Capcom x Microsoft secret game is Monster Hunter Frontier.

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jarrod said:

justinian said:

epicberserk said:
Well this microsoft and capcom collaboration I bet u when it released in the summer in japan microsoft prolly coin advertise the he'll out of this and prolly be a special bundle with a xbox360 just like every big title they release I wonder tho what the other two games r hmm kingdom hearts and final fantasy ???

I think I got the most of what you are trying to say - I am guessing english isn't your first language.

All the trillions spent by MS so far in Japan has achieved what exactly? 1m sales after 4yrs.

What about where the real money is made, software? How many x360 games have sold over 200K in Japan? One...just.

Seriously, lets speculate for a bit. How many copies do you think this game will sell?

Have a look at Star OCean:TLH in Japan and tell me if all that money spent on ads and promoting that game made any significant gains in Japan.

What about ToV?

What makes you think after all that a two year old PC port will move enough copies to recuperate all the billions you pressume MS will spend advertising and promoting this game?

Bearing all that in mind there has to be more to this project beneath the surface.

 

 

Look at it this way, the inroads made in Japan this gen for Microsoft have basically tripled their userbase and multiplied software sales.  Plus, progress in Japan really helps them worldwide by getting JP developers on full force.  Investment in Japan has worldwide effects.

Also, according to Famitsu, four 360 games have passed 200k ltd (Blue Dragon, Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean 4 & Ace Combat 6).

Yes, but 3 times 1 is still just 3, which doesn't mean much when everyone else has 20. Everything looks better when you talk about it in percent increases, and if you want to use such increases, I'm sure there is a much larger number for Microsoft's costs in Japan this generation than last generation than there is an increase in sales.

As for it having any effect on development at all, other than Final Fantasy XIII, Japan has yet to make a Japanese-oriented game for 360 that Microsoft has not bought timed or total exclusivity for, and even FFXIII isn't getting a Japanese release at all on 360. Any other game that's been developed in Japan and has gone multiplat or on 360 is in a genre/franchise that sells signifficantly better in the west (Resident Evil, Lost Planet, Dead Rising, etc.).

So I would say no, there has been absolutely no benefit to what MS has spent in Japan, aside from giving me some decent JRPGs to play. <3 Lost Odyssey