I would say North America, UK, Western Europe and Japan will have priority over everywhere else.
They will reserve 100 of them for Japan and it might be too much
priority:
Phil Spencer explicitly said they wanted a big marketing presence in Japan this time
Europe is much more important than Canada to them. Especially France and Germany.
He says that France is 'in the priority countries'. Doesn't that clearly imply there are Tiers?
Having a marketing presence and stock to support it is not depending on the market itself but on Xbox strategy. I'm not saying Xbox Series X will suddenly allow Xbox to be successful in Japan, but almost giving up on that region cost a lot to Microsoft with the Xbox One. Phil doesn't want to repeat the same mistake.
They had a very good market penetration last gen and screwed up royally. Perhaps they want to make amends.
Interesting. He also said they would talk more about their plans for that market soon. Hyped. Can't wait to see what they got cooking.
France is SONY and Nintendo. Nintendo is in a league of its own here but as far as « Powerful console » goes Sony rules here
Really? I thought Nintendo has been dominating the French market for the past couple of years.
In 3 years Nintendo has sold more than 3m switch in France. In twice that span Sony has moved more than 6m PS4
Oh, I see. You are comparing consoles excluding Nintendo. It's the same as "PS3 is the market leading game console in France!"* ** ***
Nah I mean look at the figures Switch is on the same trend than the PS4 here. But yes in a next gen topic I was implying that vs Xbox France is Sony. People usually get both Nintendo and Sony.
It was definitely closer than usual that time but PS3 was still ahead
I'd probably add Australia (not sure about NZ) into that WE/Mexico bucket
France is pretty much Nintendo-Sony, but Microsoft made quite the sales during the X360 days (cheaper console and all), even if PS3 closed the gap and even surpassed it in the later years
There always are. You can't have enough units to equally share all around the world.
France stating they're a priority country basically confirms tiers though? It makes sense as well, even though it sucks if you're in a lower priority country.
Yeah it did great but the article above says that in 2010 for the third year in a row in France PS3 sold more than the 360. Unless you're talking worldwide
What makes you think that about western european countries? especially since you said ''all''. We didn't have a pandemic in 2013 and multiple western european countries weren't part of the first wave.
