Do you think HALO MCC or Sunset Overdrive will change something with these numbers ?
Halo is not a big franchise in germany. It was only on #19 in the 2012 YTDs. Heck even Modern Warfare 3 (PS3), which was released a year before outsold it clearly (not to mention LANDWIRTSCHAFTS SIMULATOR!). And sunset overdrive won't be a big seller, I guess.
The 360 was somehow successfull because it catered to the more active harcore games (as said before) and was released 15 month earlier. In german gaming boards it felt like 90% were playing on 360, while it was the other way around with the more casual gamers. Due to overshipping you could get it really cheap, and they had the cheapo box without hdd for the kids who couldn't afford the ps3. But the 360 was more or less a third party games only console.
When Halo 1 was released, most people looked down on it, because germany has such a strong pc market and playing a FPS without M&KB was considered a sacrilege. That poor PC port of Halo 2 didn't help either. MS once said in an interview that if you release a game for PC in germany, the 360 version will bomb.
Big MS exclusives:
1. Gears of War 1 & 2 - never released here
2. Crackdown 1 & 2 - never released here
3. Forza is not that popular because of the huge european GT fanbase.
4. Fable 3 - released for PC
5. Alan Wake - not a big title, but was released for PC too
Third Party (timed-)exclusives
1. Mass Effect 1 - Most RPG/Bioware fans in germany play on PC.
2. Bioshock - Spirtual successor of System Shock? - A PC title and also a RPG-like
3. Left for Dead 1 & 2 - Also on PC
... etc. pp.
That's not MS' fault per se. Gears and Crackdown couln't be released because of the german rating system. A censored version would have probably been a better decision
A reason for the success of the 360 was that MS brought a lot of PC games to consoles.
But that didn't work in germany, people played those games on PC. So if you were not part of the 360 super hardcore audience, it felt to the average german gamer that MS had no exclusives at all.
On the other hand: Sony had a lot popular first party exclusives and they sold all pretty well. Even titles like Beyond 2 souls which did poor in the US sold very well here.
Situation in german gaming boards has changed too. All core gamers seem to have switched sides, even the biggest Sony haters. I don't know what MS can do to change that. I said back in december that WiiU should outsell the One after the launch craze, which is apparently happening if you go by software charts. And nintendo has their niche. If amiibo works out and they can get a price cut, One might not overtake the WiiU in germany.