| mrstickball said: Actually..... This is about the same deal that Microsoft offered last year with the Blue Dragon pack-in. Now it just includes the other 2 bundled holiday games. Alt, I would agree the competitors (Sony, Ninty) have the brand appeal of being more "Japanese oriented", but to change that, all it takes is games. Lost Odyssey is a Japanese product, and will be seen as such, and increase sales. At any rate, this will definately help Microsoft out. It's not going to make it competitive Vs. the Wii, but could attempt to match the PS3. And considering at the beginning of this generation, the X360 was poised to sell vastly worse than the Xbox, this is a great new, stronger trend. IMO, I'm still sticking with 40-50k h/w units sold on the week of December 6th. |
I agree with your statement that the essence of the brand will be in the games. But I also think that for every dollar of revenue that Sony or Nintendo brings in for Japan, MS will have to spend 2X's as much simply because their japanese development teams are little more than paper organizations at this point. Costs are always a lot higher when you are starting up and growing a development ( a new factory, new product, new business, etc) than what you would find when you are just coasting along like the other two are. MS doesn't really have a chance to grow unless it puts more of its budget towards japan which I think would be a pretty bad idea, b/c it would take away money that would have gone to NA which has been their meal ticket thus far.
