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Microsoft's Robbie Bach slams Japanese survey
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TheInkyVoid
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dark10x said:
Japanese people talk funny. FYI.
Andrew2 said:
Virtually all those games were also available on PS2, except PDO, Outrun and House of the Dead (and I believe Outrun's far more popular in the West than it is in Japan anyway?). Plus no-one wants to play the Nth iteration of PSO any more and Shin Megami Tensei 9 was crap, apparently.
Ergo, the PS2 wins.
Things could be different this time around, but to be honest I don't see any particular reason to get an X360 yet, especially from the Japanese point of view.
Cripes, this horse has been beaten into glue already.
Like Ive said before, MS should forget Japan. I think theyre spinning their wheels there. I think a much better strategy would be to capture the NA and European markets; and let Japan live in gaming isolation.
I mean, we dont tailor Hollywood or the music industry to Japanese tastes, why should we try to with games? Either they like them or they dont. The effort is commendable I suppose, but you cant make them like your games.
Like Ive said before, MS should forget Japan. I think theyre spinning their wheels there. I think a much better strategy would be to capture the NA and European markets; and let Japan live in gaming isolation.
I mean, we dont tailor Hollywood or the music industry to Japanese tastes, why should we try to with games? Either they like them or they dont. The effort is commendable I suppose, but you cant make them like your games.
Personally, I find Japanese gaming tastes to be odd. Maybe they feel the same way I do.
Maybe HokieJoe is right and MS should just forget about Japan. Who knows.
If the Japanese dev houses want to make the most profit, they will support all the major consoles.
Personally, I think it has to do with Japanese culture in general.
Maybe HokieJoe is right and MS should just forget about Japan. Who knows.
If the Japanese dev houses want to make the most profit, they will support all the major consoles.
bishoptl said:
Personally, I think it has to do with Japanese culture in general.
TheInkyVoid
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Dr_Cogent said:
That just isn't true.
Saturn and PC Engine did pretty nicely in Japan with no FF or DQ... So it's not impossible to get a nice share of the market without those 2 games... I'm actually kind of happy that MS is trying a bit more actively to court Japanese developers - right now X360 has enchant ARM, Tengai Makyo:Ziria, the 2 MistWalker games... each game on its own probably better than the regular Xbox RPG library =P
I can't say for certain whether or not that is true, but I personally HATE multiplatform projects at this time. We always end up with multiple products that aren't as good as they could have been had they focused on one machine.Dr_Cogent said:
Ubi's games this gen have all been rather unpolished, featured unstable framerates and were often filled with bugs. I do not wish to see things move in that direction...
Chances are, I wouldn't be purchasing multiple versions of the same game and I will own all systems. Multiplatform games do me no good. :\ I'm talking only from the perspective of someone who will play these products, however. It might be necessary for developers to stay afloat...
djtiesto said:
Hmmm even though you are right both systems had strong support from japanese 3rd parties. In the PC-Engine case, Hudson and Konami DID a lot for the system. In the Saturn case, we are talking about the SEGA system with the best JP-3rd party support. In the XBOX case the japanese 3rd party support pales...they have released games for it but they either were crap, didn't interest or were available on other platfforms.
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