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FlamingWeazel said:
toastboy44562 said:
FlamingWeazel said:
toastboy44562 said:
FlamingWeazel said:
toastboy44562 said:
Mmmfishtacos said:
MS would face the same struggles as the other two. First one to crack it going to win the gen.


The way I see it microsoft at least tries to do something new and it's successful so far. PS4 is basically a high end pc and Chinese won't want to support a Japanese company. Xbox One has a shot in China if it were cheaper. And the Wii U...well it's the Wii U


Stop posting please............so much FUD. What something NEW is MS trying? Please enlighten us. You also realise a High end PC is more multi purpose then ps4 and x1 combines right?


I see you are uninformed watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lebq254G_0M

I know you fear the PS4 will lose it's steam I can assure you that it will sell just fine. No need to panic.

Don;t see anything new. Thanks for proving my point. HDMI pass thru is new? Cable is new? OK, dilusional confirmed.

Streaming for backwards compatibility is mroe new then anything MS is doing.

 


Start shoughting voice commands at your laptop or try watching a blue ray on it.I didn't think so. Stop trolling the forums. This is about China being a huge market.

Been using voice on PS4 since launch, my tablet for years, and my phone... NEW right?


1.) PS4 doesn't utilize voice commands like the Xbox One does

2.) We were talking about PCs not tablets and Phones. You just proved my point

3.) Stop trolling the forums it's getting old



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Touma said:
I post here the opinion of a member who lives in China (wangjingwanjia):

For China it's 99% PC gaming, if we talk stationary type of gaming. To play in LAN is very popular, like big internet cafés. Most places have hundereds but sometimes thousands of PC's, and people play MMORPG or FPS.

The price where I go sometimes is 10RMB(something like €1/$1) for 3 hours. It includes PC with headset and pre-installed games. You can also install or download other games if you ask first.

Below is an example, I think could be like 80-100 PC's in there. Not very big place and not too small. The place I go to have more like 300-500 PC's.


When it comes to console gaming I would say that the minority that do buy it I think PlayStation is the most used brand. Nintendo and Xbox are more rare but do exist. The easiest to find in Beijing are PS3 and Wii. And it's easier to find a PS4 than WiiU or Xbox One. When it comes to console games I think most will buy NBA, FIFA and PES. The football and basketball games. And I think also some of the big titles like Uncharted, Killzone or so will sell.

In Hong Kong the console market is much bigger than in mainland China, and I think also here PlayStation is the biggest brand. But I can't say too much about this market.


Playstation would appeal to china way before xbox./



China is a huge country in both surface area and population, however, as a console market; it's insignificant. Even at ten times Japan's population, they probably buy less than one tenth as many consoles.

People getting excited for consoles launching in China and India are in for a rude awakening.



FlamingWeazel said:
Seece said:
China not liking Japan actually has some relevance. I mean they reallllly don't like Japan (and vice verse I believe)

MS are full steam ahead in developing the Xbox One for china, Sony 'are not currently pursuing" it.

We'll see, might be big, might be a damp squib.


HUH?

http://www.videogamer.com/news/sony_keen_to_tap_into_chinese_video_games_market.html

 

Chian will be irrelevant for a very long time.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25635719

In response to the news, Sony said: "We recognise that China is a promising market. We will continuously study the possibility, but there is no concrete plan at this stage."



 

toastboy44562 said:


1.) PS4 doesn't utilize voice commands like the Xbox One does

2.) We were talking about PCs not tablets and Phones. You just proved my point

3.) Stop trolling the forums it's getting old


?? Still not new, having more commands is not new, and please it's laughable anyone is going to buy m a console over voice commands, that have been around for years and do not work as well as the older standard method .

 

 

 



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Seece said:
FlamingWeazel said:
Seece said:
China not liking Japan actually has some relevance. I mean they reallllly don't like Japan (and vice verse I believe)

MS are full steam ahead in developing the Xbox One for china, Sony 'are not currently pursuing" it.

We'll see, might be big, might be a damp squib.


HUH?

http://www.videogamer.com/news/sony_keen_to_tap_into_chinese_video_games_market.html

 

Chian will be irrelevant for a very long time.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25635719

In response to the news, Sony said: "We recognise that China is a promising market. We will continuously study the possibility, but there is no concrete plan at this stage."

MEh, if it becomes viable they will be there, period. At this stage this is all MS is doing.



Not any time soon. But just from an economic/cultural aspect it could easily become the biggest market.
I don't think Nintendo or Sony will struggle much because they're Japanese unless the government puts some rules in place that will hinder those consoles.
A lot of Chinese like Japanese culture so they will happily play Japanese games.



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FlamingWeazel said:
Seece said:
FlamingWeazel said:
Seece said:
China not liking Japan actually has some relevance. I mean they reallllly don't like Japan (and vice verse I believe)

MS are full steam ahead in developing the Xbox One for china, Sony 'are not currently pursuing" it.

We'll see, might be big, might be a damp squib.


HUH?

http://www.videogamer.com/news/sony_keen_to_tap_into_chinese_video_games_market.html

 

Chian will be irrelevant for a very long time.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25635719

In response to the news, Sony said: "We recognise that China is a promising market. We will continuously study the possibility, but there is no concrete plan at this stage."

MEh, if it becomes viable they will be there, period. At this stage this is all MS is doing.

No MS have concrete plans, heck even a name for it. They seem far more along the road than Sony do. Don't assume China will like PS more just because they're in the same area of the world as well.


The first console manufacturer through this process appears to be Microsoft, who are reportedly planning on releasing the Xbox One in China in late 2014.


Microsoft will be teaming up with Funshion, a Chinese VOD service in the vein of Netflix and Hulu. Funshion is owned by BesTV, who Microsoft recently announced that a partnership to bring “family games and related services” to China. The two companies have yet to announce what they are specifically working on, but they have spent nearly $80 million so far.



 

Seece said:
FlamingWeazel said:

MEh, if it becomes viable they will be there, period. At this stage this is all MS is doing.

No MS have concrete plans, heck even a name for it. They seem far more along the road than Sony do. Don't assume China will like PS more just because they're in the same area of the world as well.

Because they said so?? What are there plans?? Sorry that's jus fud until we see something concrete, how do you know where sony is at versus MS?? Sony is not going to talk about it until there is somethign concrete to talk about.

 

MS won;t sell anything worthwhile there, neither one will, but sony has the best chance to sell more, ms has nothing of interest to that market, heck outside the US ms doesn;t sell well period.

 

Sony already sells in hong long and taiwan.



http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/xbox-one-heads-china/
Xbox One heading to China later this year announced last year

Sony has no plans as of yet