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slowmo on 11 January 2012
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Kai Master said:

To me, 360 was greatly boosted by nationalism from US and UK, if it weren't an American console it would have performed less well and PS3 better. But Japanese do the same, they favor Japanese consoles.
Americans are back in the race for the first time since Atari 2600's success in the 70/80's. And America weight more than Japan. In the future I think if Microsoft don't make a big mistake it will lead VG industry for long.


Obviously, must be why the original Xbox decimated the PS2 in the US and UK.....

People buy the console that offers them what they want, for whatever reason a lot of people in the UK and US didn't see what they wanted in the PS3 and for me it was a combination of value for money (early on), lack of any killer title pre Uncharted (MGS4 was a good game but not a long term system seller), less social online experience.  I think those three items contributed to a very large number of peoples buying decisions and it was only in 2009 the PS3 truly started competing on those fronts.