Neil Thompson, general manager for the British market, said it will not be possible to satisfy the huge amount of requests to the innovative device Kinect day one, but confirmed that a significant number of units is expected to arrive in the UK during the first week. To confirm this, the major international retailers such as Amazon, Blockbuster and Play have exhausted the availability of advance, the expectation of consumers is very high and Microsoft is working day and night to meet the huge demand.

Kinect therefore seems to have attracted public attention, and is expected to distribute hundreds of thousands of units over the Christmas period.