| kitler53 said: @those saying xbone is already released in many of these countries: that may be true but i think you underestimate xbone there. i personally think there is a difference between being able to be purchased and being officially launched, officially advertised, and officially supported. a guy that lives in poland but doesn't speak english, french, or any of the other officially supported laungues are very unlikely to get an xbone even if it is aquirable. once it is officially supported i'm certain there will be an increase in these regions. |
Of course there will be an uptick once it is officially launched, the question of this thread is how much.
See, While Microsoft isn't doing advertising, retailers are, and for a lot of these countries the supported languages isn't an issue - either because the XB1 is launched in a country with the same language as theirs, or in the case of Scandinavia at least, the majority of users prefer to keep the system set to a different language than their own. It is also indicative of final demand that the machine can not be sold for a massive markup in the countries where it is only avalable on import.
I realize that these are sizes that are very difficult to incorporate in a calculation without having a lot of hard-to-find data, so I appreciate this thread for what it is.
