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Here's the relevant excerpt:

The problem is that it doesn't really take the path. The year 2023 is particularly catastrophic for Microsoft in terms of console sales. We previously mentioned the ratio of 80% / 20% for PlayStation and Xbox sales in Europe. But it gets worse: in 2023, in France, we are getting closer to a 90% / 10% ratio. That the Xbox Series shows a severe drop in its European sales in September 2023 compared to September 2022, despite improved supplies, the release of Starfield , and while PS5 sales explode, says a lot about the situation.

There's a lot more info in this French article so I strongly recommend giving it a read.

Microsoft et la quête du leadership – Ludostrie

Après la bataille contre les régulateurs pour le rachat d'Activision Blizzard, où en est Microsoft dans sa quête pour dominer le jeu vidéo ?

ludostrie.com

 

[Cert.in.Death]

French disdain for America is real

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Who cares about France? Give me those freedom fries!!!

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Considering that PC market was 28%, mobile gaming was 26% and 46% was console gaming (mainly PS + Nintendo), it makes sense that Xbox's marketshare is low due to day 1 PC support.

Microsoft should continue to acquire more as lower market share gives them that opportunity.

 

[Hudo]

French disdain for America is real

Wait until someone tells them that Playstation HQ is situated in California.

 

[winjer]

So Starfield and Redfall didn't help change the tide...

 

[TheGodfather07]

No surprise there. According to Microsoft themselves it's 80/20 accross Europe and its probably getting worse for them. Even in the US its almost 2 to 1 so far this year and its usually alot closer there. Last year xbox was quite close. They fell off a cliff this year.

 

[PanzerCute]

French disdain for America is real

No.

Source: I am French

 

[DrFigs]

I am against the Activision/Blizzard deal. But occasionally I read things like this and I think that it's maybe not so bad for competition.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

No.

Source: I am French

Depends on which parts of America. Everyone holds disdain for Californians, even Californians.

 

[Xtib81]

Xbox has never been popular in France (and Europe) not sure the situation is now much worse than before.

 

[ungalo]

I think it's pretty much the same everywhere in Europe, maybe less in the UK.

In France 360 was pretty popular at one point but since then the decline was constant.

 

[GHG]

Microsoft should continue to acquire more as lower market share gives them that opportunity.

This is laughable.

Giving a bigger slice of the market to the business whose products consumers around the globe keep on rejecting is what you want for what reason exactly?

 

[BootsLoader]

Wait until someone tells them that Playstation HQ is situated in California.

I think that it is more like "it is a US company" and "it is a Japanese" company in the core.

 

[PanzerCute]

Who cares about France? Give me those freedom fries!!!

We talk every week about the UK, which is about the same size as the French video game market, so why would it not matter?

France is 7th biggest video game market in the world.

We are obviously dwarves compared to the US but still.

Xbox has never been popular in France (and Europe) not sure the situation is now much worse than before.

Xbox 360 was huge in France, but everything collapsed with the Xbox One disgrace.

Depends on which parts of America. Everyone holds disdain for Californians, even Californians.

Only thing I can tell you is that the "anti US" feeling in France is BS, except for some retarded leftists.

 

[Aion002]

I guess it's time for MS to acquire Ubisoft and Asobo Studio.... Otherwise it won't be "fair" for Xbox against the competition.

 

[Dcr1d3r]

Yeh that drop-off's pretty frightening...not quite sure what MS's end game is for the last 2 generations tbh... But whatever it is, it needs some stop gap bundles, deals or promotions to try and plug that ever increasing gap! Cmon MS FFS!!

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

We talk every week about the UK, which is about the same size as the French video game market, so why would it not matter?

France is 7th biggest video game market in the world.

We are obviously dwarves compared to the US but still.

Xbox 360 was huge in France, but everything collapsed with the Xbox One disgrace.


Only thing I can tell you is that the "anti US" feeling in France is BS, except for some retarded leftists.

I was just fuckin around. 7th biggest isn't bad.

 

[MoreJRPG]

What's the split between Nintendo and PlayStation, that's the actual figure that matters because Xbox has been dead in Europe since the 360.

 

[gokurho]

Here's the relevant excerpt:

There's a lot more info in this French article so I strongly recommend giving it a read.

Microsoft et la quête du leadership – Ludostrie

Après la bataille contre les régulateurs pour le rachat d'Activision Blizzard, où en est Microsoft dans sa quête pour dominer le jeu vidéo ?

ludostrie.com

LOL
meaningless number
We Xbox does not focus on the number of units sold

 

[ungalo]

Only thing I can tell you is that the "anti US" feeling in France is BS, except for some retarded leftists.

I'm not sure it's limited to that but in any case, american products are not boycotted by the public or anything that's for sure. I think Apple, Amazon, etc are happy in the french market.

 

[Venom Snake]

Vive la France!

 

[Dick Jones]

Fake news based on the wrong metric. How many French people engaged with the possibility of buying an Xbox? That's the real engagement numbers conspicuously absent from the article.

 

[RoboFu]

So we have moved from Spain to UK to now France? lol

 

[Heisenberg007]

Considering that PC market was 28%, mobile gaming was 26% and 46% was console gaming (mainly PS + Nintendo), it makes sense that Xbox's marketshare is low due to day 1 PC support.

Microsoft should continue to acquire more as lower market share gives them that opportunity.

