Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Kinect vs iPad Sales

Why compare Kinect vs. iPad sales this Christmas shopping season:

A lot of comments on the web from people who don't understand why this matters.

Here is why:

#1 Makes the X-Box a hot product again, and the Kinect may be the hot product for Christmas, little Jimmy which do you want for Christmas an iPad or the Kinect?

#2 Battle for the living room, X-Box is back in the front of people's minds here vs. Apple TV. Don't miss the ESPN content deal that also happened on X-Box.

#3 The amount of consumer $$$ spent on video games shifts back to consoles from the app stores.

Now some of these are false choices as I believe in the era we live in computing technology and interactive entertainment of all kinds will flourish it is not an either or scenario. House and cars sales not so much, but that is another story...