| kamil said: @StanGable: The right question should be how come Americans buy more X360's than Europeans. And the answer is: becouse X360 is an american console and people tend to buy products made by companies based in their countries. And this also answers why X360 has no chance in Japan: it can't compete with two consoles that are 'native' to Japanese. Europe is acutally the most neutral territory as there are no Europe-based console company there. About tastes: European like racing and footbal games much more than Americans which prefer shooters. However this isn't a problem as those kind of games are avalible on both platform with more shooters on X360. |
I would have to disagree with what you just said about the 360 being bought for being an American console. Just like Japan has their specific taste in gaming, 360 nailed the type of games that a lot of Americans want, that being FPS, thanks mainly to Halo. Based on the numbers on this website, the original Xbox sold only 16 million units here in America. Worldwide was around 22 million so only 6 million were sold in other countries. However, PS2 sold close to 45 million in the U.S. alone during the same generation so you can't assume that we only buy american made consoles. Again, there was a topic probably less than a month ago where it was explained by either a Japanese person or someone living in Japan that clarified the type of products japanese people buy. Among the most popular were American fast food chains, Ipods, clothing, etc.
So with this in mind seeing how the 360 offers basically the same games that PS3 offers in Europe, why is Europe more biased towards PS3? I'll reiterate, I feel that Europeans got screwed the most yet as of late there seems to be more demand for PS3.
