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This is surely one of the most ridiculous fanboy beliefs that exist, i.e. that the XBox does badly outside of America because Microsoft is an American company. People do not base their day to day purchasing decisions on international politics.

@Burgles

I'm sorry but there is not the least bit of truth in that at all. American culture is already so far integrated into people's lives over here that even if they all shared your distaste of the Iraq war (and of course most are simply indifferent) it would not begin to have an effect on their buying habits. George Bush is still in the White House and yet we see heavy American influences and imports everywhere: Films, television, music, clothing, even the recent proliferation of coffee shops on every street in our major cities. Why would the XBox brand be specially targeted? Politics of this nature has had no effect whatsoever on purchasing patterns and neither will it.