Global Hardware 29 December 2018

[Clank]

colafitte said:

Clank said:

I guess xbox and 360 were really popular there so they focused on those countries, ads, kind of games... Even the 360 was not that big outside those countries (of course more than XONE). Maybe Kinect and other games made it more popular in the European market, but imo the public they gained was also due to ps3 high price during its firsts years and not very "loyal", when they saw ps4 was more powerful and cheaper they didn't doubt. In my case in Spain 2 or 3 friends had 360 but they bought ps4 after that.

As a Spanish too, we are the least surprised about XBO doing bad, but I did not expected such decline in other countries... 

In my opinion it was ps3 high price that helped xbox360 grow in european market. I remember the price was like 500e (not sure) compared 200 for ps2. Also high price of xbox one with kinect just killed the few options of the console here.

 

I also remember how at least here xbox 360 got rly popular to play cod games bc of the better and faster controls (just an anecdote).

 

Still its just a theory, its gonna be hard since ps ips are really big in europe but I hope Microsoft can do better next gen and show a bit of competition... Also curious about nintendo since home consoles dont do extremely well in EU (compared to other markets) but handhelds do so idk about switch haha