| disolitude said: A good generalization. I believe you are correct here. However someone needs to make another thread analyzing why 360 doesn't have the damand that ps3 has in Europe when its clearly a better gaming console at the moment and it costs much less. I guess bluray may be a big thing in Europe... |
Well, that's not the point, at least in my country, Spain. I'll try to explain the situation here a bit. Consoles are called playstations or Plays here, that could sum up what's happening. General public doesn't even know what xbox is. Price cuts and some ads like Gears of war or Gta IV have helped, but the consumers of 360 are gamers or pirates till the last price cut at least. In general, people worship Sony and the Playstation because of Pro evolution, Buzz and Singstar. Of course, there's a lot of people who also loves Final Fantasy, MGS, God of War or GT.
The principal reason to buy a PS3 is the Playstation name, most people won't be able to tell the differences between PS3 or 360, if you are lucky they'll talk about blu ray (although movies are dowloaded massively with P2P) or chip cell and they'll consider 360 an inferior product, not only because the price is lower but also because it's not called Playstation. Most people won't know what games are on 360 or how the graphics or online are. It's strange how people worship brands here, but rest assured that if you get a foothold with your brand, people will stick to it no matter what. It's not a surprise that Sony treats us like shit, they do what they want and they continue selling. If PS3 is pirated in the future, expect massive sales without needing to lower the price.
Even the most hardcore gamers will buy a PS3, although lots of them say they have it collecting dust, they buy very very few games and only play 360. RROD has only increased the feeling of inferior product between gamers. Lately there have been lots of reports of PS3s stopping reading blu ray discs and people having to wait between 1-3 monts to get their consoles back. Sony technical service is infamous here, but I don't think the problem is enough widespread to affect the Playstation brand image. Sony zealots are so common here that in this forum I feel like at home :)
With that situation in mind, you can understand that the 360 price cut will have limited effects here.
