Matt Barlow, the general manager of product marketing at Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, in an interview with GamesIndustry International has announced that its hand-free controller, the Kinect, has shipped 20 million units worldwide.
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
Werent the sales at 18 million last holiday season? The sales for it have slowed down immensely, hopefully this shows that the audience has no interest in such peripherals
Quite the slow down indeed, then again Kinect has a proven record of selling crazy numbers over the holidays.
The slow down is because there isn't much quality software
The price was almost the price of the 4gig console and half of the prem model. Kinect cost $150 far too long hense the most recent drop in price. I see PS3 fans in here attacking Kinect but won't give PS Vita the same logic.
As for the $99 xbox payment plan MSFT won't do a real drop(don't have to) so this is the next best thing besides the retail drop perhaps testing this plan out for the possible expensive xbox 720(Kinect is seen as over pricedby consumers for what it is despite it actually being worth more than we're being charged based on tech and R&D)
That is still alot of Kinects, install base ratio wise.
I see people in here talking about a number that always seems to be the same just like the numbers Sony releases for PS3.
All this talk about slow down and I can't help but feel surprised that the Kinect even managed to sell 20 million units.