Microsoft upped its estimates for its Kinect motion-sensing peripheral last month saying that it expected the add-on to build an installed base of 5 million by the end of the year. Analyst firm Screen Digest is predicting that Microsoft will ride that momentum in 2011, and expects it to cast a large shadow in 2011.
Screen Digest expects Kinect to slightly outsell Move. While Sony's motion-sensing Move controller launched months earlier than Kinect, Screen Digest believes Microsoft's add-on will overtake its counterpart by the end of 2011. The firm predicted a worldwide Kinect installed base of 7.6 million, just edging out a 7.3 million Move-enabled PlayStation 3 user base.