WE ARE DEBATING WHETHER A SINGLE COUNTRY WHERE HUGE SALES ARE ACHIEVED IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN OTHER CONTINENTS? You guys are crazy. When it comes to gaming, the US will always be that one market that everyone wants to excel.
Are you seriously trying to tell me what the USA has done for the world entertainment culture.
Your whole point is the Sony would put USA first which is nonsense .
They really don't have to since the western market is the same for consoles hardware but even then EU sell the same amount consoles for Sony .
If anything you can see Sony does not put the USA first by looking at there software which sold the most in the EU .
In fact they made the new GOW with EU in mind .
The fact that you think XBOX1 has not done bad ( i think it did okay\bad depending on context ) because it sold okay in USA is funny .
When even compare to 360 it going to sell way less in the USA.
You need to take off your USA = the world glasses .
Sony makes most of their money in the US. Every console manufacturer makes most of their money in the US, and it will remain to be the case as long as the dollar is the reserve currency and as long as the petrodollar is still in use.......should they collapse then you would have a point.
Gamers in the US just have more to spend, and it has a lot to do with how the worldwide currency is set up. If you cannot understand that or do not understand that, or cannot grasp why the Euro was even set up, then you have no grasp of how these businesses are structured. Sony will put the US first and by extension the EU because that is the only way to make money.
I find it crazy .
When the truth is more and more things are targeting the WW market as a whole.
For eg anybody that follows movies would know that Hollywood had start doing that over 2 decades ago .
But yeah it seem you are right .
The biggest hits in Hollywood......what are they based on? It is mainly US pop culture, or comics that were written decades ago, issues to do with drugs.
You can't really reason with a perspective like his.
Better to agree to disagree and move on.
I can assure you that you are wrong in this, and that you would struggle to make a point that makes any sense. Businesses follow money, and money in gaming is mainly made in the US for the most part, by extension, businesses in entertainment spend more to appease to that market.
Edit: Gamers in the US are paying on average less for consoles and games given how the exchange rate works, yet they account for the lion's share of sales. Sony and Microsoft would be making a larger loss on consoles if they were subsidized, and a lower profit if costs came down i.e. they are both doing that to ship higher volumes.
Let us also assume that the current sales gap remains 2:1, and Sony ships 100 million total (30% to the US) and Microsoft sells 50 million with 40% going to the same country. Both would be on the lower end, but this one country would account for 1 out of every three consoles shipped worldwide. But you are likely to ship more consoles to a market that sells more than you are to a market that sells less...so what does that say?
The only way you guys can make sense out of nothing is by lumping the entire European market together as if it were a single economic block against a single country. As I stated before, the only way the US market collapses is if the the dollar collapses, or if people stop trading in it internationally, because all that inflation that the US has exported will come home, and it will bring the worldwide economy down in the process.
