Stop playing this stupid old card, it's completely false. XO is easily available in every single one of the 28 EU countries - #dealwithit

It is tradition that the best product giving the highest value wins in Europe. This is the least biased region of all - if you make the best product, it will be reflected in the sales. Japanese buy Sony & Nintendo cause they are Japanese, Americans prefer Xbox, cause it's American, while we are judging the consoles for what they really are. There is no doubt that PS4 is vastly superior than the XO in many, many ways and the European market reflects that. If you add the fact that Sony makes much better 1st party games than MS on top of that... There is really not much that MS can do.

The only chance for XO to compete in EU is to cut the price so that it's significantly cheaper than the PS4 (reflecting the lower value of the product) and to finally release some good software. But that doesn't mean Halo 5. Halo means nothing in Europe. I don't know a single person who has ever played Halo. Nobody really cares about this franchise, they have to come up with something else if they want to fight for this market.

That's a more skewed ratio than Ps3 vs. 360 in Japan.

Think about that, people (if your brain didn't explode).

XBone will be fine, but not as good as 360 in Europe. It will 'survive' this gen.

The European countries it hasn't been released in yet will barely add anything to those numbers, I'm quite sure of it. Every market here was already Sony domain anyway, and now after this belated launch, people don't even care about the Xbox One anymore. Most people probably don't even know it exists at all.

Copy-pasting my previous post:

Those countries represent like 80+% of sales in mainland Europe.

Expect sales to skyrocket to 5,200 units or so.

Plus X1 is available all over Europe anyway.

And what did you think the moment you saw the Wii controller? Why didn't you think that would stink? You probably did. What did you think the moment you saw the DS? Did you think that one would stink? I hope not, because it did even better. And guess which one the Wii U is more like? The DS. There's no predicting skills here. The Wii U failed for the same reasons the Wii and DS succeeded. Nintendo failed/succeeded to convince people that their latest weird device was the next great way to play games. Why'd they succeed with Wii and DS and not with Wii U? It seems pretty obvious to me that it's marketing. Which do you, as the average consumer, want to buy? The one with the ad with the catchy Japanese music and two Japanese guys bowing to you and saying "Wii would like to play" and people using the controller and having fun playing in a way no one's really seen before, or the one with the dubstep and a few pictures of the console with no illustration of why the controller is special? You knew nothing ahead of time, anymore than you did last generation. The Wii U's problem is mainly marketing, a difficult but not impossible problem to fix. The Xbone's problem is bad PR, a difficult but not impossible problem to fix. PS4 on the other hand is winning due to insane brand power, but not even that will save it if Sony doesn't start delivering on games, otherwise people will drop it like they dropped the Wii as soon as Nintendo stopped bringing the games back in 2011.

2.1:1 or so.

lol.

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People are waiting for the price drop version of the Xbox One, then its sales will hulk out.