*Will Microsoft ever have the best selling console in a generation?*

[Squilliam]

RolStoppable said:

Squilliam said:

RolStoppable said:
As long as they keep doing all of their market research on internet message boards and call their system "Xbox", no. There's a reason why Microsoft only found success in English speaking countries so far.

Because they only read english speaking countries' message boards?

Yes, America is the world.

Forum goers seem to be very satisfied with what Microsoft has done this generation and then there's the thing that you rarely see negative articles about anything 360 in the gaming media. Pretty much anything negative comes from bloggers these days while we still see regularly editorials from major gaming websites about Sony's and Nintendo's shortcomings.

It looks like Microsoft has yet to figure out how they can expand this kind of stranglehold into non-English speaking territories.

They are an American company, they do best within cultures which are similar to their own. That means they do best in America and they do worst in Japan. As most English editorials come out of the U.S.A. or the U.K. and these are their strongest markets it makes sense that they are mostly positive towards them.

Well they seem to be doing alright in Europe. Not fantastic, but good enough to keep a foothold there and better than Sony is doing in the U.S.A. relative to them. Noone compares to the Wii of course which is doing fantastic in Europe.