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AlfredoTurkey on 11 January 2015
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thismeintiel said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
OttoniBastos said:
Predictable! I fucking call it! X360 with all the advantages it had(price point,1 year alone,better image) lost for PS3 even in the darkest days of "PS3 has no gaemz".Xbox brand is irrelevant outside USA/UK.MS knows that and that's why they didn't bother doing the same holiday deals over there.

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numbers don't lie! just look at it!


Xbox is the Genesis and PS is the SNES. Sega and the Genesis brand actually beat Nintendo in the US. Most people don't even know that. The Xbox 360 beat Wii and PS3 in the US as well, but lost world wide.

Personally, I find it interesting that one console can be so popular (Genesis/Xbox) in one country and so unpopular everywhere else.

Well, unlike the Genesis, the XBO doesn't seem to be poised to win in the US.  As soon as the XBO went back up to $399, the PS4 has been outselling it on every site's online Bestsellers list.  Actually, Amazon is the only place the XBO is cheaper than $399 (the price has been jumping around a lot, from ~$369-$389, and is currently $384), yet the PS4 is a full 19 spots ahead of it for the past hour, and the XBO seems to be continuing its drop in the charts.  Basically, the only way the XBO is possibly going to win the US or UK, is if it is $50/£35 cheaper than the PS4 AND has a game or three thrown in.  And MS is just not prepared to throw that much money at it, just for it to win by a few million in those two terroritories.

 

I don't know. It's probably best to wait for actual sales figures are released. Bestsellers lists have been wrong before and plus, those are online retailers. Most people buy consoles in stores.