{"id":8601,"date":"2010-11-18T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"playstation-move-bombs-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/8601-playstation-move-bombs-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Move bombs in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since launching on 17 September in the States, Sony&rsquo;s PlayStation Move motion controller has managed to shift just 400 000 units over there, according to Wedbush analyst and industry crystal ball-gazer, Michael Pachter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Move sold well below expectations in its first month&#8221; on the continent, and NPD sales results for October show a &#8220;modest second month&#8221; performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We estimate that Move has sold through approximately 400,000 units in the US in its first six weeks on the market,&#8221; Pachter says. &#8220;Interestingly, the higher priced Kinect controller appears to have overtaken the Move controller in the sales race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In America, anyway. Over in Europe, Move has apparently sold somewhere around 1.5 million. In contrast, in the ten days since its own launch, Microsoft&rsquo;s Kinect has already sold 1 million units worldwide, although whether or not it can maintain this momentum remains to be seen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&rsquo;s still early days yet for both peripherals, and for the moment, there&rsquo;s not much going for core gamers in either catalogue. That said, the Move-enabled Killzone 3 hit retails in February 2011, while unsubstantiated rumours of a Kinect Gears of War game are pretty much all Xbox owners have to hold onto.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u2019s motion controller sells \u201cwell below expectations\u201d<\/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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","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=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}