Reeves: 360 About Dead In Europe

So you'll have missed the Microsoft conference as well... Peter Moore seemed to be saying they're in a tight race with the Wii, while PS3 is lagging behind. What's your perspective on that?

Globally, I can't really comment. I would say that in the UK, Xbox 360 is doing okay. I would say in Continental Europe it's about dead. In Japan it's dead. I think it's doing very well in the US.

Wii is doing very well. Hats off to them; not only have they done well, they've got back in stock. They're marketing the console and the games extremely well. Two years ago the industry was writing them off, but they've come back. We owe a debt to Nintendo for keeping the industry going in the last couple of years; they're the ones who have kept it going.

Microsoft placed a big emphasis at this year's E3 on titles that are out this year, whereas yours featured more about titles due out in the longer term future, and Peter Moore said it's about winning this holiday. How are you going to compete?

I honestly don't think that just having the games on Xbox 360 is enough. I know it's nice to focus on one year, but he said the same last year - 'We're going to win the holiday season.' But they didn't; they missed that opportunity.

I don't want to criticise them, but they can't say the same again. PlayStation 3, you will see, will be far and away the winner when you look at it by March '08. They really, really will. It's something that is going to be a slow burner, and suddenly it's like a tsunami; it will just overtake you.

What will cause that tipping point?

You can't take a scattergun approach of putting all the games out. The Metal Gear Solids and the GT franchises - you don't have to put them out in November and December. You can put them out in January, March, April, whenever you like. A big game will move the platform.

In fact having a window of silence sometimes in those months is very good - that's what we've found. Metal Gear Solid always does well in March.

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i agree with him i to think sony will take 360 this christmas.

Soo.. according to Sony, Nintendo is responsible for NOT destryoing gaming and responsible for keeping it alive...

Your leader speaks Cows?

360 will own this Holiday season though........we only had gears last year.....look at the linup for this season

Can we ever get articles like this that aren't interviewing someone at Sony?

And it seems as if Sony is doing their damnest to increase 360 sales in Europe, by refusing to lower the $850 price tag there and pissing the Euros off.

"We owe a debt to Nintendo for keeping the industry going in the last couple of years; they're the ones who have kept it going."

That's certainly a very humble thing to say especially considering that it's coming from Sony.

On topic, we don't seem to have access to real figures in Europe besides VGchartz, but it looks like 360's best market (by far) is the US.

so nintendo was keeping the industry alive more than a year before the wii released :question:GunSmith1_basic

I think he's including the DS in that compliment.

so nintendo was keeping the industry alive more than a year before the wii released :question:GunSmith1_basic

So if an interviewer asks peter moore the same questions and we get Microsoft as the winner of '08 I can treat it as fact? Cool!TheSystemLord1

ask yourelf this question when ms was having their press conference at e3 why did they only show theirnorth americannumber of units sold?

who is David Reeves?TheDarkDisciple

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yeah thats what i thought..

The only one who dead is PS3. 600$ price tag, last exclusive is 7.8 game in MARCH, poor sales.

That's a pure victory, man :D

[QUOTE="SmashBrosLegend"][QUOTE="TheDarkDisciple"]who is David Reeves?TheDarkDisciple

yeah thats what i thought..

same

We owe a debt to Nintendo for keeping the industry going in the last couple of years; they're the ones who have kept it going.

-Renegade

But the cows said nintendo is ruining gaming!... :O

360 will own this Holiday season though........we only had gears last year.....look at the linup for this season

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Im looking, but it only looks good if sony and nitendo didnt exist. Nitendo has great games comming out this holiday, and sony has even better games comming. It will be a close fight, but in a fanboys eye such as yourself, microsoft will make it, hahahaha. Nice one.

The 360 is actually not selling very good here.

I can see that it's selling preatty good in UK but that country is probably as far as you can go from the avarage European one.