In an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business guy Aaron Greenberg is all sorts of confident about the upcoming Kinect launch, predicting they’ll “definitely sell more sensors than the Wii sold when it launched”, pushing “three million this holiday”.
He’s also not too concerned about review scores, claiming these shouldn’t impact Kinect game sales significantly. “For us, these are different types of titles and experiences than maybe some of the games traditionally that are targeted to the core market. So the correlation between a review score for Halo: Reach and sales is very high, but Kinect Sports is more about just having fun,” he says. “I don’t know how reviewers will grade those games because they’re so unique and so different to what the reviewers have played with controllers. We’d love to see great reviews but I don’t think you’ll see the same type of correlation between reviews and actual sales of the game, would be my guess.”
He might have a point there, but are three million people really that interested in having fun? I mean, we’re talking about gamers here, not real people.
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