MS trying to sell Xbone in China.

Now that consoles are legal in China, everybody’s trying to figure out how to get into the market, and it sounds like Microsoft is on the fast track to a China launch. According to a recent BesTV (百视通) earnings call, Microsoft has already set up a joint-venture company in China with BesTV, and will announce the details of the Xbox One’s China launch this month.

The device is expected to launch in China this July, and BesTV is expecting to sell at least 100,000 units.

New CEO

According to BesTV, Microsoft will be appointing the new company’s CEO, so long as it can find someone who meets BesTV’s three conditions: that he or she be able to speak Chinese, understand the Chinese market, and understands Microsoft. The CEO Microsoft picks will also be announced this month.

New games

The joint venture company will also be working on domestically produced game content; both console games and online games. These games will be everything from shooters to exercise games, and will feature different monetization systems like paid downloads or for-purchase in-game equipment.

Lower prices

Perhaps most interestingly, BesTV says that domestic Xbox One games will be cheaper than their overseas counterparts. In fact, company executives said in the conference call that they would cost less than 300 RMB, which means they’ll be under $50 (new games cost around $60 in most countries outside China).

Less censorship?

It also sounds like the game censorship and approval process may be shortened or circumvented somewhat. Since the company will operate in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, the games approval process will fall to a local Shanghai administrative department rather than the national Ministry of Culture. This may mean that Chinese gamers will have access to less-censored foreign games than was previously possible, or at least access to games that are released in China closer to their global release dates, but it also may not make any practical difference whatsoever.

http://www.gamesinasia.com/microsofts-xbox-one-plans-in-china-cheap-games-less-censorship/

This might be the most stupid thread I've seen.

"Company trying to sell console tries to sell console!"

Lelelellele

You never know, they may actually crack that market.... That being said, how do you compete with free?

Yeah maybe.

Piracy is a HUGE problem in China. Don't know how this will turn out.

lol

This is China we're talking about.

And are you still butthurt about the NPD results?

Seriously.

Good God.

Chinese people cannot be fooled, they will always look for something cheaper and stronger and good quality. Thats the PS4

Old.

Also lol good luck introducing a console with an online paywall for everything into a market dominated by smartphones and F2P MMOs.

I didn't think the PS4 was launching in China just yet......

If anyone can save the Xbone, it's China.

Trying to sell more systems is bad.

Cows logic.

@Suppaman100: What happened in NPD you twat and why should I be butthurt?

Wonder how they'll like Kinect(lol)?

Xbone has a lot of potential saviors..

Cloud, DX12, Secret Sauce, Kinect 2.0, and now China.

@FastRobby: Ahh, I see. Thanks for the catch up.

Xbox One and PS4 will both flop in China if they try oppening that market. The PC market is SO established there. The average gamer there plays competitive games like CS and espevially DOTA. there's no appeal in playing a AAA game translated from english

No shit.

Considering the counterfeiting problem is so bad in China that you don't even know if you are getting real meat at the grocery store, I doubt that MS is going to get the results they want. They may sell consoles, but good luck selling games.

Even if they try to make the games online-only, they will just import games from everywhere else, copy them and play them on a cracked console.

Does China even need water coolers?

It needs water for a start.

The Chinese Master Race will reject any overtures from the console peasant overlords.

PC glamers for rife.

This.

I've heard Microsoft is also developing automatic sauce dispensers for the Chinese market.

Xbone open source incoming.

what most american multiplayer online chatters dont realise that chinese gamers are 10 times as loud trash when you give them a mic headset

What a bad thread.

@Suppaman100: Old news. i posted this last week. lol!!

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/xbox-one-launching-in-china-in-july-100k-units-31214057/#30

No one knows how China will accept game consoles. Just a lot of guessing in this thread.

they basically selling a tv box with a lot of features that doesnt work outside of USA

scam

@Suppaman100:

I doubt they will be able to crack the PS4. I'm thinking by now that Sony has come up with a way to prevent thieves from cracking the console. The Xbone might actually be a little easier to crack. I'm really shocked when I hear how huge the problem is with China. I really don't think they should deal with them at all. I figured by now they would have produced their own Xbone. lol

No one has an uncrackable system.

OP is still mad that PC is king every gen according to GS facts

Lemmings do know you can only buy consoles in Shanghai right? You also know China is extremely nationalist and has very different tastes then the west?

Look at Japan they are very pro west and yet xbox hardly sells.

Did you know most Chinese people have less then 10,000 a year to live off of?

It will sell a few thousand units at best.

Xbox One has better security than the PS4. If they can hack into it the PS4 should be no problem.

http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/xbox-hacked-homebrew/

You are such a joke. They listed TitanFall sales as Xbone and PC together! How many copies sold on Xbone only? Answer that and you may know what you are on about. I would not be surprised if it was less than Infamous. Oh and what were the release dates again? How much longer was Titanfall out then Infamous? Almost sounds like a flop the more I think about it. Titanfall family sales. Hahaha

Does it really matter?

They aren't as nationalistic as you think in terms of buying their own brands. Ex. their taste in cars like Lexus, Audis, etc. during my visit at Beijing.

While a lot of their people are poor, but they also have a population that is more than 4 times the pop of the states. I'm assuming the city people are well off too, I seen less hobos around than back here.

However I think it will still sell a few thousand though, the reason being... \/ look below \/

@FastRobby: just like they knew what they were doing in japan right?

@FastRobby:

relevant to the topic

That has not been proven yet.

Not only would thse nextgen system no have many of their features for the Chinese models, but like 50% of the game that come out for the system will either be censored or banned in China.

China is not an easy market

World is bigger than US chump. Maybe you should get out a bit. Oh and what you thought and reality are two different things. If you really are 24 you should get back to school.

Oh and your numbers mean nothing as they are over 2 systems not one.Your such an idiot.

I would say it matters greatly to MS wouldnt you?