Xbox One Unplayable in 180 Countries

[Jamdude]

Unfortunately it seems that if you don't live in one of the only 21 countries supported by Xbox then you simply cannot have an Xbox One.

 

The article about this is here: http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=6438&game=None&title=Xbox%20One%20Will%20Be%20Unplayable%20In%20180%20Countries

 

 

[ExDreamer]

And xbone is region lock.Meaning citizens of this 180countries cant even import it if they want to.

[Skyfire]

So what exactly are they trying to achieve?

[nicholaswillems]

I live in a supported country, yay? Not that I planned on buying an xbone anyway :p

 

Like.. microsoft. What in the name of everything in existence? First Sony beats them on nearly everything. Sony laughs their asses off with hilarious commercials about sharing. Microsoft gives a console that is perfect to be used to spy, always online and always on-cam. And now this? So many people stopped their plans on buying an xbone and now they will restrict who can buy it.

 

They should just not release it, it won't make a lot of difference.

[Theo]

hahahahahah LOL. GG WP MS, ive no idea what they are trying to do with the xbox one, its like they want to play the console selling game, but in like god mode with the choices they have made, whereas sony is playing on easy mode, giving players what they want 

PS: Ive never owned a playstaton, but always an xbox, this will change

[smjpl]

It just keeps on getting worse and worse for Microsoft. I had an xbox 360 and I always thought it was better than the PS3. TBH I though MS was going to win the console war. Now... I have absolutely no intentions of getting and Xbox 1. I won't buy a console for a long time but when/if I do, I will be giving my money to sony.  

[MetEishYa]

Wow China, India and Japan are not supported, those 3 make up about half the worlds population. Its a good thing my country isn't supported, this will just make people here buy PS4s and PCs.

[Jamdude]

I really don't understand Microsoft's decisions regarding region locking and various other ridiculous features they have implemented.  It seems as though they are aiming the console at an extremely specific audience and anyone not in the audience has no way of getting their hand on the console anyway.

 

Everything Microsoft do seems to benefit Sony and The PS4.

[KieranThePCGuy]

This is not helping them in anyway, as others have stated, the always Kinect on, connect every 24 hours etc; this hasn't won them any points and now this. They "really" need to do something soon, I feel at the moment they have let the Xbox players down. Otherwise in my opinion Sony will own the next gen console market.

[The Declaimer]

This pushed me to the PS4 since the Xbox 360 is not officially supported here. But I do have access to LIVE since a country in close proximity has support for Xbox Live.

 

However, the PS3 was launched here officially.

[Artorias]

Wow... There only selling those in 21 countries and they expect to have over 400 million sales?

[TheRetiredSlave]

So were the letters "PS" that they put in those tweets actually a message telling people to buy the PS 4?

 

Anywhoo, I know that places like Sub-Saharan Africa wouldn't really be a large part of the market when compared to North America, but you'd think that they would allow individual people to import and use an xbox wherever they wanted to. It's not like it would cost them a lot of money to allow people to use a console wherever...

[gill2k]

Unfortunately it seems that if you don't live in one of the only 21 countries supported by Xbox then you simply cannot have an Xbox One.

 

The article about this is here: http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=6438&game=None&title=Xbox%20One%20Will%20Be%20Unplayable%20In%20180%20Countries

 

"They can always get the Xbox 360.  That's an offline machine" - Don Mattrick 

[tovleander]

Remember this 21 countries is only at launch (november 2013). Asia will get it late 2014

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2013/06/11/microsoft_to_launch_xbox_one_in_asia_in_late_2014

[mybeat]

Yay my country is not in the supported list.

[LinusTech]

Hilarious. Will discuss on live stream tomorrow.

[Akula]

1st World Countries, yay.

[pareshtiwari]

Great news, I hope India comes among those 180 countries. 

It would help me not get tempted and waste money on it.

 

** Razer Hydra : Worst buy ever

[TheArium]

Don't you think it'll expand as release dates are being announced in different countries?

[BAPEsta]

It's so entertaining, watching a company like Microsoft digging their grave deeper and deeper. 

Microsoft should win an award for "Best Comedy".

[Konn]

Wow China, India and Japan are not supported, those 3 make up about half the worlds population. Its a good thing my country isn't supported, this will just make people here buy PS4s and PCs.

Just because they have a higher population count, doesn't mean a lot of people will buy it there. In most Asian countries, the preferred console has always been the Playstation anyways. They usually import from overseas, never seen an Xbox in an Asian country in my life.

[ToxicPT]

Glad to know that Portugal will not be reachable, besides that we have some REALLY strict ISP rules  <_< (We get capped to 512Kb/s connection after using ~300GB of traffic and the standard Internet speed is 100Mb/s+)

[Visual Hudson]

I've just thought, although the Xbox One might be region locked or whatever, have they said anything in regards to whether or not it's up to the developers which regions the games will work in? 

Like, as far as I understand, with the Xbox 360, that is region locked however loads of games will work regardless of what region you're in without having to mod the console or anything. Because is that's how it is, it's exactly the same as it is now, then to be fair I'd have no complaints with that. Sure it's not quite as good as no region-locking at all, but it's better than nothing.

Here's a list of region-free Xbox 360 games, for those that're interested:
http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Region_Free_Xbox_360_Games

[Mophead]

I wanted to make a joke about Piracy but that would't fit in considering you could't casually "pirate" an Xbox 360 game and play it without any modification to the console itself..

[JordanMac]

ridiculous... ms has so much back pedaling to do its actually not even funny. at least more people will come to pc which will always be good.