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badgenome said:
Somini said:

It's ridiculous how funny you are, it really is! How the hell are you doing it?




I just have to say something irrelevant and admit...that Under Pressure is way better.



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Wright said:
badgenome said:
Somini said:

It's ridiculous how funny you are, it really is! How the hell are you doing it?




I just have to say something irrelevant and admit...that Under Pressure is way better.

Another one bites the dust is my favorite, but what the hell Queen was amazing fullstop :D



Somini said:
Wright said:


I just have to say something irrelevant and admit...that Under Pressure is way better.

Another one bites the dust is my favorite, but what the hell Queen was amazing fullstop :D


Gotta agree with there =P A shame I will never be able to go to a Live concert of these people anymore...



Somini said:

Another one bites the dust is my favorite, but what the hell Queen was amazing fullstop :D

My favorite is probably either "I Want It All" or "Who Wants to Live Forever?", and since we are getting off topic, I will just add that Queen is more successful than Microsoft in Japan or Nintendo in the West.



badgenome said:
Somini said:

Another one bites the dust is my favorite, but what the hell Queen was amazing fullstop :D

My favorite is probably either "I Want It All" or "Who Wants to Live Forever?", and since we are getting off topic, I will just add that Queen is more successful than Microsoft in Japan or Nintendo in the West.


 

Who waaaaants...to liiiive...FOREVAAAAAAAAAAH?



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WELL if JAPAN iS IRRELEVANT this will hurt much more Sony than Nintendo in terms of market share.

Without Japan Wii will still be number one but Sony will fall much below Microsoft!



Switch!!!

i think microsoft's relation to japanese developers is not that bad but if it comes to the customers, japanese really don't care about xbox.

but the xbox is a good example that systems without good sales just don't get many games. xbox doesn't get a lot of games in japan which come to ps3 but nobody is talking about that because everyone believes that makes sense (and it makes sense) but if wii u doesn't get some games in the western because those developers believe the games wouldn't sell enough people say "uhh those bad third party developers hate nintendo, they are so unfair!"

the only reason microsoft got some japanese games the first time was because microsoft paid a lot of money for that, otherwise xbox would have had the same support in japan as wii u has in western and i can absolutely understand that from a japanese developer's perspective.

€dit: some people here say microsoft still get all the japanese games but really? all the time a new game releases in japan for ps3 i think "ahh one more game not for 360". except for the really big games and some weird games of very small developers, xbox is missing a lot of japanese games in my opinion.



crissindahouse said:

 

€dit: some people here say microsoft still get all the japanese games but really? all the time a new game releases in japan for ps3 i think "ahh one more game not for 360". except for the really big games and some weird games of very small developers, xbox is missing a lot of japanese games in my opinion.


Isn't that the point?Sure, they miss several games, but if they got the big ones and those small gems what's the problem?

And be careful with your definition of "weird". Or is every game from a not-so-known developer weird? Cave do some great shumps and all of them are exclusive to the 360. They don't get money from Microsoft, but the sales of their games. You ignore the taste of western players for eastern games.



Somini said:
Salnax said:
This does little to appease Sony/PlayStation fans.


Off topic post and obvious flamebait. Do you need to be reported before you correct this?

Japan is NOT irrelevant whatsoever. Home consoles sell less than handhelds do, but that doesn't mean they're non existent all of a sudden! PS3 sales north of 9,2 million over there is 1/8 of the total sales, that's very relevant.


Sorry, I did not mean that in a derogatory sense. I just meant that a lot of criticism of Nintendo on this site comes from PlayStation fans, and thus a Microsoft comparison isn't very useful for making comparisons.

Now that I understand that the statement was derogatory, I'll remove it.



Love and tolerate.

Wright said:
crissindahouse said:

 

€dit: some people here say microsoft still get all the japanese games but really? all the time a new game releases in japan for ps3 i think "ahh one more game not for 360". except for the really big games and some weird games of very small developers, xbox is missing a lot of japanese games in my opinion.


Isn't that the point?Sure, they miss several games, but if they got the big ones and those small gems what's the problem?

And be careful with your definition of "weird". Or is every game from a not-so-known developer weird? Cave do some great shumps and all of them are exclusive to the 360. They don't get money from Microsoft, but the sales of their games. You ignore the taste of western players for eastern games.

but they only get some games which only sell few thousand units because it is so damn easy to develop for the 360. if it would be harder, xbox would probably not get these games anymore.

and weird for western standards. i don't think weird is a bad word to describe something which many people in westen find odd. and i don't ignore the taste of western players for eastern games but there are simply games in japan only very few people in western care about.

and if weird is really such a bad word sry for that, didn't know that (if you know my posts you will see that i use that word pretty often)