Krill said:
a) If that was the case, why bother releasing it in other countries; according to you Amazon has it covered. All these bricks and mortar game stores must be fighting over the scraps. Applying your logic, when the XBox One does officially launch in the other European countries sales will be very, very low as anyone who wanted one will already have ordered it from Amazon.de or one of the others you listed. Really? b) I would not buy an item costing that much from another country when it may arrive damaged or develop a fault, c) when i know it will be released in my country at a later date. Yes, you could arrange to send it back but there is added hassle. I think I am in the majority. |
a) notice that I wrote "must have" people. And yes, I do not expect much higher numbers than the average expected from "NON must have" people. Those "non must have people" are the ones that are waiting for official release (although, like in X360's case, several countries might never see an official release at all - still they have their MediaMarkt equivalents selling X360s...)
b) depending on country, you can save a sh"tton of money going Amazon. Switzerland is an extreme example, since you can save (using msrp values) roughly $150. That is why there are plenty of XBox One owners right now in Switzerland..
c) umpteen thousands of people ordered on Amazon.us. Obviously you are in a small minority concerning this argument.