So you want to lock more games to the platform with the smallest user base so people are forced to buy another piece of hardware they didn't need or want before?

Please explain how that is friendly to gamers and not just for the benefits of a trillion dollar corporation?

 

[jroc74]

This is laughable.

Giving a bigger slice of the market to the business whose products consumers around the globe keep on rejecting is what you want for what reason exactly?

So you want to lock more games to the platform with the smallest user base so people are forced to buy another piece of hardware they didn't need or want before?

Please explain how that is friendly to gamers and not just for the benefits of a trillion dollar corporation?

You would think at some point logic and reason would kick in for some that keep thinking that way...and yet.....

 

[M1chl]

Who cares about France? Give me those freedom fries!!!

They are from Belgium, just BTW

 

[mansoor1980]

so close..................

 

[Roxkis_ii]

Op, don't you know the only metric Xbox and it's fans cares about is their studio count. The console sales being lower is just in service of ruining acquiring more studios and ip.

Having more studios and ip is how Xbox wins.... Right.. Right??

 

[lh032]

2027. Believe.

 

[jm89]

Phils gonna leave bond holding the handbag.

 

[Gudji]

Concerning. Guess they better buy more publishers.

 

[Thirty7ven]

So we have moved from Spain to UK to now France? lol

You want to keep the conversation to the U.S?

 

[Horseganador]

9:1

 

[jm89]

So we have moved from Spain to UK to now France? lol

Surley we can see a pattern emerging? While those regions are small by themselves, it adds up.

 

[Zheph]

I am against the Activision/Blizzard deal. But occasionally I read things like this and I think that it's maybe not so bad for competition.

why and how is it gonna help? Competition is good only in one way for some of you it seems

 

[GeoramA]

As usual, Sony the bully keeping poor MS from competing.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I am against the Activision/Blizzard deal. But occasionally I read things like this and I think that it's maybe not so bad for competition.

What competition?

 

[onQ123]

Xbox has never been popular in France (and Europe) not sure the situation is now much worse than before.

The article is about the situation being worse than before.

 

[PanzerCute]

Fake news based on the wrong metric. How many French people engaged with the possibility of buying an Xbox? That's the real engagement numbers conspicuously absent from the article.

Bro, when there were supposedly Xbox Series X shortage everywhere in the world you could find litteral towers of them in any big tech shops here in France. I bought mine like that. Except maybe for the 3-4 first months, there were never issues to buy SeX. The brand is not dead but in an abysmal shape here.

And that is sad tbh. I love my Xbox.

They are from Belgium, just BTW

No it is a French invention, I learned that not long ago which surprised me. But no one knows that in France (or care tbh) and we all say that its Belgian too. Like Kebab or burgers have technically been invented in germany but no one would say that they are german.

 

[balls of snow]

Yeh that drop-off's pretty frightening...not quite sure what MS's end game is for the last 2 generations tbh... But whatever it is, it needs some stop gap bundles, deals or promotions to try and plug that ever increasing gap! Cmon MS FFS!!

Transition off console for good. Its cloud and pc for next gen. Maybe a series s successor but thats it.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Just drop it already. This is embarrassing.

 

[Pelta88]

Unlicensed headsets next up on the chopping block. Have to recoup that revenue collapse somehow.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

The article is about the situation being worse than before.

Not directed towards you, but people should really watch that interview with Phil Spencer where he concedes to Playstation.

They lost last-gen and that was probably the decisive generation, due to the digital library people have been building and continue to build.

Xbox as a brand is nearing it's end, at least as we know it.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Just drop it already. This is embarrassing.

#NeverForget.

https://thisgengaming.com/2020/04/0...-xbox-have-a-plan-to-win-the-next-generation/

“I feel good about the price we’re going to be able to get to. I feel good about the price and the performance capabilities that we have for Series X. I feel incredibly strong about the overall package. We have a plan and we feel very solid about it. I believe we have a plan that can win [the next generation." -- Phil Spencer

(posting this in advance for when someone inevitably says, 'console sales do not matter to Microsoft now.')

 

[onQ123]

I guess the Xbox Love Boat got lost at sea

 

[onQ123]

Not directed towards you, but people should really watch that interview with Phil Spencer where he concedes to Playstation.

They lost last-gen and that was probably the decisive generation, due to the digital library people have been building and continue to build.

Xbox as a brand is nearing it's end, at least as we know it.

But I'm the guy who told everyone Xbox as a Console brand was dying before this generation started

 

[onnextflix5]

Is that not common knowledge, Xbox is only doing well in the us and the uk, not sure what they can do to change that.

 

[Fredrik]

Yeh that drop-off's pretty frightening...not quite sure what MS's end game is for the last 2 generations tbh... But whatever it is, it needs some stop gap bundles, deals or promotions to try and plug that ever increasing gap! Cmon MS FFS!!

It’ll be even worse next year when PS5 Pro comes out and Microsoft won’t have their Pro and will just wait for next gen to arrive instead.
They’ll have some games in the coming years and Gamepass should fill up nicely from Activision Blizzard, but the longer it takes for the upcoming big 1st party games to arrive the less they’ll have ready for next generation just like what happened this gen.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

But I'm the guy who told everyone Xbox as a Console brand was dying before this generation started

You were right. It was even quite obvious when MS fucked up the Xbox One announcement.