If you had inhibitions about the sales of Xbox 360 in India, worry not as GameGuru.in has done a complete survey on the performance and the small tit-bits that go along with Microsoft's next-gen console, the Xbox 360.
The survey revealed shocking stats, but none as shocking as this, the Premium version, which is the expensive one is outselling the cheaper Core version. GameGuru.in called up all the dealers listed on the Xbox 360 India site. Here are some of the stats:
Total Xbox 360 sold: 839
Total Premium Versions sold: 458
Total Core Versions sold: 235
Total Xbox 360 Game CDs sold: 1359
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
Well I remember a news magazine in India or something making a review like thing for Xbox 360, stating the system is not much different from PlayStation 2, and also appeared to be unaware of HD-Output of the system.
Well total Xbox 360 systems sold: 839? Well, I think there are some other European and Asian counties which would inherit a next-gen system easier.
I am not saying that it is unnecessary to expand into India, but maybe it was not the right time for Indian consumers.
i wouldnt try selling a console where a lot of religions think things like this (consoles) are bad lol
but i guess if microsoft thinks 800 consoles sold is woth the hastle then what do u lol
839 consoles sold?? Does anybody know how long the 360 been on sale in that country??
Not so long, but still the number is laughable.
Read a bit more accurate guys...
"GameGuru.in called up all the dealers listed on the Xbox 360 India site."
The dealers listed on the site could be 1% of all dealers or shops. And it is the right time. It's the first foreign console that launched there officially. That's a big thing. Even if they don't sell incidently that much, their name is all around. Before it was only PC gaming, now it's PC gaming and 360. Wii and PS3 will follow, but MS still have the first mover advantage, especially for the name that will be spread on the news etc etc etc