Along with announcing Avatar Kinect and upcoming Kinect controls for Netflix and Hulu Plus, Microsoft also took a brief moment during their CES keynote for a little bragging. CEO Steve Balmer revealed that since its launch, the Kinect has sold 8 million units worldwide — that’s 8 million in about 60 days.
The number crushed Microsoft’s target of 3 million Kinect sales by the end of 2010 that they set before its launch, and even went way beyond the 5 million they expected to sell 10 days after it was on market. Then again, it’s of course possible they were low-balling their sales targets to manage expectations a bit in the first place.
Still, 8 million in 60 days is a strong number, so at least so far, Kinect seems to be quite a hit.
