Microsoft to raise the Kinect set Christmas sales forecast to 5 million units

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Microsoft Sales
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In the early morning of November 4, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Department President Tang Matrick (Don Mattrick) said that the company will be the Xbox 360 Kinect experience game set of Christmas sales forecast from 3 million to 5 million units. Mattrick also said the Kinect will be the best selling Xbox product in history. Microsoft will officially launch the Kinect tomorrow.  It is reported that the Xbox 360 game host Peripherals in the world are out of stock problems.  The Kinect is priced at $150 alone, with a body-feeling adventure game, the Kinect adventures, and users can also buy a bundle of Kinect and Xbox 360 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, Colin Sebastian, an analyst at US market research firm Lazard, Colin Sebastian the Kinect's holiday sales forecast from 3 million to 4 million, including the Kinect+xbox 360 suit.  Michael Pachter, a brokerage Wedbush analyst, Michael Pachel that Microsoft could sell 2 million to 4 million units of Kinect by March 2010. Earlier this year, Robert Mar Matthews, general manager of Xbox Global Marketing, said: "Kinect is the most important integrated marketing of the Xbox since its inception, and even surpassed the release of the Xbox system itself." "Sony issued a PS move handle similar to the Wii handle in September and has sold 1.5 million units in Europe and sold 1 million units in the Americas," said the manager. The company expects global sales of 5 million units to be available by March next year. (Digging the shell net)
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