Would it be in the 360's best interest for MS to pull it out of Japan?

[Onyxmeth]

Reasonable said:

Onyxmeth said:

Both consoles should pull out of Japan. Their combined sales do not even match up to the Wii's. All console Japanese support should just go to the Wii and both Sony and Microsoft should pull out. Look at their software sales. Neither console has managed to produce a million selling game over there, or even gotten close, while the Wii has produced 8 already. Has any game on either HD console become profitable based on Japanese sales alone? Most likely not. Both HD consoles should just cut their obvious losses, based on all the factual evidence that is available out there, and just concentrate on the two other regions they are getting their asses handed to them in.

 

 

While the Wii is clearly ahead in Japan, why would Sony pull the PS3 when they still have FF and GT to come and are starting to see much better sales now?

360 has done much better than Xbox, and it's amazing it has reached 1M - but in the end MS has only really gone from nowhere in Japan to fairly poor.  Of course Sony has gone backwards from PS2, but nonetheless PS3 is clearly the dominant HD console in the region and is gaining steam while 360 only has momentum when MS purchase titles that otherwise wouldn't be exclusive to the console - even then if I was MS I wouldn't pull out now, as a tiny improvement is better than none, and they have won some decent attention from local devs.

What mystifyes me in the region isn't the consoles, but the local game platform choices and the seemingly hit and miss nature of whether they are released outside Japan or not.

 

My post wasn't meant to be taken seriously. It was meant to paint the picture that I too could come up with something as poorly thought out as the OP did. If the 360 should pull out because of it's general failure in Japan, then so should the PS3. Both are getting their clocks cleaned by the Wii, and no amount of spin like "dominant HD console" changes that. That is merely a statement used to ignore the Wii's success and paint either the PS3 or 360 as the winner of something, when they are anything but that.

No platform should be pulling out of Japan. That much should be obvious. It depresses me that there are people in this topic that don't know that.