SALES HARDWARE GERMANY : wii outsold 360

[Yuk04]

I think that Microsoft's problem is that it considered Europe as a whole country, like if it were trying to sell the console to the States.

The Xbox 360 is a very good console, great lineup and an incredible online infrastructure but, you can't approach Spanish customers the same way as the Dutch ones, they are very different for so many reasons that you need to focus in a very different way for each one.

I think that the major problem is that the regular customer (the ones that would never visit a website like this one and just plays ProEvo and GTA) sees the 360 as a computer that gets plugged to the TV, and that you have to pay to play. Which of course is wrong but, that's the problem, Microsoft needs to teach people that the 360 is a console, like the PlayStation or the Nintendo (whichever iteration) to make sure that people would even consider having one on the leaving room.

And one of the reasons why the Wii is outselling the PS3 and the 360, apart from price, is tha tthe general customer, doesn't want to get an HD telly because then, everything that they plug looks worse. This is true, the general customer isn't aware of things like composite, component, HDMI and such, for them those are the tv that make things look worse.

A fascinating fact!

On the everybody votes channel, the last world poll was, do you have a wide screen tv?

And the answer was 51% no, 49% yes.

Useless to say that not everyone votes on the Wii channel but, nevertheless it has its veracity.

So if just the 49% of the world (Wii owners Channel users) has a wide screen tv, that means that just probably half of it has an HD tv.

I've got a wide screen tv but not HD.

Therefore the interest in purchasing a PS3 or 360 is not that big, as without an HD tv you wouldn't notice the real difference between the three consoles.