Microsoft has announced a release date for Kinect Sports: Season 2, while revealing that sales of the original have hit three million copies.
Kinect software marketing director Michael Johnson told Joystiq that Kinect Sports found a larger audience in Europe than it did in the US, although the roles were reversed for Dance Central, which he says has reached 2.5 million sales.
Johnson also told CVG this week that he thinks Kinect can break records again this Christmas, with the help of big brands such as Disney and Star Wars.
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roland82 on 19 Aug '11 said:
Im sure I read about Microsoft boasting about passing 10 million Kinect sales recently. If thats true 3 million for its flagship title is pretty poor.
chunkysatsuma on 19 Aug '11 said:
Kinect sports is amazing deserves its success, 3 million sold for most games is great
If you have Kinect but dont have Kinect sports then you are seriously missing out, its motion control done right!
c3dpo on 19 Aug '11 said:
^^
DC and wii sports Rock
And yeah, loads have been bought by budding PC / kinect devs since MS released the SDK (good on them and the developers on PC)
Black Mantis on 20 Aug '11 said:
Name one flagship title that has sold even half the amount of the platform it was created for?
NEO_SUPERMAN on 21 Aug '11 said:
3 million is pretty poor? That's 30% of kinect owners.
Just to put it into perspective -
PS MOVE sports champions - under 1 mill
Killzone 3 - under 2 mill
Killzone 2 - under 3 mill
KINECT SPORTS - 3 mill +
Uncharted - 3 mill +
Uncharted 2 - 3 mill +
And all PS3 have a user base of 50 mill +.
Still think it's pretty poor?