With his company, Mistwalker, getting ready to release its second Xbox 360 exclusive RPG, Lost Odyssey, Hironobu Sakaguchi has claimed Microsoft has a big opportunity to generate serious hardware sales in Japan this Christmas.
Speaking exclusively in the latest edition of Edge magazine, Sakaguchi said Japanese gamers are taking their time warming to next-gen formats.
"Consoles like the 360 and PS3 have still to make a breakthrough in terms of sales [in Japan], and the market is very much about Nintendo," Blue Dragon's creator, Sakaguchi, told the magazine.
"The PS3 and Xbox 360 are clearly lacking titles to appeal to the Japanese gamer, but this is about to change, and the Xbox 360 in particular has an opportunity to prove itself at the end of the year. Its line-up is the best Microsoft has ever had in Japan."
"Its line-up is the best Microsoft has ever had in Japan."
I agree with that statement then again it wouldn't be that difficult to do.
Personally I don't really care how well x360 does in Japan since the major reason a bought the xbox and the x360 was for it's western developed games.
they just fell back to3k weekly sales, how is that rising.
halo3 and the elite was ther peak, and it d'nt outsell the ps3.
yeah some titles are coming, but the only n that could en spark a lil bit of sales is lost odyessy.
I could live where he does. Indenial, Japan. Must be a nice place.
I think his view is overly optomistic - not much of a suprise and he's currently earning his cash from Microsoft.
Still, lost odessy should be an OK title, but Its not gonna turn 360's fortunes around.
I far prefer the quirky output of the Jap studios to the churned out stuff of the west, so I'd prefer it if the 360 did generate a bit more support over there. No one has ever won the hardwrae wars with the US alone, and that's why MS has been so desperate to get the Japs onside... its a losing battle though, and by far the itles that excite me most ove rht enext year are all PS3.. Good job I got both! :)