25,000 copies is Kinect Adventures, but only by virtue of being bundled with the device.Aside from Kinect Adventures, the best-selling Kinect-only title is Konami's DanceEvolution (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-09-danceevolution-review), with 22,400 copies sold.
Kinect Adventures: 114,000
Forza Motorsport 4: 24,900
DanceEvolution: 22,400
Kinect Sports: 13,000
You Shape Fitness Evolved: 12,300
Dance Central: 8690
Kinectimals: 5350
New Brain Training 4930
Sonic Free Riders: 4160
Fighters Uncaged: 3470
Back in February this year, Microsoft announced that it had sold 10 million Kinect systems worldwide. That figure hasn't been updated since.As of last week, Microsoft had sold 1,519,214 million Xbox 360 consoles in Japan since launch.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-28-kinect-sold-114-000-units-in-japan-in-its-first-year