China’s Xbox One and games will be totally region locked

[Tamron]

binary solo said:

Tamron said:

Online retail prices in mainland china, as well as in-store prices for preorders in china, too.

I should probably use this moment to state that while I live in Japan, I work for a company based in China designing and manufacturing PC, Console and mobile addons/accessories. so I am in mainland china and around HK a lot.

Prices across china are more or less the same as the prices in the US, and for virtually all hk/china residents, that's what actually matters.

Lol MS marketing a "suggested" retail price to make it appear that games will be cheap.

I do wonder if there was a deliberate intent to initially mislead the market with all this "not locked" stuff and get people hyped, in the hope that people wouldn't notice when the opposite turns out to be true. THREAD HIJACK: kinda like the initial hype around EA Access dying down now that the reality of what you'll get for $30 a year has kicked in, and the implications of several publisher subscription passes is dawning on people. /THREAD HIJACK

Look at it for what it is, they already offer all of the games on xbox one as grey imports, even if Microsoft gives them a much lower RRP, it gives them two options:

1) make a loss on the current stock of grey imports by dropping the price to match, or..
2) bump up the price of locally released games to match the grey imports, preventing loss of investment on the imports while increasing profit of the locally sold games.

It doesn't take a PHD to guess which one they'll run with.