{"id":8209,"date":"2011-03-09T12:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8209"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:21:22","slug":"kinect-fastest-selling-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/kinect-fastest-selling-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Kinect Fastest Selling Device Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9988 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kinect-S-e1428471061220.jpg\" alt=\"kinect-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/>MARCH 9, 2011 \u2022 Guinness World Records claims the Microsoft Kinect motion sensing device was the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever, with an average daily sell-through of 133,333 units per day from November 4th through January 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. Microsoft says 8 million Kinects were sold within its first 60 days in release, with a total of 10 million sold between November and March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Kinect was a massive hit and a major revenue and earnings driver for Microsoft.\u00a0 Kinect could help put Microsoft in the black and may help convince Steve Ballmer to pull the trigger on a soon needed Xbox 360 successor.\u00a0 However, long-term we do not think the Kinect will have much of an impact in either the console race or in creating a new platform for developers\u00a0 Microsoft took a page from the Nintendo playbook that makes them a whole bunch of money without creating an entirely new publishing platform.\u00a0 However, maybe the success of the Kinect will help fund a new platform.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 9, 2011 \u2022 Guinness World Records claims the Microsoft Kinect motion sensing device was the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever, with an average daily sell-through of 133,333 units per day from November 4th through January 3rd. Microsoft says 8 million Kinects were sold within its first 60 days in release, with a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,168,58],"tags":[432,52,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16660,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/16660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}