The more affluent tend to live in the more urban centers.  I'm guessing Internet access in urban centers is fine.

Is the peasant farmer out in the far edges of the country going to purchase one?  Probably no.  There's likely no infrastructure to support it (Power or Internet), so it wouldn't make much sense. 

I still think Microsoft is planning on rolling out an IPTV service.  What they've done with the Guide is a lot of work simply to use it for cable.  Understand, MediaRoom has a guide built into it, and it has many of the same features as the Guide on Xbox One.  Why sell MediaRoom, keep a bunch of patents related to commercials (more than the one posted about here), patents related to delivering programming, etc, and not have something more planned?

Kinect doesn't work in most non english speaking countries for starters, I don't even know how many cable providers there is in China but Microsoft will have to strike a deal with all the important ones for it to be able to reach an important portion of the population, the majority of the chinese don't make enough money to be able to afford the xbone or ps4, roughly 50% of the population has access to the internet which is not as fast as the Internet you get in the States. There is a lot of infrastucture and logistic problems Microsoft will have to face to be able to give them access to the services the US consumers will have at launch. Also we don't even know if they will be able to sell their console in China, the xbox 360 didn't realease there.

When they launch Xbox Live there I'll consider it. Otherwise those Xbones are going to have a hard time going online everyday.

no. its for money and control.

That would be nice, I would be happy to drop my local provider, provided it’s not too much of a price difference.  Especially if I can get a nice convenient guide - if they added voice search to that, Oh, total Win-Win with icing on top! 

That might make me a day one adopter. But I think they are trying to work with the existing cable companies – or they would be fighting back hard to stop the Xbox One.

Like the curent ESPN or HBO Go, I think some will come through the cable companies.

Yeah if MS cuts into a deal with the Chinese government I can totally see this happening.

The info through Kinect spying is invaluable. Wow. I can't believe I didn't think of this beforehand. And MS can do it too. They have huge connections.

Couldn’t they just add Chinese Language Support?  At least the two major ones.  And even if only small percentage of the people with internet access in China buy it, it would be a huge success.

They launched with English, Japanese and Mexican Spanish.  Every so often they have been adding other languages. It currently supports: Australia English, Canada English, Canada French, France French, Germany German, Ireland English, Italy Italian, Japan Japanese, Mexico Spanish, New Zealand English, Spain Spanish, United Kingdom English, United States English

Even Skyrim Kinect support includes English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dova (Dragon).  Surly, if Kinect can learn to speak Dragon it could learn Chinese.

You overestimate the chinese market, most 360 that got imported there are hacked and the number is comparable to the sales in japan, they could had the chinese dialects for kinect but even if they are able to sell in China I don't see how they could do much better than what they did this gen, now that piracy will be harder on the xbone

Do the math dude..  If 20% of the chinese population can afford these products the market size rivals north american. China has a population of 1.4 billion. The potential is huge.