Why don't any of the big 3 market their consoles more in China and India? Combined, the two countries make up more than a third of the world's total population. You'd think they'd be trying harder to sell their consoles there.
Market consoles in China and India.
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Console gaming is heavily regulated in China and Tencent has a strong monopoly on mobile gaming that "encourages" people to blow money on mobile gaming.
This, definitely. Plus the usual propaganda garbage that they can't have games released there which might 'taint' the precious and fragile psyches of the best people in the world or whatever BS the CCP comes up with.
Less hyperbolic is the cost of the console in the first place. Console gaming is a first world luxury far beyond most other past-times which also doesn't suffer as much from being status symbols as other things. Further, the buying power of the local currency (in terms of necessities) far outstrips its actual value in international currency markets. Compound that with the median (not mean/average, please note, but even then...) salary in these countries is way, way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay lower than what is remotely comfortable to make even a casual habit of console gaming. For those who can afford to do any gaming, it needs to be multi-functional to get most value out of it. Given what's available, consoles can only be for gaming which makes them not worth the cost.
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New consoles are luxury items that a lot of people in India can't afford.
India's per capita income is less than $1800 US dollars. Lots of places in India don't even have reliable electricity or running water 24 hours a day. 3/4 of the population of India live in rural areas.
A huge population is great, but what you actually want is a huge population that can afford to buy your product. You think someone in India is going to spend 1/4 to 1/3 of their income on a console?
India's per capita income is less than $1800 US dollars. Lots of places in India don't even have reliable electricity or running water 24 hours a day. 3/4 of the population of India live in rural areas.
A huge population is great, but what you actually want is a huge population that can afford to buy your product. You think someone in India is going to spend 1/4 to 1/3 of their income on a console?