Microsoft to increase Kinect's expected sales or break Wii dominance

Tang Matrick Donmattrick, President of Microsoft Interactive Entertainment/wendy, said Xbox360 Kinect sales will reach 5 million units during the upcoming Christmas shopping season, with 3 million sales forecast.　　The Kinect will start selling 30,000 stores in the United States from the local time of midnight in Wednesday. Mattrick said the Kinect would be the best selling Xbox product ever, and added: "The Kinect's high demand or lead to tight supplies, affecting sales." Some partners are expected to be in short supply during the holidays and we will try our best to resolve the problem.　　"Kinect's separate price is $150, with The adventures adventure game Kinect, and users can also buy a bundle of Kinect and Xbox360 hosts, of which the 4GB version is priced at $299 and 250GB at $399." Microsoft hopes the Kinect will attract more mainstream user groups.　　Nintendo's Wii is still the most popular body-feeling game host, but its sales are slipping. In August, Lazard analyst Colin Sebastian Colinsebastian, the US market research firm, raised the Kinect's holiday sales forecast from 3 million to 4 million, including the kinect+xbox360 suit.　　Michael Pachel, a brokerage Wedbush analyst, Michaelpachter that Microsoft could sell 2 million to 4 million units of Kinect by March 2010. "Kinect is the most significant integrated marketing of the Xbox since its inception, even surpassing the release of the Xbox system itself," said Robert Mar Matthews, general manager of Xbox Global Marketing, Robertmatthews. "The Kinect's biggest competitive product, Sony move, was released in September, with 1.5 million units sold in Europe and 1 million units sold in the United States, with sales expected to reach 5 million by March next year." (Edit/Ming)