Will Xbox One succeed in China?

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Huo Lei has been in the video games business for over ten years. The 33-year-old has a shop in the Gulou area of Beijing, an area still snaked by the old alleyways that used to dominate the ancient capital.
On this street you can find hip music venues and bars, vintage clothes stores and a host of grey market video game shops. They sell modified Xboxes and PlayStations, and imported machines from Hong Kong, Japan, America and Europe. Some have been in business since the PS2 era; the golden era, the sellers say.
Since 2000 consoles had been officially banned in China; a 14-year veto during which the PS2 and Wii sold millions elsewhere, forever expanding the console market in western countries. On January 6th of this year, the State Council of the People's Republic of China decided to lift the ban of video game consoles.
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