Microsoft has sold more than eight million Kinect for Xbox 360 systems between 4 November 2010 and 3 January 2011.
At an average rate of 133,333 units per day in its first 60 days on sale, the accomplishment has set Microsoft a Guinness World Record as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device on record.
Kinect is an infrared camera add-on for Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console that allows it to track body movements. Its success was also because it helped drive game sales.
Gaz Davies, editor of Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer's Edition, said: "We can confirm that no other consumer electronics device sold faster within a 60-day time span, an incredible achievement considering the strength of the sector."
Kinect is a controller-free gaming system that competes with the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 Move. "The sales figures here speak for themselves," said Gaz Deaves. It took the Nintendo Wii about two years to pass the 10 million sales mark.
Guinness also said that that Kinect sales have even eclipsed "both the iPhone and the iPad for the equivalent periods after launch."
The combination of sensors, quality of the camera, and baked-in machine-learning made Kinect one of the most affordably priced devices for portable 3D scanning applications available.
Microsoft discontinued its production as of October 2017.