Opinions: The Primary Reason For Microsoft's Focus On Media Entertainment

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Adinnieken said:

chapset said:

Adinnieken said:

The primary reason Microsoft focused so heavily on media entertainment wasn't to win the living room, but China.  With China's policy against gaming consoles, pushing the Xbox One as a media/communications hub will allow it to more easily gain access to that market.

With access to China's 1.3 billion people, it'll give Microsoft access to the largest consumer market in the world.  Because of this, Sony will not only answer Microsoft, but follow them.   

The xbone and ps4 will be too expensive for 80% of the chinese population and Kinect will most likely not work there for years the same for all those xbox tv apps

China, why wouldn't it work there?  There are over 6500 channels in the US between digital, non-digital over-the-air, and cable channels.  There are approximately 3,000 in China.  I think if Microsoft can figure out the US, it can figure out China.

Kinect doesn't work in most non english speaking countries for starters, I don't even know how many cable providers there is in China but Microsoft will have to strike a deal with all the important ones for it to be able to reach an important portion of the population, the majority of the chinese don't make enough money to be able to afford the xbone or ps4, roughly 50% of the population has access to the internet which is not as fast as the Internet you get in the States. There is a lot of infrastucture and logistic problems Microsoft will have to face to be able to give them access to the services the US consumers will have at launch. Also we don't even know if they will be able to sell their console in China, the xbox 360 didn't realease there.