Jim Ryan: PS4 has 70%-90% market share in Europe

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Burek said:

JRPGfan said:
European market is big,... like as big or bigger than the american one.
Always good to have a big market, and have a 90% marketshare there.

MS need to do something drastic to take back market share in europe, its too big a market to just let it slip away.

Well, X360 did decently in these parts, but there was only one reason: Piracy.

It was a miracle to find a non-modded console, and the original game sales were probably counted on one hand.

And it is not even illegal, official stores advertise them freely. Like this:

http://sophoslab.hr/modifikacije-i-servis/86/x360-ixtreme-firmware-lt-30-ltu-12-update-firmware-a/5340.html

And many more...

 

If XOne decides to let modders in and pirate games, I'm sure the sales will pick up. But now, there is nothing MS can do...

I always thought that one of the things that these companies could do was to free the online multiplayer from their subscription services. If MS does that it would get a lot of good publicity and could compete once again at the eyes that don't want the subscriptions. If Sony did that, they would throw MS away from the european and japanese markets, and probably in the US too.