Actually you do.   Americans, Japanese, Brazilians, etc are not all nationally programmed replicants (yes, I just watched Blade Runner).

kowen's point is dead on:  this is all about money.  The only reason these businesses exist is to make money.  If they don't, then they can no longer do anything because everything that they do cost (or makes) money.  The sooner people divorce themselves from thinking these companies are something more benevolent the sooner we can all discuss matters in a more balanced (and less emotional) way.

ethomaz your logic is dreadfully terrible and abonimable.

nothing you said makes any sense whatsoever.

you just keep repeating the same flawed logic in different ways.

kowenicki and seece broke it down and simplified the UK sales situation beautifully yet you were still unable or unwilling to digest and rationalize the information. 

The only thing more embarrassing than your woefully misinformed opinion is the fact that others on here are agreeing with your incoherent mantras.

Yes i agree

Unfortunatley for the sake of the truth, most of what ethomaz has said in this thread is devoid of both logic and common sense

huh.... your suggesting Sony give up on the US and UK?

ps: i have never said that microsoft should give up on japan, nor have i said that the people claiming the US and UK are strong regions for Sony are wrong. its all relative. also if you want to talk about hypocrasy, look no further than people who in the past have constantly said that the US for Sony is weak.

pps: do you really think focusing on regions like the UK is a bad business strategy for Sony? some reason to me, it doesnt seem as if it would drive a companyy bankrupt

only thing is, neither you nor anyone else would have thought that (especially you), had it not been for kowen starting the meaningless argument.

its just antics over nothing, people who claim it is a weak territory and people who claim it is a strong teritory are all correct in a sense. perspective.

and ethomaz point was completely right

The fact is the UK is Europe's biggest video game market so to be third there is worse than winning in other parts of Europe , It is similar to NA vs the rest of the world yes the rest of the world is important as far as total hardware numbers go but NA is more important as far as game sales go and it's influence.

Think what you want from me... but that does not change the fact that Sony needs to improve PS3 sales in US and UK.

A bunch of people in this thread seem to think that its only the absolute sales numbers that matter. Yet Kowenicki, and several other people, seem to think that MS should pull out of Japan and stop wasting money there. Does that mean they should pull out of every other country that they've sold less than 1.5 million in (pretty much every continental EU market except Germany and France)?

I'm not suggesting anything of the sort.  I just notice a lot of arguments and viewpoints shifting in this thread simply because of the regions being discussed.  Just an overall lack of consistency that is a bit annoying.

As one of my earlier posts in this thread admitted, my eyes were actually opened a bit because I had no idea that the UK was the PS3's top selling region in Europe even though it doesn't have the highest population.  As for whether Sony should focus on regions that have the higher number of non-gamers or those that have proven to have a strong gamer population already is another discussion to which I really don't think there is a 'right' answer to.

OT: For the record, I have seen kowenicki and Seece strongly criticize Microsoft this gen.  And not in that fake "MS-won't-drop-the-360-to-$99-so-they-don't-want-to-win" sort of way.  If they seem to run to the defense of the 360, I'd imagine it is residual damage from the years of negative fanboyism (and more recently stealth trolling) toward the 360 that is part of the unfortunate history of this community.  It shouldn't surprise or offend.  It's like being surprised that someone that has been attacked by a pack of dogs to now jump whenever they hear a dog growl or bark.  The solution?  Just be better.  The community can only be better or worse from our individual conduct.  Check the sig. 

Hey, I just found out that I'm a 360 fan.

-suicides-