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you cant really blame ms for the leaks though its not there fault that we looked at the leaks



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JayWood2010 said:
TiagoCosta said:

If all games are available on PC, which would be your arguments?


Well for starters not everything is.  

But we will use Tomb Raider as an example

Tomb Raider will make the XBO worth the purchase if you like TOmb Raider 2013.  If youre looking for a next gen console and dont do PC this is your entry point.  Added to that you can purchase other big games like Forza Horizon 2 and SUnset Overdrive as a bonus.

Its not hard to make a case because different people look for different things.  Just like my Bloodborne thread i realize that.  If you dont like Dark Souls youre prob not going to like Bloodborne, but it is a great game so if you like Dark Souls id recommend getting a PS4.

Not everybody does PC and ive mentioned this before in the past and wont go into that any further.  For people who does do PC then they dont have to get XBO for games such as tomb raider, no big deal.  What you cant say is that XBO is failing in comparision to X360.  In reality XBO has outsold X360 in the same time frame.  XBO has actually gotten off to an excellent start so to make it sound like theyre making all terrible decisions isnt true.  Its just that PS4 just so happens to be selling better for a few different reasons which i also wont be getting into.  

"For starters" I'm talking about the "if" situation where all XBO are on pc. I thought I was being clear about that, obviously that includes forza and SO. You are going against your own way on thinking by stating exclusives tho as you think everything should be in pc. 

Souls series is terrible.

360 didn't drop the price in the first year, the bad decisions are just starting with the pc talk. 360 had a hard situation of needing to perform  way better than the Xbox which didn't sold that much, 360 made Xbox gain new fans... XBO supposedly would always have a easier time in selling better head start.. With the lack of variety XBO has Europe sales will continue to be underwhelming, Europe loves what XBO is lacking. 



shikamaru317 said:

Was posted earlier :p but yeah, it's pretty good sales 



Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65) 

Wii u: 20 milliion

shikamaru317 said:
GamechaserBE said:
Toejam and earl made the 400K

Very nice! It has no chance of reaching the Xbox One stretch goal, but the devs have said that they want to port it to every platform after release, so we should get it on Xbox One eventually.


:) Yeah but  something we should not forget that the last 48 hours everyone who pledged or followes the kickstarter projects gets a reminder email and that has resulted in 10K the last two hours.  Happy if it can atleast reach another stretch goal.



TiagoCosta said:

 Europe sales will continue to be underwhelming, Europe loves what XBO is lacking. 


As far as im aware XBO is out-pacing X360 in Europe as well




       

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JayWood2010 said:
TiagoCosta said:

 Europe sales will continue to be underwhelming, Europe loves what XBO is lacking. 


As far as im aware XBO is out-pacing X360 in Europe as well

Europe without UK is what I'm talking about.



TiagoCosta said:
JayWood2010 said:


As far as im aware XBO is out-pacing X360 in Europe as well

Europe without UK is what I'm talking about.

 Yes

X360 Sold 2.3m Total in Europe in 2005/2006

XBO sold 2.9m Total in Europe 2013/2014

Also taking into account X360 had the market to itself and XBO wasnt out in much of Europe




       

shikamaru317 said:

JayWood2010 said:

That includes the UK, if you subtract UK, 360 is tracking ahead of XB1 I think.


There isnt much information to make much of an assessment other than that.  All we know is that XBO passed the 1m mark in UK on November 21st 2014 and that XBO wasnt out in many European countries until Spetmber 2014 yet it outsold X360 by a total of 600k-700k from launch date






       

Well, most stuff Europeans play is on XBO (not talking about PC exclusive stuff like Dota), the games aren't the problem at least in Germany, it's not as if the games not on XB but on PS would attract most PS fans (all this Japanese stuff). It's bad or missing marketing over a decade and Europe fell in love with the PS brand a long time ago and this will simply not change as long as Sony won't totally fuck it up.

People just don't see a reason here to buy an XB instead of a PS when they were always happy with the PS brand. People will also always buy iPhones as long as Apple won't totally fuck it up. They will only switch if iPhone won't have what they want. 

MS could try harder with better marketing and better prices but if XB would have some of the Japanese stuff which PS has or not wouldn't change much here in Germany where most simply want their Fifa, CoD, GTA and maybe some Gears, TLoU or Halo. 

Ahh, and something which hurt XBO in Germany was all this NSA spying on us scandal stuff and XBO having Kinect and bla...was pretty big here in the media (Spiegel as example) and this surely didn't help Xbox. 





Good taste.