Xbox not helped by it's "ethnicity"

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fkusumot said:

Grey Acumen said:
Why is it that through this thread, no one has actually mentioned that this is not Ethnicity, but Nationality?

+1 to Grey Acumen for finally correcting that.

It's not unheard of for a product to be shunned because of the country of origin. A ways back, and even now in some places, it was looked down upon in America to own a foreign car (especially Japanese made).
That type of behavior aside, Microsoft's biggest image problem isn't that they're an American company, it's that they are viewed by many as the monopoly seeking Microsoft. One group that has this view is the many courts of law that have ruled against it in anti-competitive lawsuits brought by organizations like the EU.

 Most Japanese wont buy Xbox or American cars because they are highly xenophobic. They also hate Korea, etc. Korea buys all Xbox and no PS3 because Korea hates Japan fiercely. China also will not buy Japan cars, only GM cars froim America, because China also hates Japan.

 

A good example is Uncharted for PS3, which was huge, huge bomb in Japan. Japanese never buy western games, they are biased. It is funny thatr Uncharted sold almost nothing in Japan though. 

 

Everybody knows the Japanese are so biased. On the 1upyours show they said one time a company tried to trick the Japanese by making a fake Japanese producer for an European game, and putting him in advertisements. It is pretty sad that people know the Japanese are this way.

 

That is why so many western Sony games are huge, huge bombs in Japan. Little Big Planet is already expected to be a huge bomb in Japan, since it is Western.