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South Africa and many countries in Latin America can afford to pay $400 for the console. But they certainly can't count on a >1.5mb/s reliable internet connect
by smutticus 13y ago
South Africa and many countries in Latin America can afford to pay $400 for the console. But they certainly can't count on a >1.5mb/s reliable internet connection.
So yeah, MS screwed the pooch on this one and that will now all be Sony territory.
- nknighthb 13y agoI'm not going to canvass all Latin American countries, but the median per-capita income for South Africa is about US$500. Are you unwittingly basing your comment on the standards of the still-privileged White minority, comprising less than 9% of a country of just 53 million?
- na85 13y agoRacial politics aside, 5 million people is a lot of potential MS customers.
- nknighthb 13y agoMaybe, but Microsoft/Xbox One was not the relevant subject, Steam was. Am I the only one who actually read the comment I originally replied to? By the way, even the top 10% of South African households have an average income of just US$15,000, so the actual potential customer base is still smaller than you think.
- mncolinlee 13y agoHaving just arrived back from South Africa from visiting my relatives on vacation, I was shocked to find a few highly computer-literate cousins over there who only had a 3G dongle to provide Internet for their entire homes. Another relative had a bandwidth-capped DSL line that was barely faster than ISDN basic rate. Income was not the issue.
- mikebludd 13y agoyou can get uncapped 4mb/s adsl for under R450pm in soweto and most middleclass suburbs from a multiple ISP.