crissindahouse said:
i think they lost money there because they tried much to sell there with advertisement and collaborations which isn't the same in other countries with lower sales. i don't really believe the few million sold consoles (most of them with a loss per console because of much higher sales in the first years) and some games brang more revenue as they paid for all of that. but maybe they made more mprofit worldwide because they tried it in japan and got some japanese games but i think japan alone wasn't profitable. maybe that's what you meant and i didn't get it. but what i don't understand is what 007bondagent means, just because the 360 is selling less in japan as some years ago has to mean the nextbox can't sell better as the 360? makes no sense to me. nextbox could also sell much better the frist years as the years after and sell better on a weekly basis as the 360 did (or less or the same). was probably the same with xbox which sold better in the first year as the years after and 360 sold much more. |
I just said that simply launching a console in any country, even if it only sells 1m is surely not a mistake.
What MS did was optional and they surely didn't make as much money (if any) in Japan as in other countries with the same userbase.
(Though on the software site, it has a pretty good attach ratio compared to the other consoles.)
If they simply launch the 720 there without any kind of special advertisement or exclusive deals, I think any decent amount of hardware sales will be enough to justify it.
