Agreed with all of the above haggling on Wii U Vs XBOX ONE.
How about a simpler way to put it
So far in 2015 - XONE has sold about 1.55 million - over 40% of that is from the UK. Outside of the UK XONE sales are about 15% ahead of Wii U (ballpark). In France and Germany the situation appears to be competitive between the 2 systems.
Given that the Wii U has the stink of failure hanging so heavily over it (I own one and I love it BTW so please don't take my description of the market sentiment as a flame) - its not a great place for X1 to be. XONE needs the UK quite badly otherwise it essentially becomes a US only console.
Given all of that - MS is VERY good at keeping a console fresh over the long term (product development, price cuts, marketing support etc). I'm pretty sure they will finish this gen with a better geographical spread of sales than what it looks like now.
Erm..... except Japan of course. God bless their results in Japan. I'm not sure WHAT they could have done there to succeed apart from give it away. Public sentiment there was against them from the start. Good on them for trying though.
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