FIFA 14 will come with every Xbox One in Europe, no matter what edition

[Scisca]

kowenicki said:

Scisca said:

kowenicki said:

Scisca said:

kowenicki said:

Scisca said:
This potentially could do something for XO, if it, you know, was released in Europe at all..

its out in all the big markets in Europe.

markets which between them represent over 75% of all xbox European sales.

I know it will be released in the UK. I was talking about Europe.

So was I

UK, France, Germany and others account for 75% of xbox sales.

the markets were it isnt releasing give less sales to the 360 than the ps3 has in japan... where PS4 isnt releasing.

Take UK out of it. I wonder what % of X360s were sold in just those couple of countries of the continental Europe. I know these are pretty much the biggest markets, not all big markets though and not all rich ones either and this will surely hurt XO. Still, knowing how big FIFA is in Europe I wonder if the exclusive content (primarily) and this (though it won't probably matter that much) will allow MS to steal a bit of the audience from Playstation, since at the moment FIFA = Playstation.

25% of Euro 360's are in the UK, but that just emphasises my point even more.  Xbox are going large where they are strongest first.

Not going large. They are only going there. At the same time leaving many big, rich and all the rapidly developing European markets totally to Sony, losing everything they have managed to gain this gen. I think that this will also influence the sales in the supported countries, cause people will know it will be easier to find people online on a PS4 than on a XO and that their friends abroad will only be able to get a PS4. The only thing they have going for them is this FIFA deal, wonder how much it can do.

I also wonder how many local MS offices have said in which tier their country is and how is that going to influence the sales. MS Poland has said Poland was tier 6, but went a bit up after the 180 as is a tier 4 now. I guess they thought telling that would make people happier, but actually everyone here is pissed at MS for that and it didn't make anything better ;)