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crissindahouse on 31 December 2012
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VGKing said:
crissindahouse said:
pezus said:
Nsanity said:
crissindahouse said:

i'm pretty sure we had exactly that topic last month. i said it is not possible to talk about that because microsoft would have changed the strategy then (and sony as well). maybe we would have seen a cheaper 360, maybe earlier price reductions, maybe microsoft would have invetsed more in advertisment for europe or like 100 more possibilities.

The same topic pops up every month.

No, it really doesn't. All this tells me is hardly anyone reads the OP thoroughly. Please show me one recent thread talking about this

yeah but in the end it's always "if something would have been different, what would have happened then " and the asnwer to all of this is that we don't know it.

i have no clue how advertisement was for the 360 christmas 2006 but maybe microsoft would have done much more with a ps3 release to counter it. if microsoft would have sold more then in the earlier years maybe it would be also bigger in europe now, who knows...

A PS3 coming off the success of the PS2 would have obliterated the XBox 360 no matter how much advertising Microsoft did. Microsoft wouldn't have sold more since not only did they have supply issues but the PS3 would have been the HD leader. What makes you think 360 would have been bigger in Europe? 

one reason obviously advertisement, otherwise i wouldn't mention it for the 360. people always complain about the weak sony advertisement but at least in germany they are way better as microsoft for their consoles. much more ads (microsoft most of the time only for christmas, sony the whole year) and much better ads in my opinion. and with their aggressive advertisement in football (champions league main sponsor, plenty of ads in every "bundesliga" game) they are the leader for one of the most favourite games and the leader for the game many people buy a console for here in my country.

i'm not saying microsoft would sell more or as much as sony but they could compete better with more advertisement in germany and probably rest of europe. and nobody has to tell me adverstiement doesn't change anything, if that would be the case companies wouldn't pay billions for it.

do you know which ads i saw this christmas for ps3 and 360?

ps3: psabr, wonderbook, need for speed, asscreed, fifa and some more....

xbox: halo (and a stupid ad without gameplay or anything) (edit: i also saw resident evil ads for only one console, i am not sure but it could have been the 360)

that wasn't just this year, it is like this since the consoles are out, in my opinion microsoft fails hard with xbox advertisement in germany.

and not sure which supply issues you are talkng about but one year after the release of the 360 i didn't see much supply issues in german retail, maybe uk. but if you want to talk about supply issues, if sony would have released the console the same time worldwide including europe they would have had less consoles for other markets and with that a weaker first holiday outside of europe. so with that logic they would be maybe stronger in europe nowadays but weaker in usa as they already are. earlier release in europe = less produced consoles for america.