I don't think they're going to matter all that much honestly. A majority of the 25 or so countries it hasn't reached yet aren't exactly huge Microsoft fans, I think Russia is probably the biggest for the most part and the rest of them are insignificant at best.
It's 25 countries Tom, I'm sure that's at least 2 million units right there.
The situation is kind of interesting right now as in the period following E3 interest in the Xbox One dwindled and interest in the Wii U skyrocketed - the current increase in sales wasn't caused solely by Mario Kart.To be fair, you're going to incur a lot of initial costs at the very beginning of a console's lifecycle. iirc, they sunk $100 million into designing the Xbox One's controller alone. The Xbox One is still doing alright sales-wise; it's at a firm second place, but it's close to catching up to the Wii U in half the time. It could be doing better, definitely, but its situation is far from dire.
Uh, I mean, XBOX ONE AND DONE!
No kidding - soon it'll reach first 10 million units sold - unprecedented success for a "first year on the market".
It's kinda like people arguing the superiority of 24 FPS in cinema - it's a matter of getting used to. Some people genuinely do "feel sick" during "majestic sweeps" or scenes with lots of motion filmed in 48 FPS simply because they've gotten so used to the slower standard that their brain expects motion blur instead of the sharpness of faster capture. Of course that doesn't mean that the slower framerate is superior - it's obviously inferior.
Of course. I mean, it doesn't take a genius - just move your head in any direction quickly and you won't see "sharp images", there will be blur involved.
