UK & Xbox 360

[psrock]

CGI-Quality said:

psrock said:

CGI-Quality said:

The 360 holds a firm grip there, as it does here in the States. What makes it even more impressive is when you consider the original Xbox's position before it, had hardly anything to brag about. Microsoft has made the necessary headway this time around.

The 360 has  no grip , none in the UK. The Wii is  the leading console there with the 360 behind it. The advantage the 360 has over seems to be a fair amount of discouted pricing which blows all the others away.

It like saying France is PS3 nation because it's currently outselling the Wii which is nonesense.

I will give it to you: The 360 does very well in UK better than anywhere else other than the US, but that's just 2 places.

I understand that bit Rock, but let's look at it from another angle: the PlayStation and Nintendo brands are far more powerful worldwide. Taking this into consideration, particularly considering Sony's position in the UK throughout the PS1/PS2's lives, the 360 being able to keep ahead of the PS3 for so long there is impressive, at least on that front. I mean sure, Sony made numerous mistakes this gen that have been costly to their overall success, and the two places that they've fumbled the hardest seems to be the two places where they can't keep up with the 360: UK & US.

It's impressive for the 360 and Xbox brand that it's been able to penetrate any markets considering one of those factors (the original Xbox's rep). Of course I excluded the Wii, as it's too far ahead for any type of logical comparison here. The victory for the 360 in the UK (and in the US in the same breath) is over Sony and PS brand. That's what they set out to do.

The rest of the world, no, the PlayStation is beating it and quite handily in some markets, which IMO, isn't too shocking. I'm just giving it some credit for being able to pull out any kind of victory outside of the many EU markets and Japan, where Sony will likely always dominate them.

I agree you on the whole Playsation area, but Seece was using the Wii, not the PS3 to show how the 360 has somehow become the console of choice in the UK. I disagree because the 360 outselling the Wii has more to do with major discounts in that country which the 360 gets versus all the other consoles.