| pokoko said: Xbox is still a brand with value in North America. The people where I work only talk about "playing Xbox". It's not like it's irredeemable. When I remarked on my workplace being Xbox-land, my co-worker said, "Playstation is mostly just sports games." I'm not making that up. When I said something about Playstation having a lot of Japanese games, he just looked at me in confusion. He was probably thinking, "how could I play a game in Japanese, you idiot." Anyway, that aside, Xbox is another gateway to Microsoft's ecosystem and they're not going to drop it anytime soon. |
in all seriousness the Xbox brand is incredible danger at the moment because it doesn't really have much of anything beyond Halo that people distinguish it by
your coworkers are the exception. If there's any one particular reason the Xbox still sells fairly well in the USA, it's because a lot of people in the States are going to feel automatically obligated to buy the system because it's A) from an American company and B) from an American company named Microsoft
the Microsoft name is why the Xbox brand sells at this point, bear in mind the Windows OS is the vast majority of computers worldwide still so it pulls a strong weight to casual consumers picking up a system.
but for merits on its own, outside of it's parent being an American giant corporation, I'm not sure what the Xbox has these days
seems suicidal to me that Microsoft would make the decision to put hypothetically huge system sellers like Minecraft on the PC and multiplat, but what do I know. The team at Xbox still seems focused on some sort of end goal of bringing the Xbox closer to the computer market, probably in some long term ploy to make video gaming get more connected with Windows (which in all honestly is the company's bread and butter for making money, that and it's other PC software and programs)
