Xbox One Tier 2 Countries Will Give the Console a Large Boost!

[Teeqoz]

S.Peelman said:

Teeqoz said:

chocoloco said:

Good , a stable, or growing population is healthy for a country. All is good. I joke here a lot.

Well, it certainly depends. As illustrated by our GDP per capita we have the resources to sustain growth for quite a while, but other countries (such as China, though that is an extreme example) would benefit from a lower/decreasing population.

(Not directly aimed at quoted post, rather the conversation)

That Tier 1 / Tier 2 story is just how Microsoft handles the XBox One launch, not something that's set in stone somewhere. It has nothing to do with GDP or population, just how much product they sell in those countries in absolute numbers. The countries they call 'Tier 1' are simply the countries they sell the most stuff. The European countries in the so-called Tier 2 are just there because they seem to care even less about XBox than the rest, so they're less important to Microsoft because they only sell maybe a couple dozen consoles each week there. Same for Japan being 'Tier 2', which is obviously a big videogame market for anyone else.

Yes, we established that in the second post of the conversation