@godmars no wonder that 80’s country song sound familiar I hope they seriously do justice to the Asian market their time around, they have to open up and bleed money to get them maybe give away a free year of game pass pc will get the ball rolling for them or it’s going to be the same story as the last 3 generations promises to renewed commitment on the Asian market and forget about it a year later 🤦🏿
It's a huge potential market. They have the funds to keep trying, and if at one point they succeed then the reward will be worth it (a large gaming community)
They have to. We can all see Xbox are pushing to become a service even more so than a platform soon. Long term investment now is probably worth it to have a foothold for the fully service future. They can't give up on the market over there now if they are to be trusted down the road.
They failed to gain any momentum even in the earlier 360 days back when they were actually really trying, If they couldn't make any ground with the likes of Tales of Vesperia, Eternal Sonata, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Tenchu Z, Chromehounds etc, I can't see them starting to now.
Microsoft imo why try still, like I understand presecene and all but you need at least one publisher or something like that or make new japanese games w japanese ppl, no Americanized japanese but purely japanese just be a Nintendo there not a Corp.
I think he means games that have zero western influence. Japanese developers that are not told change this or that to appeal to a global market and don't even put there games out in the west as the effort would be far to vast like a lot of Sony and Nintendo games that never come to the West
People need to stop acting surprised and outraged when Japanese games skip or stop releasing on xbox. Most of these games DON'T PERFORM WELL THERE, time to deal with this notion. Lord Phil had to fly 17 times to Tokyo just to convince $ Sega to port Yakuza & Persona. Time to get the hint already.
They just announced a whole bunch of Japanese games at TGS that are coming to GamePass. Games like blazblue, guilty gear strive, ni no kuni and a whole bunch more. Kojimas next new IP is an Xbox exclusive too.
Certainly doesn’t look like JP devs are skipping Xbox to me. More like they’re doubling down on it.
Those games are old that are on PS already. It would have been nice to see some never before seen new big budget Japanese exclusives coming to XB instead.
Yeah they announced a bunch of games that have been out in for some cases, years. Their only really redeeming quality is that they are all going to be coming to game pass which is great for budget gamers but as someone else pointed out, most of the new game reveals for actual new games that appeal to Japanese tastes are skipping Xbox.
So old games that were on the PS3 or released years ago?! Lots of games completely skipping Xbox completely. Go ahead and look how many TGS games are either exclusive to Playstation or Switch or only releasing on Playstation & Switch. Doubling down. Lol. Absolutely idiotic.
Yeah, years old and old PS3 japanes games coming to gamepass, i give it to Phil he keeps trying but the Japanese trowing some old bones to him. And how do you know what Hideo is making? Please enlighten me what Kojima is making, cous you are cleary guessing. Have you seen how many Japanse gams are exclusive for Playstation and Nintendo during the TGS? Keep dreaming,Orchad. They are not doubling down is wishfull thinking on your site. Theyr is no proof of that.
He can't see that. Microsoft impact in Asia is non existent. Every year is the same talk. Nothing changes. They need to pay millions to get games. Like they did with Kojima. If they need to pay 600k for a indie game, imagined what they are paying for japonese games...
@orchard PS is actually more existent compared to Microsoft if we are using semantics. Then Microsoft is nothing compared to ps millions of ps4/5s sold how many 200ks xbx/s so if we're going by that. Sony has more support automatically since they sold there look at SQEX they use raw data to see if xbox support is worth but to them it's Nile nonexistent.
"Also, you could actually say Xbox and PS are basically non-existent in Asia. Nintendo has completely wiped them both off the map there."
Not really. Last month PlayStation games accounted for over 25% of all games sold in Japan. Sure it's not like Nintendo but it's also not non-existent. And certainly not comparable to Xbox's position in Japan.
Looking at Famitsu hardware sales for the week of 9/5:
Switch 182,876 PS5 2,864 Xbox S|X 459
Hard to say anyone is selling well in JP other than Nintendo, sure MS are doing worse than Sony, but Sony's drop off in JP over the last few years has been insane - that is a bigger story than MS staying in largely the same position.
Was it up for renewal?
Dunno why mcsft still keeps trying over there lol.
Microsoft imo why try still, like I understand presecene and all but you need at least one publisher or something like that or make new japanese games w japanese ppl, no Americanized japanese but purely japanese just be a Nintendo there not a Corp.
The S makes for a nice little sidekick system. And lots of stuff coming to GP to appeal to the Asian audience.
People need to stop acting surprised and outraged when Japanese games skip or stop releasing on xbox. Most of these games DON'T PERFORM WELL THERE, time to deal with this notion.
Lord Phil had to fly 17 times to Tokyo just to convince $ Sega to port Yakuza & Persona. Time to get the hint already.