Consoles Sluggish To Get Online In Europe

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @02:21PM from the slow-boat-to-bournemouth dept.

Thanks to Evil Avatar for pointing to a Reuters article discussing the relatively slowly developing online console gaming market in Europe. According to the article, "Since launching in mid-March, [Microsoft] has signed up to Xbox Live 50,000 European gamers across much of Western Europe." As a comparison, "Microsoft and Sony Corp have.. [signed up] over one million subscribers between them in the U.S. since launching services in the second half of 2002." Although it's early days for Europe, will the many separate markets/countries and varying broadband penetration help or hinder the big console manufacturers?

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So.. by dr+ttol · 2003-06-18 14:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Is it racism or discrimination, or all three if I'm playing Battlefield 1942 online and I'm playing as the Japanese since I live in the Japan, and playing on an American server and all the Americans are, naturally, Americans? Is it betrayal and dishonor if I play as an American fighting the Japanese?