{"id":8289,"date":"2010-11-01T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-s-aaron-greenberg-predicts-3-million-kinect-sales-this-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/8289-microsoft-s-aaron-greenberg-predicts-3-million-kinect-sales-this-holiday","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Aaron Greenberg predicts 3 million Kinect sales this holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2010-10-28-microsofts-aaron-greenberg-interview?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>, Microsoft&rsquo;s Interactive Entertainment Business guy Aaron Greenberg is all sorts of confident about the upcoming Kinect launch, predicting they&rsquo;ll &ldquo;definitely sell more sensors than the Wii sold when it launched&rdquo;, pushing &ldquo;three million this holiday&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s also not too concerned about review scores, claiming these shouldn&rsquo;t impact Kinect game sales significantly. &ldquo;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,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t know how reviewers will grade those games because they&#8217;re so unique and so different to what the reviewers have played with controllers. We&#8217;d love to see great reviews but I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll see the same type of correlation between reviews and actual sales of the game, would be my guess.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He might have a point there, but are three million people really that interested in having fun? I mean, we&rsquo;re talking about gamers here, not real people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And review scores won\u2019t matter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}