You see I really don't know what MS can do to make the Xbox popular in Japan.
A New Xbox 360 Model Launch with a Monster Hunter online game that came with 12 Month Gold Live Member failed to outsell the PS3 and Wii on the same week. And look at bad the X360 is doing right now in Japan even with a remodeled X360. It's in the 2000's.
X360 has been the console for WRPG's this Gen. The X360 might have a few JRPG's but none of them had any impact at all. See at first MS invested in these JRPGs but they didn't break through for the Japanese. That's why Tales of Vesperia got a PS3 port and the PS3 version outsold the X360 versions lifetime sales in it's first week of release in Japan. And even now that's why the PS3 is getting an Exclusive Tales of game. It's not just with RPGs either. Bayonetta was know for a crappy PS3 port and yet on the PS3 version outsold the X360 completely in Japan.
One reason why the X360 hasn't been popular is because the Japanese are not big on Social Gaming on Consoles. So there's no reason for them to pay for Xbox Live to go online when they can easily go Online with the PS3 for free if they want to and I bet there are many Japanese Gamer who own a PS3 but don't have a PSN account because they really don't need it for Online Gaming, etc.
Who really knows what will happen with the next gen Xbox. But going by this gen, it looks like it won't be big in Japan once again. I mean earlier on this gen the PS3 was more expensive in Japan and yet it still outsold the X360 so if a console that is more expensive and 'had no games' beats a console that's cheaper and has JRPGs early in the Gen, then that's a pretty good indication that the PS4 will be dominant over the next Xbox in Japan.
