Why doesn't Xbox sell as well as Switch or Playstation in Europe?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Verter said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

[...]There are products that the US actually makes that are the best in the world.  A good example is movies.  France is especially disgusted by American culture, but 9 out of the top 10 highest grossing films in France for 2019 were American made.  It's because the US is where the best movies are made.[...]

I'm just passing by to say that the bold part is quite arguable and sales don't necessarily equate quality. I might agree, however, that America makes the best movies that offer pure entertainment or are oriented to the mass market. But not the best movies overall.

Just in case, it's not that they don't make good movies that go beyond entertainment, of course they do; it' just that I wouldn't go as far as to say those movies are the best. (And they usually have that mass market appeal anyway.)

Whatever the case, this is just my opinion. (Also, sorry for being off-topic.)

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The type of quality I am talking about here is technical expertise.  In filmmaking this would be things like: editing, cinematography, pacing, special effects, etc....  American film makers are clearly the best with these types of things.  In fact, this sort of thing is not subjective and experts can agree which movies are good in these areas and which are bad.  The subjective part of a film involves it's actual content.  Also what one culture considers good content can be seen as poor content to another.  I, as an American, might think the Captain America movies are great, while someone from another country might find them boring or repulsive.  In fact, they might even dislike all super hero movies.  So basically, I'm saying American movies have the best craftsmanship, even if when the content isn't considered very good.

A similar sort of thing can be said about Japanese games.  These kinds of complaints tend to be more common for Western games that Japanese games: controls are unintuitive, game is buggy, development feels rushed, etc....  That is because Japanese games are the best put together purely from a craftsmanship standpoint.  Also, these sorts of complaints are also objective in nature.  On the other hand, when a person complains about a Japanese game it is more like, "Why does this guy have a huge sword and spikey hair?"  That is a complaint about the content.  Japanese people see this as good content, but someone from another country might see it as bad content.  What is seen as good content or bad content is subjective, and it is highly influenced by a person's culture.

There are parts to any art or entertainment that are objective and their are parts that are subjective.  When it comes to the objective parts, Americans are the best at film making and the Japanese are the best at game development.  That doesn't necessarily mean any given person will like American movies or Japanese games.  What people like is still highly dependent upon the content and that part is subjective.