Kasz216 said:
The Anarchyz said:
Kasz216 said:
The Anarchyz said:
Japan doesn't accept the 360 because it's American, PS3 is not selling like it should because PS3 focused a lot on Western-oriented games and abandoned J-oriented games for too long (of course MS had something to do with it but it's Sony's fault too), and let's remember that the Japanese flagship Playstation titles are not out yet (Final Fantasy XIII and Gran Turismo 5), never in the history of Playstation those titles took so long in being released... And of course, the main element of all: THE PRICE...
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So it's your opinion that Japan is filled with Xenophobes?
They won't buy a system with what you presume they want simply because the manufactuerer isn't Japanese
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We already discussed the Xbox brand issue in Japan in a lot of topics, it's not that they're xenophobes, if they were the iPod touch, Nokia cellphones, Dell computers, Windows and another brands wouldn't survived there... The thing is, Microsoft is doing direct competition to Sony with the Xbox brand, i mean, the whole reason they entered in the console business is because they were afraid that the Playstation took the living room and became a threat to MS... So we have two brands, the Playstation brand and the Xbox brand, the American one is trying to take the Japanese one down, who do you think the Japanese will have more loyalty???...
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The one that gives them the product they want.
That's the main rule of the consumer.
All those things you mentioned do direct compete with japanese companies.
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Like i said, we discussed the Japan issue with consoles in a lot of threads, and we came to the same conclusion about the Xbox brand being American...
And about the other brands, i said "survived", not "beat down the competition" because i don't have the sales of them vs the competition (and i might add, Windows doesn't have J-competitors and the other brands are not having a war like the Xbox is having with the Playstation)...
But if you like to give a better explanation of why the Xbox brand is not that popular in Japan despite having a JRPG with part of the Chrono Trigger Dream Team, a JRPG with part of the Final Fantasy original team, a Tales JRPG and two Tri-Ace JRPGs (one of them a popular established franchise), be my guest...
