I wouldn't be so sure about that. Mark my words, Wii U is about to explode soon, the upcoming lineup looks great, once it gets a pricecut to $249 everyone will want it. Remember, it's not competing with PS4 and XO, so no matter how successful PS4 is, it changes nothing for Wii U. With the way PS4 dominates XO I can see Wii U selling more than XO. You can't allow your competitor to dominate you, because it's gonna be a landslide. MS has to put up a fight or we can see PS4 dominating it PS2 style. 

If PS4 becomes the obvious first option, the first console people want to pick up, most people won't consider XO as the second option, because it's too similar. Most games they already have on their PS4, it's just too expensive for the added quality. On the other hand Wii U is cheap and has an original lineup and will become the obvious second choice. That is why people thinking Wii U will be last this gen are jumping the gun. Soon MS may be watching Nintendo's back. I have full confidence in N.

Also - I don't think XO without Kinect will sell that much and change the game. Kinect seems to be a major point of emphasis of XO, the whole console is built around it. Such a console would probably share the fate of Wii U basic. Nobody is picking it up, because people don't want an inferior product. What is more, without Kinect you just get a weaker PS4 for the same price and a feeling of guilt that you're too cheap to get the full experience. MS is gonna experience just how hard it was for Sony to turn PS3 into what it is now.

well, if the company i work represents almost 40% market share in electronics and we have almost 2000 preorders, the rest will have around 3000, so the country may have 5k preorders. another 5k can be easily done in direct sales.

Its a poor country, but where i live (near Lisbon) if you go watch the trafic in a highway half of the cars are bmw´s, merc´s, audi´s. So, yes there´s hundreads of thousands portuguese who live well and like´s to show of.

Sorry for my english, :)

I think it's a bit foolish to think that a $100 cheaper xbox one won't move a significant amount of units compared to the xbox one in its current form and price.  Like you said, the Wii U and the X1/PS4 are competing for different audiences.  

What you observed with the Wii U Basic edition might not be the same one bit with what you might see with a kinect-less, $399 Xbox One.  And judging from a ton of feedback posts from nearly all social media websites, people are almost universally claiming to be holding out on a kinect-less cheaper Xbox One.  

The war isn't over until the end. Sony has won the battle.

The war is over when sony says it's over.

Even though I'm primarily a PlayStation gamer myself, these "Winning the war" quotes always make me chuckle. I'm pretty sure Germany were considered to be winning WWII in its first 2 weeks too :P

I think they were winning for the first 2+ years.  But your point is still very true.

This.

Is there even a date when the Xone will release in Japan or do they even plan to bother?

Also, as a european, I don't see how any of that TV stuff is targeted at me. In fact I don't know anyone with a cable box. We rent cards that plug into your TV that give you access to HD broadcasts, what's the use of the hdmi in for me?

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