NZ, Ireland and Austria are no-brainers even without Kinect voice functionality. In the case of NZ and Ireland there is no language localisation necessary, for either Kinect or for in-game VA / subtitles, manuals etc. It's all English, so to not release in those countries would be just stupid. And Austria, likewise is monolingual German, and right next door to Germany so it would also be idiotic for it not to be Tier 1.

There is no way NZ is actually a tier 1 country in terms of sales and revenue. Though we probably have a better per-capita gaming market than many tier 2s. We just get to play with the big boys because we speak the same lingo. Because there is no language barrier for the native Xbox language, and we're next to to a legit Tier 1 country (Aussie), which also speaks English, we get to coat tail on this sort of stuff.

i am from switzerland, french talk french, no dialectic variants, same with italian, german use a few dialectic but all talk true german too, and for romanch, this languages is just official history wise. nobody talk this anymore but very old ppl in small town..

It makes perfect sense

welp, i guess you were wrong kowen.

Always a way to find the silver lining in a delayed launch, basically xbone just had to release in its "major selling countries" because it was not ready for this gen, sony forced them to launch early

This whole building up stock is pure bull, xbox just have plenty left of from the Japan launch

BTW in Germany there are surely far more German dialects than in Switzerland, same for Italy and Italian and France and French, but obviously we all use a "standard" language, both taught at school, spoken by the majority of people except in the smallest villages and even those that mainly speak dialect use standard language for mutual comprehension with people from other places and obviously in official documents, and they listen to it in TV and at the cinemas. If XBOne had to run after dialects and variants it couldn't have launched early in any country larger than the Principality of Monaco. Heck, in my town, Genoa, the west outskirt dialect is even quite different from the eastern one.

What an amusing necrobump we've got here.

i give this thread a 95% out of 100%

I see what you did there

Also Has Microsoft ramped up production of xboxones? This is also a point,  is the xboxone increase demand enough for microsoft having to increase the production level for the xboxone?

Is the current Stock level out there enough? To cover the demand? It would seem that there is no real increases needed, not with current production template / month enough to cover the demand? I would say Yes there covered enough and we last seen Microsoft has had to reduce production monthly template numbers, not ramp up the template numbers.