MS has no chance in Japan, cause the Japanese buy Japanese products and games. It's the same in the US - Americans buy X-box, because it's American. In Europe we just choose the best offer, that's why the PS3 dominates the 360. If the next gen X-box is better than Wii U/PS4 it will easily win in Europe.

Europe is the only market in which the best one actually wins.

I'm glad other people are realising that. Its what i've been saying ever since the Wii U was first unveiled. The graphical difference between the 3 cant be huge, otherwise they cant compete in price.

And the scenario you described with the Xbox out of the loop, could happen aswell with the Playstation Orbis out of the loop if it turned out too powerful. Sont doesnt have money for that battle, so Sony has to stick to Nintendo. Its the only chance they have to compete with price and still be more powerful than the WiiU. Wether that power is significant or not is something were gonna see.

Microsoft aims at the same croud Nintendo does (the living room), so its garanteed they will ship with kinect for that end. The difference here is, microsoft can also make a powerful system with that and sell it at a huge loss cause umm... they have the money for that.

MS has no chance in Japan, cause the Japanese buy Japanese products and games. It's the same in the US - Americans buy X-box, because it's American. In Europe we just choose the best offer, that's why the PS3 dominates the 360. If the next gen X-box is better than Wii U/PS4 it will easily win in Europe.

Europe is the only market in which the best one actually wins.

Yeah, me too. But then there's wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through-silicon_via

And then 2 more things:

He can't really be talking about the PS4. Impossible unless he's talking about displaying the simplest of the graphics.

Not even a GTX680 in SLI could display graphics at 8k x 4k at 300fps. Unless that "fps" doesn't mean "frames per second", ofc.

If that is true, I feel sorry for them because they have learned nothing.

1. Probably video playback.

2. Sony knows what they are doing much more than we do as far as money is concerned.

It is not anywhere near the same in the US. The Wii and PS3 combined for over 60 million hardware sales in the US. 360 has sold about half that. In Japan, 360 has sold less than 2 million units. It has a 7% marketshare, compared to Sony's 22/23% marketshare in the US, and the Wii's 40%. Americans are willing to buy Japanese products. Actually, more of them are willing to buy Japanese products than American products.

Japan is still an enormous market, and as long as Nintendo and Sony are splitting over 90% of the console market there and leaving the scraps for Microsoft, I cannot see a situation in which Microsoft becomes the market leader. I won't say 'never,' but it would have to win by an outrageously large margin in both America and Europe.

It's an interesting perspective to take that Europe picks the best console. I agree that the Wii was the best console this gen, but I'm not sure that's the most reliable method for determining that.

I take a different approach to these calculations. I wouldn't divide the market like this: Wii+PS3 vs. X360. I think it's PS3 vs. X360 and the Wii forms a totally different market, that there was no American competition on until the Kinect. The Wii has never been an alternative to the PS360. But I have to agree, you guys are less anti-Japanese, then they are anti-US when it comes to consoles.

When it comes to Europe, we just calculate the offers without being biased and go for what's more attractive. When it comes to my country for example, Sony is the only company that treated the market and gamers seriously and from the start has given us by far the best product. Second was MS, the worst offer came from Nintendo and it is totally reflected in the sales, where it's PS3>X360>>>>Wii and PSP>>>>>>>>DS.