America's up!

[postofficebuddy]

AussieGecko said:

postofficebuddy said:

For all intents and purposes 360 is nearing death in continental Europe. Nothing that MS has done has had any sort of major long-term affect on sales in that region. 360 was basically firing on all cylinders last year and going absolute gangbusters in the UK, but for the entirety of Europe it only topped PS3 5 times, and 3 of those times it was basically a tie.

I mean the fact that it's pulling numbers in Americas comparable to the Wii back in 2008 and still basically only tying the competition should show how sad the situation has gotten for the 360 in EMEAA.

um what major release should have benefitted 360 apart from kinect.... just asking...

Dead space is also on ps3 and as Sony is the stronger brand in Europe that would have been favoured. I really don't know why people think multi plats bar COD should push sooo many consoles. It just doesnt make any sense why it would.

Slim, Reach, Kinect, new bundles (Forza/Alan Wake). It's not the fact that it's pulling bad numbers ATM, just that it's pulling below average numbers after all of that. As I pointed out above Kinect has propelled 360 to Wii 2008-like numbers in Americas. It's probably having a bigger impact than a $100 price cut would have had. Whereas in EU it hasn't really had any impact. Look at past history, when a console is nearing the end of its life-cycle almost nothing has any long term impact. When both PS2 an Gamecube went to $99 there was a brief surge in sales and then they dropped off back to previous levels and continued to fall. The exact same thing happened with DS last year after its price cut.