| sales2099 said: It is just that....how do you expect them to handle it differently....the console has US specific features and the conference is based in the US. Should they just not say it at all because it will upset the other countries? Is this about being politically correct? Please tell me how they should properly announce US specific features at a US conference without upsetting other countries fans. |
That "US-based conference" point just doesn't convince me. It's true that this 1-hour-show happened on US territory, but in practice that doesn't matter because the actual audience was worldwide. The audience right in the room may have been mostly americans, but those were just a few hundred, while thousands or maybe even millions of people from all over the world had been looking forward to that event and watched it via the Internet.
Now it's okay that a console offers features that are not available worldwide. But Microsoft was well aware of the fact that the audience was as international as it could be, and still, they were showing pretty much only features that were relevant to US customers. I just don't believe it would have been much different if the conference was on, say, Japanese territory. I think it was more of a fundamental problem: They simply didn't have many great new features to show that would make the international fans excited.
