Xbox One Launch Pushed Back in Several Countries

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This is great news. There wont be an split up between PS4 and Xbone players everyone can play with their friends, Thanks MS!

yet again Microsoft fail to see the bigger world market, like the zune that never made it out of america it's going to cause a long term hurt for the xbone.

At least with a common EU market they can be freely imported.

Belgian, don't care.

This story's as fishy as hell. Localisation can't be that difficult and an absence of apps seems like a thin excuse: after all, Wii TVii still isn't available in Europe, and there's no date set for it. Hard to see Microsoft ceding a huge market lead to Sony over either of those things.

Hehe, don't hold your breath. Most console manufacturers and software publishers haven't clued into the differences between Castellano and Latino Spanish, and the 360 doesn't have distinct options for American and UK English in the system settings (they do, however, have a QWERTY keyboard English...). I'm guessing laziness will rule the day and you Siss folk'll have to use the German dialect. While I'm not sure there's as many differences as the the two examples I've posted, but I can't imagine it'll be fun trying to parse out the meaning of random things....

As others have already pointed out, it's pretty clear Xbox One is made for the American market only, so as a Dane I can't really help but to feel completely indifferent to this news.

As others have already pointed out, it's pretty clear Xbox One is made for the American market only, so as a Dane I can't really help but to feel completely indifferent to this news.

If it is, MS knew, or should have known ahead of time and made allowance for that in their ramp up to release. It's like they took Sony's PS3 launch and though to themselves: 'how can we do even worse?' Gamers are growing increasingly intolerant to staggered international releases, and it doesn't help that this will likely be a difference of weeks, even months, not a few days.

There's companies such as UPC, but you're right, the EU cable market is far from monolithic. I mean, how many providers do we have in NL alone?

I don't buy that the localization is a valid reason for such delays. Maybe the situation for this TV stuff is a bitch to do in europe.

Anyway its a big "MS dont care" for those countries.

I,m guessing this has to do with working out "TV deals" in all these different countries, since as far as I know there Isn't any pan european broadcast network, so individual deals will have to be made for each specific teritory. Since I got burned by MS with faulty sub standard launch hardware this generation I can't say I,m too bummed they won't launch here in NL in 2013. I'm more curious to know if places like Poland and other teritories will get support further down the line.
Anyway another glorious move by MS to win hearts and minds

Seriously, MS is making it stupidly easy.

Good thing I've reached the point of actively not wanting one already, then. This just means I probably won't have to play one at my friend's house, either, since nobody in Denmark is going to buy the bloody thing now.

@jimmy_p: I'm buying one and I live in Europe, you're welcome ;)

Ok good thing I am not from :

Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden or Switzerland.

The only place I can see the PS4 being pushed back is Japan, mainly because it's more likely for me to win the lottery, get struck by lightning, win the lottery again and be given a free Xbox One in the same day than for Microsoft to make a dent in the region. Seriously, Sony's got fuck-all to worry about from Microsoft in Japan.

@zeekthegeek said:

Pretty much this. Only the xbots are going to be giving Microsoft a pat on the back for bowing down to the immense pressure put on them from their attempt to fuck consumers over, so any media outlets telling you that Microsoft has the edge now are revealing just how partial they are. And let's be honest, how much of the Xbone's power are you going to be able to use without buying a real dev kit? Are you making real Xbone games or Windows 8 apps? That has to be answered sooner than later.

Had the image said "The World According to Microsoft," I'd not mind, and likely would be laughing at how accurate it is. However, it says "The World According to Americans," which conveys a very different message, one that is laughably narrow-minded and relies entirely on anti-American sentiment for its humor value. Labels such as "Communists" and "evil-doers" on the rest of the map suggest that the original piece was not meant to mock Microsoft either, but to use the tired "Americans are xenophobes and morons" trope that seems so popular nowadays.

I hate this xbox!!! Xbox360 is way better•_•

Xbone done in europe.

Great, now I don't have to choose between them anymore; I'll just get the PS4. Thanks Microsoft.

That pretty much seals the deal for me. I've got money set aside for two game-related investments for this year. I'll just give Microsoft's slot to a PC upgrade.

@superfriend: I suspect the english-speaking countries are safe, including the UK (where I live), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canda. I've got my xbox-one pre-ordered and would be more than hacked-off if they wanted me to wait months after paying my deposit & making sure the full amount for my money is already saved-up.

This won't endear MS to a LOT of retailers in the affected countries, to say the least. It pretty much sealed the deal for me as well. Sony, here I come...

Here's a tip, MS: Pretty much everyone in the countries your shafting speaks English as a second language. You don't really need to localise the interface, and even if you did, just make sure you freaking start that process in time for release. Everything about this announcement, from the localisation to the content deals (and who wants to bet we're still getting less than NA?) in fact sounds like extremely poor planning on Microsoft's part.

Fuck Microsoft.

This just means the european launch lineup will be so much better, you guys!

Also, theirs and Ubisofts mandatory localization is abysmal so making that as the excuse is just an added kick in the nuts to your fanbase.

Hopefully i can order one from amazon.co.uk, cause this suuuuucks!

