PS3's Move Closing The Sales Gap with Kinect

Microsoft has done a fantastic job marketing and selling Kinect, which stormed out the gate a year ago while Sony's PlayStation Move has been slow and steady. They've been on very different sales curves, but the hype has been so great for Kinect that you might not realize Move is only about a million units behind Kinect in sales and would appear to be closing the gap.

Kinect quickly reached 8 million sold in 60 days and then hit the 10 million mark, but that was back in March. Meanwhile, Sony's Move has been selling at a slightly steadier clip and has recently reached the 9 million mark. As IndustryGamers' Steve Peterson points out in his special on Kinect, "The Kinect's weakness has been the sales pattern, where 8 million devices sold in 2 months, and then in the next 10 months only 2 million more devices were sold. This has led to some concerns."

Ubisoft's VP of Marketing Tony Key, noted, “It's not healthy to just sell in the holiday, or 90% of your units in the holidays. We would really like to see them have some major launches during the non-holiday part of the year."

Kinect is likely to get another boost this holiday season with enticing Xbox 360 bundles at retail, but what will the long-term sales picture look like?

Personally for me i would much rather use Xbox's Kinect than Playstation Move. Xbox Kinect sees more innovative than PSMove for the simple reason been that PSM is basically a rip off of the Nintendo Wii's controller if not move advanced than the WIi version. But from my experience of using the Wii console there not bad but they aren't the best thing to use especially not from hardcore game. There more for your family orientated games and more casual. But i dont think any time in the future i will be purchasing a PSM. I think the only time i would get one is if Killzone 4 came out i would want to try it on the SP but no doubt Killzone 4 (when it confirmed) will be a launch title for the PS4. If i was to go the Playstation Move or Xbox Kinect route i would lean towards the XboxKinect even time sadly. Sorry sony.

Yeah, id buy move solely because i already have a ps3, otherwise kinect all the way

i'd buy none of them , they look like shit.

True white, im a gamer, not an athlete, i wanna sit on my couch and destroy noobs not jump around and look stupid

yeah who wants to play table tennis or golf on a console seriously..

Yeah, if i wanted exercise id go outside i think these things are in the same boat as the wii, we have a wii but i dont thing its been used for about a year

Already have teh move - but the kinect is not really new technology though. Sony has been using it for years with the eye. I see though that kinect has suffered the usual fate of motion dectectors - they are all dance games that work with it.

tbh if i had to get any of them i would get the move, just since i have a ps3 and i want to support sony! and plus i wouldnt mind seeing if its any good on games like killzone 3