Early Reports Suggest Kinect Having "Rough Start" in Japan

But they're even more gullible of buying into the Move instead.

Somewhere a Failbox360 fanboy is crying himself to sleep on his penis shaped pillow

Look at my shocked face! 

This is america,we don't care about japan just like they don't care about us.

Is my neutral/uncaring opinion towards both Kinect and Move a popular opinion among 20-something gamers or am I in the vast minority here? To my eyes Move is literally nothing that hasn't been around for years on the Wii. And from the handfull of reviews I've seen, maybe around 25% of Kinect games actually function and respond the way they were intended to. Nobody bought either HD system because they wanted gimmicky family games, the type of people who would spend money on that probably bought a Wii years ago and wouldn't care enough to spend hundreds more just for better graphics.

Who knows, maybe Kinect will get its kinks ironed out and maybe Sony will think of some trick with a motion controller Nintendo never thought of. But for now I'm amazed either of them is selling well here, let alone in Japan.

This means that Kinect is doing better as a percentage of owner sales.  ie the 360 sells 1/9 of the Ps3 sales, so if Kinect is 1/4 Moves sales then Kinect has a much higher attach rate.

The low install base for the Xbox 360 meant that people would not be buying Kinect immediately.  As it has been noted as well, the size of most Japanese apartments is restrictive for the hardware.  Kinect sales could improve if word of mouth is positive, but it will have to bring in a new audience that has the space to use the hardware to be successful. 

that when Wii being doing it for years

This kind of technology is not new to the japs. 

Give it up Microsoft!  Japan are proud people and are proud of their own products!  Trying to sell the Xbox 360 and Kinect to Japanese gamers is like trying to sell a Ford car to a Japanese citizen.  Why would someone in Japan buy a poor quality American car when they could buy a Honda or Mazda that's made in their own country?

Well... it's the same thing!  Same mentality!  I have Japanese friends and when they see "Made in USA", they treat it the same way as when we see stuff that says "Made in Taiwan"!  What does "Made in Taiwan" mean to Americans?  It means that the product you are buying is cheap and will break.  Japan sees the same with "Made in USA" and the fact that the Xbox 360 has a huge reputation of getting RROD problems ever since launch, that is NOT HELPING IT WHATSOEVER!!!

In a country where space is limited, how on earth is something that requires a lot of living room space gonna be popular?

xbox has never done well in Japan. i'm sure if knect took off there MS would be surprised.

So let me get this straight. The Kinect,and add-on device for the 360,isn't selling well in a region where the 360 itself is widely known to likewise not sell well? Color. Me. Shocked.

Not suprised kinect stinks

Sorry M$ 

People need to remember that the 360 is less popular in Japan, and then add in the fact that a lot of Japanese housing in major cities are small apartments. Cant really expect it to sell, the statistics i want to see is the percent of users that are buying kinect.