US Market research company – Ipsos – has reported that Microsoft’s Kinect is most likely to be the more successful of the gaming hardware in terms of sales over the Christmas period. The company has come to this prediction based on polls and surveys which they have conducted which showed that 13% of the respondents were intending to purchase a Kinect kit over the 11% who indicated they would be purchasing PlayStation’s Move.
In their surveys asking which of the two consumers had more faith in as a device working as promised, Kinect surprisingly scored 44% against Move’s 29%. I say surprised because I have tested the Move and thought it worked like a charm, with incredible reaction time, which is the most important factor with the ‘motion’ systems.
“Given a new usage experience, one might expect some level of skepticism among respondents for Kinect” said Ipsos. “Surprisingly, though, Kinect excels on both uniqueness and believability… PS Move is rather weak on both dimensions.”
“While there are a lot of factors other than consumer appeal that influence demand, the underlying potential for Xbox Kinect looks very good.”
