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mutantsushi on 23 April 2014
Shaunaka said:
mutantsushi said:

But no worries, you can enjoy needing to pay for a SECOND Kinect rather than hot swapping a single Kinect between your US and Japanese XBOX.
...Even if there is no Japanese only games that use Kinect!  MS just made sure you would have the pleasure of owning a "Japanese" Kinect.

Are you sure you'll need 2 kinects for this? Sounds counter-intuitive.

I'm saying you don't NEED 2 Kinects for that, but that is what you will get, because MS does not sell XBones without Kinect bundled.
If they ever stop force-bundling them, and start selling Kinect-less SKUs, I guess you could sell one to somebody for 1/2 price.



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jlmurph2 on 23 April 2014
mutantsushi said:
Shaunaka said:
mutantsushi said:

But no worries, you can enjoy needing to pay for a SECOND Kinect rather than hot swapping a single Kinect between your US and Japanese XBOX.
...Even if there is no Japanese only games that use Kinect!  MS just made sure you would have the pleasure of owning a "Japanese" Kinect.

Are you sure you'll need 2 kinects for this? Sounds counter-intuitive.

I'm saying you don't NEED 2 Kinects for that, but that is what you will get, because MS does not sell XBones without Kinect bundled...

Who would buy a japanese Xbox straight from Microsoft?



NNN2004 on 23 April 2014

What's the point.



vivster on 23 April 2014

I don't think any amount of Japanese games or even exclusives will make the X1 work in Japan. Maybe an exclusive FXV or Monster Hunter would help a bit but not even those would make it a success longterm.



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novasonic on 23 April 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
novasonic said:
There's some developers in that list that aren't Japanese.. And 'registered to develop for' and 'developing for' are two different things.


They'll be making Japanese loacalisations, also important to any potential success the Xbox One has in Japan.

That makes a lot of sense. Not what the OP says though. Weirds.




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WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
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celador on 23 April 2014

Can't see it being a success in Japan.

On the other hand, if MS give it a good go by developing some good Japanese games that also come over west that would definitely increase my interest in X1



HylianSwordsman on 23 April 2014

I'm still not counting it out completely, but the lack of compelling Japanese games there looks pretty bad. I suppose there's time for more to be announced.



GamechaserBE on 23 April 2014
HylianSwordsman said:
I'm still not counting it out completely, but the lack of compelling Japanese games there looks pretty bad. I suppose there's time for more to be announced.


If you compare it with PS4 that at this point only have ports from Japanese ps3 games in Japan I applaud MS for atleast having DR3 and Crimson Dragon (or is that one also X360?)..



cheshirescat on 23 April 2014

over/under xbone selling 4.5 figures its first week in Japan?



HylianSwordsman on 23 April 2014
GamechaserBE said:
HylianSwordsman said:
I'm still not counting it out completely, but the lack of compelling Japanese games there looks pretty bad. I suppose there's time for more to be announced.


If you compare it with PS4 that at this point only have ports from Japanese ps3 games in Japan I applaud MS for atleast having DR3 and Crimson Dragon (or is that one also X360?)..

And they still have time to come up with more. Hence why I'm not counting them out.