by Activision Publishing
Platform: PlayStation 3
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Release Date: November 9, 2010
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While Cyber Monday is a big day for online retailers, it appears as though Facebook isn’t yet the primary source for finding out about cyber monday deals.
Yesterday we posted a poll asking users, “Are you using Facebook to find Cyber Monday deals?” The results, which are posted below, showed that approximately a quarter of users turned to Facebook for finding deals. Almost 38 percent however weren’t shopping online and the remainder didn’t use Facebook as their primary resource for finding deals. Given that only a couple hundred people voted in our poll, there’s no doubt that our results are not the most scientific ones.
Perhaps it’s actually somewhat impressive that a quarter of people used Facebook for finding deals. We should have asked another poll for those users to see where they found deals, through friends or pages. One thing is clear: while Facebook isn’t the primary source for online shopping information, it’s playing an increasingly important roll in the world of e-commerce. That increasing role may explain why the Facebook e-commerce platform, Payvment, was able to raise $6 million.
Source: All Facebook
By the way, Alienware’s excellent M11x ultraportable gaming laptop is still selling for an affordable $599. The $200 off Black Friday sale that started last week hasn’t been ended yet so if you thought you missed it, you didn’t. The more expensive M11x R2 gets $160 knocked off, but only on the high-end build (dropping [...]
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Late yesterday, Microsoft shot out a press release declaring 2.5 million in unit sales for the Kinect motion controller. This morning, Sony said it shipped 4.1 million PlayStation Moves.
There's really not much else to say besides:
Remember, however, that Microsoft wants to sell 5 million Kinects before the end of 2010. Sure, they sold 1 million in 10 days -- but another 2.5 million in 31? That seems like a stretch. Also, to be completely fair, the PlayStation Move had a head start worldwide and requires people to buy more than one controller per console.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the Move units as sold, not shipped.
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