Rogue_Ledr
Banned
All those XB1s will make for a nice display in stores. Pile em high!
Xbox One Launching 9/4 in Japan
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IdreamofHIME
Member
3rd time's a charm!!
Dead Prince
Banned
or the curse of the third.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
Dead or Alive XTreme Beach Volleyball 3!
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
wonderflick(free2play rpg) is already confirmed for XB1.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Wonderflick is coming to xbox one so that may be the level 5 game
Syphon Filter
Member
LowerLevel
Member
I said it before, I'll say it again... The RETURN of True Fantasy Online!
yeah right, who am I kidding! So sad now...
Oh, Wonderflick... (sigh)
Monster Hunter Or Devil May Cry I say
Dreamgazer
Member
At the start of the second term of most Japanese schools?
why?
why?
god i can't wait for the numbers
Microsoft looking to break sales records with this one. You thought a console couldn't sell less than the 360 in Japan? They will break their record with this.
Seriously though, most Japanese exclusives they moneyhat will probably be stuff Japanese people won't care about, but westerners might.
Seriously though, most Japanese exclusives they moneyhat will probably be stuff Japanese people won't care about, but westerners might.
LukasTaves
Member
OMG, Level 5?
Hopefully it's proper support this time.
Hopefully it's proper support this time.
What region would that be?
Maximilian Kolbe
Member
Well i don't even know old Xbox sold more than 360
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
You guys realize japenese publishers want this, right?
They want their dev teams to be very familiar with the architecture, so they do not get left too far behind in western markets. The more prevalent the support system is for the Japanese market - the more MS puts boots on the ground there - the easier it is for their devs to get feedback and development resources. If they are launching in the regional market, then MS allocates budget to the region, than pubs can co-lab with MS for marketing support, dev support, co-publishing, etc. It's a big business, and being in that region has as much B2B implications as it does B2C.
To echo someone above, there is always a market.
You just need to know how to find it.
Why anyone wouldn't want this is kind of baffling to me, especially if they want more Japanese support in the West.
Where do you think games like Lost Odyssey, Dead Rising 3, etc, come from?
They want their dev teams to be very familiar with the architecture, so they do not get left too far behind in western markets. The more prevalent the support system is for the Japanese market - the more MS puts boots on the ground there - the easier it is for their devs to get feedback and development resources. If they are launching in the regional market, then MS allocates budget to the region, than pubs can co-lab with MS for marketing support, dev support, co-publishing, etc. It's a big business, and being in that region has as much B2B implications as it does B2C.
To echo someone above, there is always a market.
You just need to know how to find it.
Why anyone wouldn't want this is kind of baffling to me, especially if they want more Japanese support in the West.
Where do you think games like Lost Odyssey, Dead Rising 3, etc, come from?
Syphon Filter
Member
360 sold more than og xbox.
family_guy
Member
Platinum loves the underdog don't they?
Syphon Filter
Member
Phil doing work.
Dead Prince
Banned
well wii u/vita had huge list. not like list matters.
Some people really don't like the thought of exclusives coming out on platforms they never planned on buying.
Syphon Filter
Member
Too bad,that's how it always is anyways.
LowerLevel
Member
Hmm SquareSoft. Could it be possible MS got over themselves and added the possibility of FFXIV to go along with FFXV? More wishful thinking on my part, I know...
Sakura
Member
In Japan? I was pretty sure it sold less.
Platinum loves whoever is willing to fund their games.
Dead Prince
Banned
KH3 and XV. that's as far as they'll go unless they plan to fund einhander
LowerLevel
Member
You're ruining my summer...
R3TRO
Member
First time I laughed all day haha.
Pretty surprising to me, if so. I always assumed it was the other way around.
Pretty much this. Fingers crossed for Vanquish 2!It ain't happening
Bayonetta 2 Sigma!
LowerLevel
Member
Add in that every box theoretically can be a dev kit soon as well...
Maximilian Kolbe
Member
Well i just check 2ch database,og Xbox sold ~500k,360 seems sold around 1.6m right
The fact they they'll sell x number of units isn't in question. The cost to bring the console to a new market is. They will sink tens of millions of dollars on marketing, logistics etc, which might only net then thousands of consoles sold. This has been the case in some European countries.
As others have said, it's more to keep Japanese publishers and devs on side, than selling successful product to a specific market. I'd imagine that Japan would be a huge loss to MS, as the sales wouldn't make up for the other costs. But I very much doubt that is their goal.
It's going to be a depressing generation if all of them choose the Xbone over the PS4 just because that's where everyone went last gen. :-/