i cant speak for all of europe but germany is a pc nation ..the pc sector gets the most attention and consoles are regarded to be for kids
the playstation has.. established istelf mostly through games like fifa and any kind of racing simulation ..formula 1 preferably on one side and things like sing star buzz and the eyetoy and thats the foundation from the past two gens is what the ps3 is living from although people are starting to get disappointed ..but if you consider that the ps3 is considered a success in germany even though it only sold 1 million consoles with a potential 20-30 million customers show how little support consoles get over here
even more so with a company like microsoft that isnt that long in console market
the xbox is regarded as something of a bare bone pc .and the common notion is that whatever exclusives it has to offer will be avaiable for the pc sooner or later
another problem is that ..since most of us use computers for games.. is that it is a microsoft console .. i know its common to hate microsoft and curse it for forcing us to use "broken" operating systems .. but you cant imagine how severe that is in germany everyone complains about microsoft and even things have improved alot since win 98 everyone is a self proclaimed expert and scoffs at vistas hunger for ram.. xps attemts to spy on you and so forth
so the bottom line is people think" why should we buy their console when we have to use their shit on pc already"
please this is no attempt to bash the 360 nor attempt at trolling i just want you to give some insight in the consumer behaviour of everybodys war mongering barbarians ;)
wether or not you think those arguments are valid or not , they do exist
