Xbox In China: More Grey Than Green

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DJEVOLVE said:

vivster said:

DJEVOLVE said:

vivster said:
Welcome to console manufacturer hell. A country full of PC master race and mobile casuals.

More like slave labor. Most can't even afford the console even if they wanted it.

Yes. But the minority who can afford them is bigger than the entire population of most countries.

Yes and most of them already own a computer. They gave up on consoles. However from what it looks like Xbox one did pretty good. These artcle's always give me a laugh. This says absolutely nothing, always gives us zero insight. It's like my telling you the weather in chicago and your expecting the same in LA. Or me telling you my cousin heard from his cousin that his sister got some info from the neighbor, that will help me with potato.

As far as whether it did 'well,' the concept is a bit relative, and the interesting thing about the situation in China is there really is no, to my knowledge, frame of reference. Other markets, you can always compare to the competition in the region, compare to the performance of the predecessors in the region, etc, etc, to at least get some idea whether 'x' number represents the device tapping into the full, or most, or just a little of the available market. For example, the Xbox One is viewed as extremely competitive in the U.S., and pretty much dead in Japan, not simply because of its raw numbers, but because of how they compare to the PS4, or the Xbox 360.

Given China hasn't had official (and therefore officially tracked,) consoles in well over a decade, the Xbox One might be doing super, duper well, better than Sony or Nintendo will ever do when they eventually stop dragging their heels, or it might not. x.X Assuming we ever see some actual solid numbers come out of the region, something like what the U.S. and Japan uses to track hardware sales, it'll be interesting when the other two get there, so we can start seeing some context to the number.