it sold that well because of japan and the general ps4 audience having wider tastes

but i hope it happens for you. it's a better game than anything ms has produced for ten years, more people deserve to experience it

Yep I'm not expecting big numbers. Even TR which is quite big on Playstation suffered big loses on sales due to the time exclusiviness.

Just expect they don't see this as Xbox uncapable of selling JRPG.

The events leading up to the fruition of the Yakuza series is very interesting. Sony was the only one that bought into the series' potential.

"At the beginning of the project we spoke to all the platform holders including Sony and Microsoft," he said, "Every platform holder was negative about this prospect, but we kept on pushing because we believed in the potential, and as we kept going one platform holder that showed interest and saw the prospects of this title was Sony.

That's how we started working with them, and that's probably not going to change."

From Eurogamer. The article is old, but I would say it's still relevant to today.

It just goes to show that leaving one of the markets to a later date, isn't always going to net you a big return.

As they say "time is money".

I don't think ever helps improve sales to hold one version 18 months... some japanese titles X360 had as time exclusives and TR on X1 got outsold by the PS port but mainly because of the userbase being much bigger for those titles, but certainly costed a lot of sales... now when the opposite happens I can see very few sales at best.

That is why me and a lot of others on the TR exclusivity were talking about how mcuh did MS paid for the timed exclusive because we knew a lot of sales would be lost. And considering their complains on 5M not breaking even and that X1 would be much lower than PS4, it must have been quite the payment.

Holding it doesn't really benefit anyone, not even the company that made the game. Sure with temp exclusivity contracts, the game producer gets a limited sack of cash, but that is always going to be a defined supply, which will likely be outdone by the sales of other platforms combined at the end of the day. 

The thing is, those companies really shouldn't be pulling temp exclusivity deals at all these days. It's just not healthy and it creates discordance between user bases and their desire to support those games.

Whenever I see a timed exclusive deal, I feel like I want to support that company in the least way possible (like a deep discount sale for example). That's one effect that deal can have on some folk out there.

I don't think any side should ever be allowed to pull and get away with timed deals. Not for the winner of the gen, not for the loser or middle man either. 

The only one that could possibly win from the timed exclusivity is the platform holder... and if a new IP or one that needed help to fund... all else is basically a loss.

By platform holder you mean the one who owns the game?.

I don't really buy into the funding card. Otherwise we're just getting knee deep in "it's okay when Sony money hats/funds something, but when others do it it's wrong".

Nope, I mean the one who buy the exclusivity. If it didn't benefit them they wouldn't do it.

Very nice stealth attempt of accusing Sony fans of hypocrisy.

Nah, not a stealth attempt, it's basically going to temp benefit the one who owns the game and slightly benefit the one making the deal.

It's bad either way, let's not even begin to try making it excusable for one side, but worse when all the others do it.