How Microsoft showed it only cares about the US market

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Adinnieken said:

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areason said:

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areason said:
The US is Microsoft's best market, so i don't think they need to make the same effort their in order to get customers as in the rest of the world. Bad business decision by them.

wait so you actually think being at PAX would have been better business than being at comic con????

because beside that they are present to every major event this year on every major gaming continent...

once again Australia and PAX are completely irrelevant right now they'd be better off doing a sollow XB event in Qatar than australia

Not talking about pax or comic con, but speding 400 million on a deal with the nfl is a waste of money in a market where they already have very strong brand power compared to their compeition. 

You been comparing the madden sales for the last few years? That gap is shrinking and MS probably wants to be like it was in 2008 for instance.

I don't think the NFL deal has anything to do with Madden, to be honest.  The NFL watching/fantasy football playing crowd is not necessarily the same as the Madden crowd, but there is cross over.  Certainly.  Because of this you may see EA use the NFL deal to integrate Madden with your NFL Fantasy Football team so that you can manage your fantasy football team in Madden as well as play as that team in the game.  Which may be why Microsoft and EA are so chummy.

What I'm most surprised with is that Microsoft hasn't achieved such a deal with FIFA.  It'd be awesome to see a Fantasy Football where you could select players from regional football associations, and if you're good at your picks, have a team that goes national, and if you're really awesome a team that goes on to compete in FIFA.  Then again, keeping up with a FF team for four years would get tiresome.  Still.  To pick players from around the world that make it from a regional club, to their national club, and make it all the way to FIFA would be pretty damn impressive. 

well they could already have deals with the bundes ligua, the premier league, la ligua and prima division... I already play fantasy football with the premier league app/website

no need to go with the fifa... but they could work up something with the fifa for the world cup next year.... now that would be big.... imagine a three way deal between MS the FIFA and EA... for broadcasting rights on FIFA XBox app (with a fee I don't care but have it there at least) a FIFA world cup game and a fantasy football app conbo... now that would be great... same thing with the UEFA and the euro cup next :D