sales2099 said:
Having 50+ more countries and a better global brand identity helps too ;) |
More global brand awareness helps for sure. I think it's related to the fact that Sega was strong on the EU and it made easy for Sony to grab the mindshare there with the PS1 and keep it. Japan is another problem for MS, but I think it isn't worth any marketing effort because I don't think it would be effective (while in the EU they could do it for good results). They are too much focused on the UK while they should spread their efforts.
About more countries, not that much. US, Germany, France, Japan and UK get the majority of sales and X1 is in all of them except Japan (that isn't much of a difference maker for MS). PS4 this week sold 111K with 101K being on the major regions while X1 sold 44K with 40K on these regions. So the rest of the world is a big difference maker. Of course, the remaining EU countries are another history, but X1 already is on the big ones so I think the other countries wouldn't help in more than 10%. The price cut will help much more.
But to be honest, if I bought a X1, I would get the US$ 500 model with Kinect. I think it's a good value to get Kinect for US$ 100 and it probably will have some interesting games like on X360. I bought the Move and the Sharpshooter for the PS3 for much more and enjoyed it on games that supported them. People are being too harsh on peripherals wanting support on all games and things like that. One or two fun titles that are made for it already are worth the purchase.
