Sony Says 4.1 Million Move Controllers Have Shipped, No Word on Sales
Sony Says 4.1 Million Move Controllers Have Shipped, No Word on Sales
Posted 11/30/2010 at 3:51pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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It seems like all the motion gaming news as of late has been about the Xbox Kinect system. Perhaps they were feeling left out, but Sony jumped into the middle of everything today by announcing they have shipped 4.1 million Move devices. What they left out, is how many of those have actually sold. Given the notable success of the Kinect (2.5 million sales so far), it might have been better if Sony hadn't said anything at all.
Since they chose to clue us in on the number of Move controllers they made, the uncomfortable issue of sales was bound to come up quickly. Sure enough, NPD is estimating that only about 500,000 Sony Move controllers have been sold thus far. That means a huge glut of motion controllers is sitting on shelves and in warehouses going into the holiday season.
We may be heading for a price drop is the Move doesn't start, *ahem*… moving. The Move bundle is going for $100 most places, but it only includes the camera, a game, and a single wand. Have you seen the Move languishing on your local store shelves?
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Ulrich
December 01, 2010 at 1:29pm
not that anyone should much care about these 2 items on a PC website I thought I'd at least point out that the 4.1 is worldwide... and NPD is just national.
Oh and the MS 2.5 million is also world wide.
ProtoJMB
November 30, 2010 at 8:44pm
I work at Target and I can say first hand we sell more Kinects than Playstation Move accessories. Of course Wii's sell more than either of them.
m1k3_flrs
November 30, 2010 at 7:40pm
This type of games never caught my attention, neither the wii, kinect or this PS move controller. I own the camera, i use it mostly for video chat but thats it no moving around games...
m1k3_flrs
November 30, 2010 at 7:45pm
Will you take your spam somewhere else, Im not interested on jerseys... I rather buy $250 worth of computer hardware than sports apparel.
Thrall
November 30, 2010 at 8:46pm
Yeah, the spam is getting kind of ridiculous, it really takes away from any conversation you want to get started on these interesting stories.
Ryan Whitwam
November 30, 2010 at 10:04pm
There used to be a more aggressive spam filter, but people had trouble getting real comments through often. Not sure how best to deal with this.
Caboose
November 30, 2010 at 10:17pm
I would suggest something similar to how commenting is done on Kotaku/Gizmodo/etc where the account has to be approved before anyone can comment. Sure it'd reset everyone back to nil but it'd be nice. And if the comment section could be collapsable. So if you have 8ppl reply to someone, it would use the @name tag to indicate WHO you are replying to, and it would make the comments section much more readable...
And "hire" (volunteer basis) visitors like myself and others to moderate! We're on the site a lot and can help squash the spammers pretty quickly!
dracx619
December 01, 2010 at 8:13am
sounds like a plan to me. let s do it! in the mean time, how about getting rid of captcha since its completely useless
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