Is this so they can get more consoles in the US maybe. The language thing culd just be patched in. The ones that will get it at first probebly know some english. Maybe it's that scandinavian cunterys are not that much in to gaming..? Oh wait. They are.

Hmm makes me wounder if the PS4 will be pushed back in some regions/countries too...

@trafalgarlaw said:

@isomeri said:

@onan said:

@isomeri said:

This was a real bummer until I realized that Amazon.co.uk is still taking pre-orders and they will ship to Finland at least. Bought mine a minute ago.

From what I understood, the xbone is region-locked based on IP address when you connect to update (and back when you were going to connect every 24 hours. You could potentially have a friend in the UK update it there for you, or set up a VPN to the UK, but you'd also have to convert your Finnish Xbox Live account to a UK based one, which I've read some nightmare stories about, and also continue to import all future games from there outside of region-free stuff you can get from play-asia.

I dunno, doesn't seem worth it to me.

You can use the Xbox One with a local account (Finnish, Russian, Swedish etc.) and buy digital games with that account. They just won't be selling the physical boxes here until 2014 and you obviously can't use it in your local language until then.

Nope, wrong on all accounts.

Well that's a little queer. I got my information from a forum post and tweet by a Finnish Xbox PR person. All of it is in Finnish so there's probably no need to link it here. I guess this is another case of the mixed Microsoft marketing we've grown used to this year.

Oh and several Finnish stores including the biggest online retailer Verkkokauppa have already pledged to sell the console in 2013 despite the official launch plans.

DRM Reversal is them reacting to bad news and trying to get on-par with the competition. Hardly good news, more neutral news. Ditto for the self-publishing. Dev kit thing is cool but only if you're a dev who wants to put a game on a console that isn't launching in Asia or Europe.

If you are in Belgium, and really want a Xbone (I cant understand why), you can just drive one hour to France and buy it there.

@mkmalls23: "WE ACCEPT CREDIT CARD"

Oh I bet you do!

Anyone who was going to buy an XBox One in Scandanavia can speak goddamn English and Microsoft knows this because 360 software localisation consisted pretty much exclusively of "Nordic" packaging and a minimalist manual with Danish/Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish pages. Everything in-game was, with very few exceptions, completely in English. Microsoft didn't lose sleep over this because they knew EVERYBODY HERE STARTS LEARNING ENGLISH IN FUCKING GRADE SCHOOL. For Microsoft to cite localisation as an excuse is such bullshit because localisation is TRIVIAL. It smells more like a hardware shortfall to me.

@trafalgarlaw: Do you get irony? It looks like you're a much larger bigot and xenophobe than the people you are bashing for the same offense.

This just keeps getting worse...

What if they'd already ordered the 'day one edition'?

@yukoasho said:

@trafalgarlaw said:

Good to see there's still idiots out there flanderizing Americans. not sure if you're trying to be funny, but we're not as xenophobic as most non-Americans would like to believe.

In the case of Microsoft it's true though, they spent most of their console reveal talking about features that are clearly going to be US only and in the case of the TV stuff, maybe some of the UK will get that, and they were also designating many European countries as 'tier 2'.

They basically just eliminated the Xbox One from Europe, and that is ridiculous. Who else is left, Spain, France and UK? Although I don't think Microsoft consider the UK as part of Europe as they always seem to mention it separate. (and in a way, it's not even part of Europe)

This is going to be a tough battle for XBOne in it's first year when it's releasing alongside the PS4 and not reaching out to all the European countries when trying to get a foot hold in that continent could mean all the difference. Maybe it won't be that big a deal though and those other countries just have to wait till March next year.

More like Xbox None...

The Xbox One launch is looking more and more like it's gonna be a shit show. It's gonna suck, but man, it's gonna be so entertaining to watch.

So is it just a given at this point that Microsoft completely doesn't have their shit together for the next generation? Though in their defense, Sony ran full speed into a brick wall with the launch of the PS3, whereas Microsoft appears to just bumbling their way to launch.

@milkman said:

@trafalgarlaw said:

What does this have to do with the story?

Ah yes, the world according to stereotypes. Gotta love em'.

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).

@wipu said:

Amen brother.

I really don't think localization has anything to do with it. I think its an issue with the manufacturing of the whole damn thing from all the changes they recently have done.

So Switzerland is delayed. A country with a large German speaking population (60%), and French speaking population (25%). But it's still coming out in France & Germany.

Though if this is about the Kinect being able to detect languages, Swiss German should probably be it's own language. Schweizerdeutsch... ugh...

This will however not decrease the number of people getting stabbed while waiting in line for one.

Wow, as if Sony didn't have this one in the bag before, they certainly do now.

Also, caption on the photo made me laugh. What a photo. It's even funnier because Mattrick isn't even with the company anymore, but this photo will haunt him FOREVER!

I was expecting this to happen so not really surprised. All the conferences have been very very US focused, I can't speak for the whole country but in my area in Finland, none of that TV shit is even going to work. I guess they need more time to ramp up console production and more time to figure out how exactly are they going to try to expand to that TV audience over here. 360 gold offerings were similarly pathetic.

I mean I don't care about any of that TV stuff, but if they want that bigger audience, they probably should.