The United States was easy. Europe was slightly harder. But Japan has always seemed nearly impenetrable for Microsoft's Xbox gaming platform.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Microsoft has been making a habit lately of not winning over ANY gamers except for children and soccer moms and people satisfied with the same 3 franchises every year.
Disagree as much as you want, but what games has MICROSOFT (not multiplats) been making for you, gamers, other than Halo, Forza, and Gears? Banjo Kazooie? Hah, abandoned. Alan Wake? Forgotten. Crackdown 2? Garbage. Fable series? Thrown to the casual dogs (Fable Heroes and Fable Journey). JRPGs? Vanished. Ninja Gaiden? Multiplat and crap. Mechwarrior? Nowhere to be found.
I think Microsoft have come to terms with Japan just not being as interested as elsewhere. Heck, even two JRPGs by Hironobu Sagaguchi couldn't change that.
Microsoft doesn't really care about Japan as a territory because Japan doesn't care about Xbox.
Nothing Microsoft do will win over the Japanese now. Time to wait until next gen and then give it another shot.
Perhaps they're simply waiting for the right time to announce games in Tokyo Game Show once they've announced their new next gen console. It does seem a little pointless now trying to win back in Japan. Although, this tactic isn't doing them any favours.