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richardhutnik on 19 August 2011
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Lostplanet22 said:
kowenicki said:
Lostplanet22 said:
kowenicki said:
Zlejedi said:
Lostplanet22 said:
kowenicki said:
Ditch em

You dont need to sell consoles in Japan to get Japanese developers to utilise your platform (not that Japanese developers have brought much to the HD table this gen anyway imo)

Japanese developers arent stupid are they? They arent going to ignore a console with tens of millions of consumers, be it this gen or the next.


Ofcourse that is why they wanted a lot of $$$$$$$$  =p!  Why else is tales of Xillia now an PS3 exclusive (so far)..

They are stupid ;) After all they took the bait of microsoft cash for timed exclusivity and ruined all chances they had for decent sales in west.

i think its more that the games are shit... thats why they have in the main failed in the west.

Kowenicki  'Lost Odyssey is one of the best or the best JRPG's this gen'..

Now it is shit?


it isnt... thats why I said "in the the main"

jesus.

and lost odyssey isnt one of the best... it is the best.  by a mile.

My bad, if you used the word 'General' then I would have understand it immediately.

Anyway the sales in Japan are thx to MS giving up.   They had plenty of weeks where they did outsell the PS3 and they had a small community of fans who showed love for the X360 remember the cat eating girl who was trying to convince people to get an X360 but MS let the community die....

What happened with Panzer dragoon btw? 



Microsoft knows jack about supporting game communities that have interest in specific products or smaller niches.  Unless it is a top selling exclusive they have, they don't do anything.  They roll out a product and hope individual consumers buy it, and then treat the entire XBox Live system as one giant community, with your own list of friends as another.  If you were into something like 1 vs 100, you are now out in the cold.  And for Game Room?  Well, that had a community, and still gets in top 10-20 every week in sales, eventhough the product was a botch job, and has no new content.  But, try to do anything with it, or any other product, and try to find ANYONE in Microsoft in community relations for a product trying to connect with a pocket of users.  Well... good luck.  NO ONE at Microsoft has a clue what a user community interested in an XBox product is.  NO ONE.  ZERO, ZIP, NATTA.  This comes from my end, when I had been trying to do stuff with Game Room, had a forum moderator tell me that Microsoft was watching what was being done by my CADERS group on event planning, and they did NOTHING, and when I called about issues with Game Room, and the community behind it, the concept went right over their heads.

Flat out, Microsoft doesn't get it.  I am not sure any of the three console makers get it either.  Sony seems to be trying harder, with the likes of Home, but they don't seem to do it much either.