white devil on 26 August 2007
| tk1797 said: To win this generation Microsoft needs Japan. 360 is comparable to the sega genesis in a sense. Both consoles sold better than the competition in North America but in Japan they sold like crap. This gave the competition an opportunity to build its userbase and that eventually lead to the competition winning the console war. I know i'm not discussing variables such as sales in Europe but I have no clue how well the 360 or Genesis did there. |
360 is slightly north of 3 million in Europe, and seems to be more popular in the UK and northern Europe (though still getting decimated by the Wii overall). The Genesis I believe was the first really successful console in Europe, followed by the 2 Playstations (which is why people thought the PS3 would be more successful there, since Playstation is really the brand that gave rise to gaming there and the Game Cube bombed, with the Xbox only doing slightly better).
