Ka-pi96 said:
shikamaru317 said:
Football (Soccer) and Racing games are the top genres in Europe afaik. They already have Forza in the racing genre which boosts Xbox sales each year when they release, while the Football market is already crowded by FIFA and PES. So I can only assume that he means they plan to create or buy more European developers. Or perhaps there is another genre popular in Europe that I'm forgetting.
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Any other genres popular in Europe are generally popular in the US too.
I hope he does mean acquiring more European developers though, there's quite a few good ones around already. Eastern Europe could be a good place to start some new ones up as well, it's a region that seems to be rapidly progressing when it comes to game development and would be relatively cheap compared to western Europe or America.
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Only way Xbox would get a football exclusive would be to make a deal with EA for Fifa but I can't see that happening and they already have the best franchise of the racing genre in Forza but I think DesusX hit the mark about what Phil meant both Scalebound and ReCore should be relevent to a broader range of tastes and they should work on bringing 1-2 of these a year to the platform along with a few more RPG's. I also feel Lionhead Studios will be working on some new IP massive fablelike RPG after Legends which could have a massive appeal to many. The more European developers could be a good idea as it would generally bring a different writing/artwork styles.
On a whole I don't think the Xbox suffers in Europe due to its games I think its in a fine spot for games currently and it's more Europeans just love Sony consoles. I think UK and US can be considered the same market and both have their loved FiFa/Madden and rest of it is basically the same taste and still even not to much of a difference with the US/EU market either.
