DonFerrari on 30 April 2015
ArchangelMadzz said:
Ka-pi96 said:
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It's a bit different in all of those countries, they're interested but they're just small and you get what is expected.
In japan not only are they not interested but it's a huge territory, lots of retailers to organise distribution for a decent sized country.
Selling 1 console in a sample of 100 people is better than selling 1 console in a sample of 10,000 people.
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Some of those countries I listed are huge territories as well, in some cases significantly larger than Japan is.
Do you mean to say the video game market is smaller in those countries? Is it though? Only if you are looking at the total market, what if you only look at the potential Xbox/PS4 market though? They'd be about the same wouldn't they. Hence if it makes sense for PS4 to release in those countries despite it being almost guaranteed the sales will be significantly lower than elsewhere then it would also make sense for the Xbox One to release in Japan.
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I'm not talking about land mass or squara miles, I'm talking about videogame market. If any of those countries were a bigger than/similar territory to Japan it would be known.
We know the potential market, Japan alone can allow for consoles to sell millions, even 10's millions. If your console is selling 200/w in a market like that of course people are going to ask why they're even there.
If you can sell millions to over 10/20/30 million in Nigeria and only sell 200 weekly then I'd say the exact same thing.
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A sale is a sale... so unless MS is losing serious money selling on Japan they shouldn't stop... and also they are trying to keep support there and have some japaneses games released that could interest people in other regions... I rather have a company losing money by giving good support to my gaming needs than a company only collecting money playing safe.
