The 360 was dead last worldwide. Is MS in trouble?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Lyrikalstylez said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

AussieGecko said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Just after MS put almost all its eggs in the casual motion control basket, Nintendo declares it's going to become a concluded experience. MS wasn't in trouble until yesterday, now it is.

just because wii will have a new console doesnt mean kinect wont be developed for..

If a >80M user base can't persuade 3rd parties, what can one that at best will be 16M by this year's end? Yes there are 1st parties, but that's a field in which Nintendo is incredibly stronger than MS. Add that 3DS and NGP will get all the attention, hype and thunder available next Xmas, and Wii2 will do it next year, the result is that whatever isn't already strong will suffer. But maybe you mean just in USA, UK and Australia, not WW: in that case, I agree with you, MS isn't in trouble there, the huge marketing campaign worked at its best in those countries. But elsewhere it was appalling, with appallling results, even a mildly successful new home console by Nintendo will blow Kinect away from the countries where it's already struggling.

Thats not true, your forget that The worlds economy is horrible at the moment...if theres no money for people to waste, no consoles will be sold, even for a nintendo console. The reason why 360 is selling better in America is because of the cheap price. so Why release a new $300 console now? Its Not Logical o_0 ...........just my opinion

As I wrote, marketing and games line-up for Kinect worked hugely better in USA, UK and other English speaking countries then anywhere else. EU price, sales tax included, for PS3, 300€ is quite more than just converting $300 to Euros and adding VAT, nevertheless PS3 here sells more than XB360, and currently more than Wii too. And don't forget Ninty announced Wii2 now, but it will launch it next year, sometime after April, when Wii and PS3 will be at least 5 yrs and a half old and XB360 6yrs and a half, the market shoul start being mature for a new gen, although it makes sense too that MS and Sony wait some more time. So the trouble, if there will be any (it's not even sure), will be as usual asymmetric for MS, as its success is asymmetric, with XB360 and Kinect being very successful in North America and UK, 360 doing decently in Europe and struggling in Japan and finally Kinect struggling in Europe and being almost inexistent in Japan. The issue is simple: 360 sales are more asymmetric than Wii and PS3 ones, so you get a different picture depending on where you look at if from. Just to see better the difference for Kinect: it just got new, intensive (but really horrible, it's unwatchable) advertising and Michael Jackson game in Europe too, yet Kinect sales rose by just 6k across the whole EMEAA, while the same things allowed it a great leap forward in America.