Kotaku: "Microsoft has traditionally failed to sell Xboxes in Japan, so it could be safe to conclude that the publisher isn't all that interested in Eastern products. So we asked Microsoft vice president Phil Harrison: where are the Japanese games? His answer: we'll see more at E3."
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
"Hammerwatch II's journey to Xbox has been long and perilous. After first launching on Steam in the fall of 2023, the game finally turned up on PlayStation 5 last December. Since then, Xbox gamers who enjoyed the original Hammerwatch and the sublime Heroes of Hammerwatch have been anxiously awaiting their turn at the long-promised sequel. At last, the wait is nearly over because Hammerwatch II will hit Xbox and PlayStation 4 on April 23," says Co-Optimus.
Joe 'Three Sheets' Neate (Executive Producer): "As I’m sure you can imagine, when it comes to Sea of Thieves my days are full of numbers. Development costs, active servers, days until the next update… Sometimes, though, a truly extraordinary number stands out – a number like 40 million, which I’m incredibly pleased to say is the number of pirates who’ve now set sail in Sea of Thieves!"
Garrr... more people to walk the plank and send to Davey Jones locker.
would have been funny to release this on talk like a pirate day.
40 million have set sail...that's great. How many are sailing now? Monthly active users....when it actually matters. How many people purchased the game is another important number.
40 Mil across Stream, Windows 10, and Xbox. Healthy numbers for sure, but when PC is the biggest platform, I expected more. It’ll be interesting to see how it does on PlayStation. Very well could be double that player count in 6 months with PS too. It’s crazy for developers to skip the most popular platform, not sure why they’d want to, but they must have had their rea$ons.
" We also asked a Microsoft representative if the console will be region-locked—that is, if each system will only play games compatible with its specific region.
Their answer: no comment. "
Either Microsoft hasn't made a decision regarding such issue, or the console will be region locked and Harrison is attempting to limit the " gamer unfriendly " news.
Bullshit....No Japanese developers are going to support this. Unless it's the big guys like Konami
Haven't we heard this BS before from Microsoft when talking about Japan? Simply put the Japanese do not care for the Xbox brand & no matter how hard you say you are gonna be committed if people do not care they do not care.
No matter how many bullet hell games or visual novels you put on the Xbox One the majority of Japan can care less. Heck that box is so massive it'll barely fit in a Japanese home.
MS should leave japanese crap for Sony and make western players happy instead.
People in America aren't going for what MS's X1 is offering I strongly doubt the Japanese will.