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Goatseye on 20 November 2014
dyremose said:
To be honest most game companies dont focus enough on non american markets. Speaking as a european the only two big franchises that caters to us is fifa and assasins creed. Most other games is just 'merica fuck yeah.. Even when games are about us it still has have the american angle. Im thinking specifically on the 3 latest ww2 shooters. Sniper elite v3 where you are an american volunteer sniper during the north africa campaign between the UK and italy/germany. The US werent even in the war back then. Wolfebstein where you are once again an american saving the poles as a resistance fighter after waking up and found that 'america surrendered. The war is over'. What about the soviet union, UK and nationalist china? Who cares about them right?. The last one and most ridiculous in my opinion is enemy front. You are a resistance fighter in poland during the blitzkrieg in the early years of the war as operation barbarossa was ongoing. Turns out you are a war correspondent. From the US. Enough. The closest thing we get to european only games is in the UK and that is so obviously just to not completely alienate its US audience. We are a vast market and FIFA proves you dont need US sales in order to have a successfull product.

Guess where most of the big publishers and devs reside? US right? Who do you think they gonna pander to more?

For your information, US was involved in the WW2 and was present in North Africa.

There are a lot of games with Japanese influence out there, why don't you say something about that? Your inferiority complex towards America got your judgement clouded, son.



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Bigwoofer on 20 November 2014

It acceptance of their irrelevance in most world markets and focusing on the few they can actually do something about. Its good and bad, good being they are actually relevant somewhere but bad is that they their competitors the publishers know beyond a doubt that supporting them comes at a price.



MoHasanie on 20 November 2014

Yes, especially Europe. The X1 is doing terribly there.



    

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shloob on 20 November 2014

Because they are its two most important markets. U.S is the most important one period.



MoHasanie on 20 November 2014
shloob said:
Because they are its two most important markets. U.S is the most important one period.

This way of thinking is why the 360 ended up in third place last gen. They focused too much on America and the UK and forgot about the result of the world. 



    

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Goatseye on 20 November 2014
MoHasanie said:
shloob said:
Because they are its two most important markets. U.S is the most important one period.

This way of thinking is why the 360 ended up in third place last gen. They focused too much on America and the UK and forgot about the result of the world. 

It was just the most profitable console. It had the biggest online community (Xbox Live revenue)and highest attach ratio on the 7th gen.



MoHasanie on 20 November 2014
Goatseye said:
MoHasanie said:
shloob said:
Because they are its two most important markets. U.S is the most important one period.

This way of thinking is why the 360 ended up in third place last gen. They focused too much on America and the UK and forgot about the result of the world. 

It was just the most profitable console. It had the biggest online community (Xbox Live revenue)and highest attach ratio on the 7th gen.

No it wasn't. The Wii was the most profitable, by a huge margin as well. The 360 did make enough money in its later years to cover the losses from the early years, but the profits it made were no where near as big as the Wii. PS3 was the worst from the three, making gigantic losses and could never recover the losses it made. 

And the biggest online community fact is debatable. PSN was free on the PS3, so I think the online community on the PS3 was larger. 



    

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OfficerRaichu15 on 20 November 2014
Goatseye said:
MoHasanie said:
shloob said:
Because they are its two most important markets. U.S is the most important one period.

This way of thinking is why the 360 ended up in third place last gen. They focused too much on America and the UK and forgot about the result of the world. 

It was just the most profitable console. It had the biggest online community (Xbox Live revenue)and highest attach ratio on the 7th gen.

the wii didnt get any blockbuster games outside of call of duty



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Goatseye on 20 November 2014
MoHasanie said:
Goatseye said:

It was just the most profitable console. It had the biggest online community (Xbox Live revenue)and highest attach ratio on the 7th gen.

No it wasn't. The Wii was the most profitable, by a huge margin as well. The 360 did make enough money in its later years to cover the losses from the early years, but the profits it made were no where near as big as the Wii. PS3 was the worst from the three, making gigantic losses and could never recover the losses it made. 

And the biggest online community fact is debatable. PSN was free on the PS3, so I think the online community on the PS3 was larger. 

Guess where most of the online heavy games were selling the most?
Also, take into account Xbox Live membership sales into their sales revenue.



MoHasanie on 20 November 2014
Goatseye said:

Guess where most of the online heavy games were selling the most?
Also, take into account Xbox Live membership sales into their sales revenue.

You are right, but its debatable that Xbox had the biggest online community. Xbox has never revealed how many Gold accounts there are, but it is rumored to be around 17 million. At its peak, it was supposedly 25 million. Online gaming on the PS3 was free and so it most likely that it had a larger online community.  

Yes, Xbox live subsriptions helped Xbox become profitable. In fact, overall, the 360 might have never even been profitable without xbox live revenue. 



    

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