wanderjahr
Banned
Well, when you only sell ~200 units a week in Japan, it's hard to justify a massive expenditure like that.
Microsoft to skip Tokyo Game Show 2015
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dddooozzz9
Neo Member
Tokyo Game Show 2015 = Tokyo PlayStation Show
Pancakes R Us
Member
Haha, what a hit. They'll be covering TGS on the blog.
makingmusic476
Member
Poor Scalebound.
01DragonFly
Member
update to current state of japan
Mr Friend29
Member
I swear I remember hearing that alot of the games we did not see at E3 were planning to be shown at TGS this year?
That would make the independent show make more sense no?
That would make the independent show make more sense no?
eerik9000
Member
Just to clarify some things:
Gamescom is mostly a consumer event (E3 is mostly media and retail) and Sony will be there with twice as much showfloor space as Microsoft. They just aren't doing a big press conference there this year, their European briefing will be at Paris Games Week in October.
Gamescom is mostly a consumer event (E3 is mostly media and retail) and Sony will be there with twice as much showfloor space as Microsoft. They just aren't doing a big press conference there this year, their European briefing will be at Paris Games Week in October.
LegalEagleMike
Member
Gamescom is what you heard
Mr Friend29
Member
Ah, thanks. Well then I guess it makes sense that they wouldn't attend TGS then
Because this is the closest to E3 Gamescom has ever been. Sony thought it better to space it out and do a conference at Paris Game Show instead.
I think this is true with PS4 games. There isn't going to be shit for Xbox.
Biggest TGS show but they have no games so what are they going to do? Make a huge booth with 500 stations of Scalebound?
Sony has their own event, Paris Game Show, and TGS. They also dropped gigatons at E3. They could afford some spacing.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Sony will have their full booth there like every year. So there will be more hands on with games and possibly questions on the show floor. They are just not doing a live press conference because it was only 6 weeks after E3.
They will have 3 live conferences all to themselves now. PGS, TGS, PSX.
Schweinehund
Member
Pretty crappy news but not unexpected. It's telling how much the console market is floundering in Japan.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
Well when the market doesn't really give a fuck about you what why would you bother?
Imperfected
Member
If they publish Japanese games themselves, the number of Japanese games they get will be equal to the number they publish. They might even be able to turn a profit on publishing them overseas, though it's not hugely likely.
If they continue with their current strategy, the number of Japanese games they get will instead be zero. The "foothold in Japan" strategy has never worked, even with a more popular console and high-profile exclusives, in a market environment where Japan was far more open to console gaming. To continue it instead of simply taking charge of international publishing is moronic.
Edit: If it's not clear here, I'm referring to JRPGs, rhythm games, and other "niche" Japanese games, rather than the handful of AAA Japanese titles that still get released. Though, I suppose as of SF5, even AAA Japanese games aren't guaranteed for X-Box if they don't step in to assist with publishing.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Ooh my!Of course not! It was packed to the rafters!
TransTrender
Gold Member
:dead:
If Final Fantasy bombs on Xbox One in North America, niche Japanese games certainly won't sell in continental Europe, last gen MS tried everything they could to be competitive in Europe including FIFA marketing & exclusive content, & the PS3 was far more expensive & it took four years for Gran Turismo to show up on the system, & that was when X360 was getting Japanese support in the first half of the gen.
If X360 failed taking into account everything I mentioned above, XB1 certainly won't reverse that. They need far more than PS4 ports of Japanese games, games that won't sell on the system anyway since the audience for Japanese games collectively decided that they'll buy those games on Playstation. They need exclusive GTA, FIFA, or Gran Turismo on their system to actually make a dent.
Even if they got the above 3 games exclusively, the best they'll do is sell considerably worse than PS4 instead of getting completely decimated, if you live outside of NA/UK you'd understand why, casuals buy Playstation in those regions because they associate that with gaming, if MS moneyhats FIFA people will just buy PES.
Acquiring 3rd party deals might not be related, but showing off Japanese games surely are, of which they have almost none coming.
I dunno should have never started even with the original Xbox.
I liked TGS 2014, and TGS 2015 could have some really cool stuff:
- Persona 5
- The Last Guardian
- Final Fantasy XV
- Star Ocean 5
- Danganronpa 3
- Dragon Quest Builders
- Dark Souls III
- CyberConnect2 stuff
- The Sega console game that was teased
- Gravity Rush 2 (?)
- Dragon Quest XI (?)
- Ace Attorney 6 (?)
Based on the support the platform is getting, evidently it is related.
Wat. Have you compared the announced japnese games on ps4 to the ones on the xbone? The japanese games consumers are on ps4 not xbone in the west.
Dammit. I'm going anyway. For Nakamoto Ramen.
This is an absolutely fascinating thesis.
This is an absolutely fascinating thesis.
FranXico
Member
And yet, the recurring narrative I hear regurgitated all over the internet is that "Sony isn't showing up at Gamescom because they've got nothing".
dddooozzz9
Neo Member
Please add NieR New Project
It will have more information in fall.
I guess it will be shown on TGS.
Edit: Maybe Bloodborne DLC will be shown.
Edit 2: Maybe we can hear LEVEL5's new title.
Edit 3: Also new Disaster Report
Nightengale
Member
Imagine if it has Morpheus support... O:
Apparently Berserk is returning to a monthly schedule.
It will return for 2 months and then on hiatus again lol
Fuck me...why did I never put two and two together, Platinum Games needs to make a full fledge Berserk game.
Prototype Viktor
Member
They didn't want to spend money on showing another scalebound trailerfuck
Level 5 game
Nier faoifnjaodiwpoi39w
Tales of Berseria
Final Fantasy 7 info is going to TGS as well(which also coincides with CC2 most likely)
Sony is killing it in regards to Japanese exclusives, at this point, its far beyond what MS managed to secure with money alone at the beginning of last gen
rokkerkory
Member
welp, that's a wrap
honestly I don't blame them, they will never have a chance in japan
honestly I don't blame them, they will never have a chance in japan
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I guess this begs the question, but where does the Xbox brand go on out from here? The recent job cuts in the hardware division don't bode well.
If I were in Sataya Nadella's shoes, I'd just take who's left in the hardware division and go all hands on deck for a fourth-gen Xbox. Learn from your mistakes, do a full-on postmortem on what Sony's doing right with the PS4, learn from there, and take it from there. No compromises. No surrender.
Maybe change the name, if the Xbox brand is beyond repair at this point.
Accelerate the release schedule, put it at fall 2017 for now and move it up or down depending on what the Nintendo NX looks like.
What say you guys? Can anything be done?
I guess you weren't around when the PS3 launched. You must have been in you second job right? /s
They don't need to change the name or anything. They have had a terrible launch and lots of bad pr. They are on the right direction now.
When it comes to Japan, its a losing battle no matter what.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I just wonder if it's too little, too late, before the investors force Nadella's hand...
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
oh no
now they're never gonna win japan
now they're never gonna win japan
lol, first it's Microsoft killed 2D shooting games, now it's the entire Japanese console industry.
juicyfruitas
Member
You forgetting the big gun --
Latest demo build of Summer Lesson - shit's gonna destroy a lot of people in Japan