| sales2099 said: This is me talking: they gonna sell more consoles Non UK Europe and Asia is PS territory. Always will be, the brand is too strong. If Series X beats PS5 on power and Lockhart beats it on price you have NA and UK on team Xbox but all that will do is make the PS5 lead smaller. The only way to win would be to sell a strict Xcloud box for streaming on ones TV. Such a product would be very cheap as it isn’t a full console experience but only what Xcloud offers. This would do wonders in markets Xbox falters in. But until then, I’m just enjoying Sony being the shy boy while I’m getting my news fix as a Xbox fan looking forward to a fresh gen and Halo Infinite. I mean....I’m surprised I’m even saying this. Sony is the top dog and now they shy away from a PR fight since the VGAs??? |
Its a misconception that UK is xbox land, I've been here since 2006 and the only time I saw xbox dominating here was with the first 3 years of 360, but by the end of the generation ps3 was the console to have.
Sure the difference is not as much as other countries, I'm from Portugal and ps sells at least 10:1 of xbox, just the same as back in the ps2 era.
The 360 was an anomaly because Microsoft launched 1 year earlier, and also the console was much cheaper, people wont care for 100 euros difference but the ps3 was 600 euros, the 360 launched at 300 euros, there was a ps3 at 500 euros with 20gb but it launched later (more than a year after the 360).
Even at double the price I believe ps3 would have outsold 360 at launch if they launched at the same time, and if the price matched, ps3 would have outsold the 360 10:1
With that said, Portugal is not a console market, most gamers I know have a PC, because lets be honest, back then, peoples wages were 500euros, so they couldn't afford 70 euros games. Most if not all gamers I know from Portugal do pirate because people just cant afford games, there's never sales.
And the price back home for games doesn't drop much. Not even close to the UK where I can find games half the price after 3 months.
Furthermore, the minimum wages in the Uk was 1200pounds, games were 45 pounds. So gaming is way more affordable here in the Uk
When I return to Portugal Ill be ordering games from amazon UK as games are often half price or less.
The only card xbox has in Portugal is Forza Horizon, and they blew it, because people will just get that on PC for free, so the only reason Xbox still sold a bit Microsoft just blew it.
