IGN India: similarly to March, Xbox Series S was India’s best-selling console in April 2021. PS4 comes 2nd this month
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Potato Chip PRO
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Gamepass doing the work of selling consoles. Proof right here!
Cornbread78
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Can we just ban all sales threads until production is normal again? We can already predict how the thread is going to go, lol.
(Surprised Switch isn't #1, lol)
(Surprised Switch isn't #1, lol)
The Chairman
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Yup. a 1.38 billion people country. big mistake.
DarkMage619
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It was perfectly fine when PS5 outsold Xbox in Luxembourg. India should count too.
NickFire
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I'm pretty confident they have a strategy for where to send supply. And If they see India as an emerging market, it's probably a calculated / reasonable risk that brand loyalty will keep people waiting longer at home, while word of mouth could help them grown elsewhere.
NeoIkaruGAF
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And miss an opportunity to post anotherone.gif?
sircaw
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The Chairman
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If there are no PS5s to buy of course it'd come in 2nd.
The PS5 didn't come in 2nd.
DarkMage619
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I just hope you keep that same energy when the 'PS5 wins Slovenia!' threads. You have the gravitas to change things Fish man.It's not fine for anywhere, this crap needs to stop.
What next Swaziland.
Pallas
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India could be a great emerging market for new customers for all platforms, smart move to try and grab some on Microsoft's part with the affordable Series S.
You'll live.
sircaw
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i am trying to save you all the stress, you do realize that ps5 is selling better than xbox worldwide.
You do realize your opening up Pandora's box, don't you?
You have thought this through yer?
Stuart360
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I wonder how many wheelbarrows full of these you would need for a Series S?It's not fine for anywhere, this crap needs to stop.
What next Swaziland.
sircaw
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this reminds me of zimbabwe.I wonder how many wheelbarrows full of these you would need for a Series S?
I lived there when i was young, about 1986, i remember the zim dollar being worth almost as much as the British pound. 1 to 1 back then
Now it's like a trillion Zim dollars for a loaf of bread.
laynelane
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i am trying to save you all the stress, you do realize that ps5 is selling better than xbox worldwide.
You do realize your opening up Pandora's box, don't you?
You have thought this through yer?
On a more serious note, people love sales threads and it's interesting to see how games and consoles are doing world-wide.
Bo_Hazem
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Where are the numbers?
vaibhavpisal
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Nintendo isn't officially available.
Gamepass will go a long way in making consoles acceptable in India. People aren't used to paying high prices for games after they just paid significant chunk for console.
Most popular games are pubg/cod but people mostly play on mobiles/pcs as those are multi tasking devices and easy to justify to families.
Zathalus
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You would need 70 notes using local pricing. Not all African countries are Zimbabwe.I wonder how many wheelbarrows full of these you would need for a Series S?
The Hamburglar
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You also need 1.3 billion rubles to buy one
Hendrick's
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GHG
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Craig of War
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So a cheaper console doing better in a 3rd world country sounds about right
IntentionalPun
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India's economy is roughly the size of the UK... which regularly has sales threads that nobody complains about.It's not fine for anywhere, this crap needs to stop.
What next Swaziland.
I do agree they all are rather pointless; but be an equal opportunity complainer bro-fish.
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vaibhavpisal
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What do you want to know?
Consoles sell about 0.5-1 million per generation.
In comparison a game like Call of Duty mobile can get 20 million + player base.
The Pleasure
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Is Dhalsim using a ceramic heater to cook his curry?
IntentionalPun
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That's pretty tiny lol
I think the story for places like India is markets like this are multiplying in a few years. If they keep up the growth rate they'll be key markets in a decade.
Big IF, but makes sense MS isn't lacking in Series S shipments there.
Good for the S. I think S and Game Pass, like others have mentioned, will be big in these developing markets. Games aren't cheap so many have relied on second hand physical copies or piracy, but game pass reduces that barrier for cheap regional pricing. Much more convenient.
I also think xCloud will be huge for the mobile centric markets like India and Japan if they can market it correctly.
I also think xCloud will be huge for the mobile centric markets like India and Japan if they can market it correctly.
TKOFromTokyo
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My company highlights sales in emerging markets like China, India, Brazil, and Russia in earnings releases. There are a lot of opportunity in these countries.
vaibhavpisal
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Yes it's tiny.
But keep in mind most popular games are simply mobile ports of console games.
Pubg, cod, gta etc are cultural phenomenon.
Consoles are a bit of aspirational item for young folks who start gaming on mobiles.
It's different from, say Japan where consoles are in decline
Woopah
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In a ideal world we'd get weekly hardware and software sales like Japan, but that's quite unlikely. Even the weekly charts we get from somewhere like Spain or the UK would be good to get.
The Pleasure
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That's how sega lasted for a while. Brazil for the master system still lives on.
IntentionalPun
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And MS is trying to break into that with streaming really.
An uphill battle since games play just fine on cell phones that people want to play on cell phones..
sircaw
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at the end of the day, when i read stuff like this.
That said, many aren't expecting Microsoft's lead to extend into May and beyond. Reason being, this May and June sees PS5 restocks.
And it's from Ign, it reads just like that windows central crap i read a week ago, fluff piece.
And just so you know, i am actually interested in buying myself a series s, hopefully, later this year, when Grim dawn comes out on it.( which outside of diablo2 is my favorite game of all time) Saying that i might wait for xmas and hopefully a price drop for the s, i think its a little bit to high atm for what they are asking
And as to grim dawn, According to the there forums and i quote,
We've got a few things that certification has flagged for us to fix before the build can be uploaded. Nothing too big, but work to do nonetheless, and then we'll send it through again and hopefully that'll do it.
that was like a week ago,so we are hopefully getting closer and closer to the game
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vaibhavpisal
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I think console market will grow. At a slow pace though. As young generation will start earning.
They like big screen experience.
prinz_valium
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No. Supply is way more interesting than demand.
Mattyp
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It comes to money in India, there's a reason the PS4 outsold even the One X there. Because piracy is so fucking easy on it while you can't crack the Xbox.
Ive been to India mobile gaming is king, but all the shops cater to piracy where copied games are like 0.10US for 360 or $1 for PS4.
Gamepass allows them to have current generation for very cheap, and since mobile gaming is king I would be surprised to see a tone of people using it for mobile over there. There's a very large middle class emerging in India as we speak alike China a decade ago, at the moment price rules all and buying a PS5 or X is still out of grasp with $70 games. A S and gamepass isn't but.
Daregroup
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Nintendo has zero presence in India lol, no retailers or official eShop heck it doesn't even accept our payment methods. I had to circumvent this using a friend's card from US. I love my switch but I wouldn't recommend it to a friend.
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