PS4 and ONE. The wisdom of 33 countries versus 13.

[DonFerrari]

binary solo said:

DonFerrari said:

binary solo said:
How do people even keep track of these threads to necro them?

Anyway the fundamental premise of this thread was wrong. MS didn't restrict itself to 13 markets at launch for supply issues or as a sales strategy. They were restricted because of language localisation issues with Kinect. They had no time to Getkinect ready for all languages in current 360 markets, and as Kinect used to be core to what Xb one was meant to be they had to phase in launch according to language readiness. There was no cunning strategy to out supply PS4 in the key US and UK markets, so there was no actual wisdom to analyse. The wisdom to judge is whether it was wise to make Kinect a core element of Xb one, and we all now know the answer to that question, which is a resounding NO!

How would kinect localization explain that the console was released in August but was Tier 2 in Chile? Or France/Italy/Germany Tier 1 but Belgium and Switzerland Tier 2?

And have all the countries that it released now worked perfectly? And how about dekinected?

Chile = dialectic variation perhaps?

Belgium = Dutch, the richest bit of Belgium and the majority language by a considerable margin, can you imagine the gall of being told to use your Kinect in German of French for a Dutch-speaking Belgian?

Switzerland = dialectic variants of the 3 main languages maybe + Romansh(?)

Nope... altough there are variations in the Spanish or Castellaño in all latin america they are basically the same idiom (even more when is just basic commands), if you buy a movie subtitled there is just one Spanish option not 20-30... so they could release in whole America Continent with 3 languages (except French for Haiti and French Guiana, Dutch for Suriname).

Belgium, ok could be a reason.

Switzerland already explained that it wasn't...

And going by the link provided to you that you said Ireland and Austria would be english and pure german... it's saying Kinect wouldn't work there... and NZ altough not very big is a market that have a good marketshare on Xbox.

The real reason for tier 2 wasn't kinect localization nor small marketplace, but just Xbox not being strong against PS there... I remember seeing that Tier1 represented like 85%+ of X360 sales last gen.