With news of Kinect selling 2.5 million units in 25 days still ringing in our ears, Sony has hit back with some figures of its own.
Since launch, sales of Move controllers have surpassed 4.1 million units. This excludes stand-alone sales of the PS Eye and Navigation Controller. Pretty impressive stuff and actually more than I was expecting, especially with the rather low-key marketing push.
Now let’s have some more games for both peripherals!
Source: Press Release
kivi95
Is this SOLD or SHIPPED?
Dan Lee
PR Says ‘sold’
kivi95
Yeah i no but sony often says sold when they meen shipped.But if this is sold then it’s GREAT.
FoxHoundGabe
It is probably shipped, as you say, sony almost always says sold but means shipped, still, better that what i though! hope it keeps up!
djhsecondnature
Sold and shipped are basically the same thing though. Retailers don’t request more stock than they expect to sell and with both Move and Kinect being Sold Out in a lot of places there’s unlikely to be much of a difference in the two figures.
cc_star
Engadget are catergorically stating its SHIPPED not SOLD
although djh is probably right as retailers won’t be sitting on mountains of the things, although they will have enough in their warehouses to see them up to Christmas & v. early in the Jan sales, whereas I understand it MS figures are sold in actual transactions through the till
Juelz345
From Joystiq:
Update 2: A Sony representative explained that the 4.1 million actually represents Move units shipped to stores, adding “While we don’t disclose our exact sell-through number, the key is that our retailers continue to ask for more Move units and are taking every unit we can supply them with based on their sales.” Which, you know, would have been a cool thing to put in that press release, we think.
ericzap
Here’s the thing. At best buy we get regular shipments twice a week. On each shipment we usually expect close to 100 move peripherals. And we sell them like hotcakes. So shipped and sold may be pretty close.
Juelz345
I’m pretty sure that the shipped figure is relatively close, but the Sony press release didn’t make the distinction and was actually misleading. It’s not for fetched to imagine that there are 1 mil units sitting on store shelves *world wide*. That would bring the total down to 3.1 mil. When you consider that most people have multiple controllers, you can reasonably cut that figure down to 1.5-2 mil house holds. When you consider that it’s been on sale for twice as long as Kinect 1.5-2 mil households just doesn’t seem as impressive compared to 2.5 in half the time.
Again, when you look at Move’s figures on it’s own it’s impressive, so good on Sony. I still haven’t purchased Kinect as yet, due to lack of appealing games, but i’m glad to see both devices are doing well. I’m really looking forward to trying Socom 4 and KZ3 with move.
cc_star
Exactly, of all the shelf space in all of the retailers in all the world and all of their warehouse space which is needed to keep all that stock, the figure does start diminishing for Sony, then when you take into account that most motion control sales will be for sociable gaming where people have bought 2-4 units the number of house-holds that Move might be in may not be all the impressive.
Saying that retailers wouldn’t buy them if they weren’t going to sell them so this will be the volume of units actually sold to end-users through till sometime in Jan
dude90
Looks like Move is selling well, still haven’t picked it up yet.
Bilbo_bobbins
thats pretty impressive, thinking about getting move for christmas for the family
DrNate86
Wow better than I thought. Even taking into account people who own 2 controllers, that’s still a healthy amount. It is a lot cheaper though, so the fact the more expensive Kinect is selling as well is testament to the stronger marketing. Still impressive for such a poorly marketed device, and really reassuring for continued support of the peripheral.
Jim H [Teabags]
Some pretty surprising numbers there, especially as it excludes the Navs and Eyes. I went into my local GAME and Gamestation yersterday, and neither have any Move controllers in stock.
PriceKitty
That’s over double the sales ‘Kinect’ earned!
WooT for Sony!
cc_star
Two things, there’s nothing to suggest its in anywhere near double the homes Kinect is in as many people may have bought more than 1 each, and it has been on sale for double the time
ratkiller75
Exactly right! Probably two to a home on average means that Kinect is doing so much better than Move in terms of household sales although total sales is still important. This is trying to use statistics to make themselves look better than Microsoft.
ElGuason
cool beans i really want to try it out!
R4U Eldave0
Havent really been impressed with the Move as of yet, with it feeling more like a Wii 2.0 than something new and interresting. Sorcery may certainly change my view of it though in the new year ;)
gazzagb
Although 1 Move controller = 1 Player. Kinect = 4 Players (I think?). Still, impressive sales.
Galiophaurus
Even if 1 Kinect = 4 players, and there is a game for 4 simultaneous players (?) the needed space constraints would probably reduce the number of kinects out there with the potential to play a 4 player game…
Not saying that the move doesn’t need space … it does … but kinect needs even more …
JesseDeya
Kinect can only track two players at once. If you have more than that they have to cycle through, no different to handing your Move controllers over to the next person.
Actually Move can track 4 Move controllers at once, so it’s possible to have 4 people playing simultaneously (Flight Control HD for instance), something that isn’t possible with Kinect.
Pluses and minuses for both systems. I have two Moves and my friends have two Moves so whenever we come around we just bring our own controllers to get a full compliment of four. Works out cheaper than Kinect in that instance.
Darth Newdar
Well done Sony.