The Xbox One is a MAJOR FLOP in mainland Europe (6,697 units sold post-price cut). We need to talk about this.

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maximrace said:

Xenostar said:

maximrace said:
Man some people seeing this as a personal victory is a new low. The talk about how European buyers are more neutral and only buy the superior PS product ( AKA Xbox One sucks) is even more false. Europe is less neutral than the US, most people here don't even know what an Xbox is and think a console is a Playstation. Most people won't even consider a Xbox allthough it has some great games with more to come. Playstation selling more has to do with the European mindset, not with how much better Playstation is than Xbox ( and that's your own perception, enough people think the contrary)

I agree some people are going to far in this thread, but the ratio has gone from 2:1 last gen to 8:1 this gen, so dont undersell it as European Mindset either. 

The only reason the 360 sold what it did in Europe was thanks to price ( and ps3 being so expensive) and an earlier release. Xbox 1 price is higher now so people buy their first option again, the Playstation. Combine that with far more agressive marketing ( and almost no X1 marketing) and you get this result

Bold - and the fact that it could be modded easily and cheaply to play pirated games.

Underlined - and most importantly, combine that with a significantly superior product, the fact you like to ignore.

 

Also, as to why people in Europe prefer PS over Xbox - don't forget that a big chunk of Europe didn't get Live until November 2010. MS was selling a console without online and was threatening to ban people trying to work around it and commit the awful crime of playing online. On the other hand you had Playstation with free online working in every single country... And still X360 sold better than XO is selling, cause all in all it was closer to PS3 than XO is to the PS4 in quality. And the market responds accordingly.