It's not the first official release. Nintendo has been selling their consoles in China for years now. 

I don't agree with you. It won't give it a boost at all probably. I live in the Netherlands which is one of the countries where it will launch in september. But the Xbox One has been available in like all the stores here for months now. At first it was being sold at a higher price due to additional import costs of course, but later on this changed. Currently you can already get it below the official price as you can see at the link below. This implies the demand isn't very high just like in the rest of the world. Furthermore those new countries are considered PS territory and let's not pretend like the Xbox One is doing fine in the rest of Europe, because it's doing horrible at the moment.

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From what I understand, China had a fairly active gray market when it came to imported consoles and knock-offs, things like that, so assuming you had disposable income, it might not even have been that DIFFICULT to get your hands on a console in the region, along with games. It would be like legalizing marijuana; sure, big deal, but there are plenty of, um, recreational users who are just going to shrug and say; "No more sketchy dealers for me, I guess?"

It actually puts the 'Official' launches in an interesting position, because it's already been revealed that 1) The Chinese government will have essential veto rights when it comes to deciding what games can, or cannot, be sold in the region, and 2) all officially sold consoles (or at least Xbox Ones, though I would be MASSIVELY surprised if Sony doesn't have to do the same when the PS4 arrives,) will be region locked, along with all officially sold games, to reinforce the censorship. So no importing games from other countries.

Depending on how many games get censored or restricted in China, and by extension how severaly the library for the officially released consoles is reduced due to such bans, the gray market might still remain quite popular; basically people might choose to buy a Gray Market Console that plays ALL the games in the library, instead of the Official Console that only plays 60-70% of them. I say this, however, not knowing how the price of the Gray Market equivalent measures up to the officially released units, so hard to be certain. n.n;

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Counting GDP/cap after health care does EXACTLY THAT. Whether or not you pay it yourself, somebody pays for it (usually the government through taxation), which is counted as a part of GDP. This GDP/cap is NOT your income, but rather the average amount of money in the economy, and about 1/3 of it (depending on the country) is never ever touched by the citizens (taxation, transfers, depreciation, investment etc).

Also there are two other factors... One is the price differential across countries... The figures I have given are in PPP (purchasing power parity terms), so that's normalized for all countries, with base being USA. Second is the income inequality, and this is exactly why I am using the MEDIAN income (the income of the Middle man, 50th percentile), which takes care of it.

Also counting OUT the health care and military expenses makes a lot of sense because HOW MUCH YOU SPEND on health care (although correlated) is irrelevant, but rather THE OUTCOME of those spendings is important. US spends 2.5x the OECD average getting WORSE results, so even if your country spends less, it still gets far better results, so counting the EXTRA MONEY IN US ECONOMY makes zero sense.

My expertise is in health care efficiency, so hopefully I was able to help.

I know you're an Xbot Toastboy but this is a little unreasonable. Those are smaller markets that are predominantly PlayStation gamers. While it will boost sales it will be nowhere near as big as you say. X1s are already available in a lot of those places anyway. Plus why would the PS4 baseline drop so much? Those small markets are not going to make that much of a difference in the long run. In the first few weeks there will more than likely be a significant increase but after that it will go back down to 10K-15K a week at the very most and that's being optimistic

Yes, but Romania has a bigger gaming market than Slovakia, Greece, etc.. which are Tier 2 countries!

Heh! I really hope that number wasn't a mistake! I mean, Sony released the PS4 officially in Romania, Ukraine, etc.. this February and it would be nice to see MS do the same thing with the X1 sonner or later!

i just qoute all of u guys talking about it. but i had to delate the first porst, because of the qoutetree rule. nothing more, nothing less

I have a hard time believing it will pass the PS4 by that time. I was more confident of this once, right now not so much