Microsoft to deliver TGS Keynote

[heruamon]

Ping_ii said:

heruamon said:

leo-j said:

heruamon said:

I wonder why...xbox is never going to take off in Japan.

the point is not letting the ps3 take off in japan

But the PS3 normally outsells the 360 by a ratio of 10 times as much...not sure there's to that.  Apple is really the only western company to have made a dent in the Japanese marketplace, and I understand that M$ needs to try to get out and build some grassroot support in Japan, but not at the expense of it's larger customer base.  M$ has a TON of first party IPs that are collecting dust, but look at all the JRPGs they tried, not to mention that horrible Ninja Blade, which I couldn't play for more than a few minutes.

They can't really do anything about it, they tried their best and thats it you can't force ppl you know........

I'm not saying they haven't tried really hard to get a breakthru, and I DO think they will be well positioned in the next console iteration, but for this generation...there is much diminishing returns.  Maybe Kinect will connect with the Japanese marketplace, but we will see.  I just think that all that development money for those titles to cater to the Japanese market should have seen an equally robust effort with M$'s IP library...Brute Force, Freelancer, Mechwarrior...etc etc etc...all of those would have been major triple A titles, yet 5 years into the 360...we've seen zippo!