YukanaSenix said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Yes they will. Compared to the original Xbox the Xbox 360 did gangbusters in Japan. MS also knows that they need Japanese games on their system to compete in the rest of the world too. I expect MS to put as much or more effort into Japan as they did this gen and we will see the Xbox brand continue to grow there. The Japanese are slowly starting to adopt foreign tech so MS needs to keep pushing until the Japanese finally get what the rest of us already know. Halo kicks ass. |
Halo doesn't kick as...Its ass.
And Japanese don't play FPS that much - What they started to play a little bit is CoD and THAT ONLY ON PS3!
And what would they change for the NextBox compared to the start of the 360?
With the 360 they got nearly the best support they could have gotten - They had Tales of as an Exclusive.They had Mistwalker with Sakaguchi behind them and games like Eternal Sonata,Star Ocean,The Last Remnant(still in the most wanted list for the PS3 today) and everything else as an exclusive.
THEY ALL didn't sell - Japanese people even started to hate Microsoft even more cause they needed to either wait or buy a console they don't need and want.
This is why most Japanese Developers turned their back on the 360 and favored the PS3 again.Especially Tales of got an insane boost in Japan after they changed back.
SquareEnix became irrelevant in this Gen and their only Developer Team(Team Nomura) isn't allowed to work as he wants to(PS3 Exclusive).
They destroyed with FF13 and even favor the 360 more with 13-2(they lowered the amount of FMVs cause the 360 version of 13 was so inferior to the PS3 Version) a lot of their good reputation.
Oh and yes - Japanese don't hate foreign tech.They love apple and the Iphone and stuff.
They just don't like to buy devices they don't need cause the stuff usually is on the system they prefer with the highest quality possible.
Even Monster Hunter Frontier(i know a port from an old PC Game) didn't help - They were angry it didn't get released for the PS3.And this won't change Next Gen cause at the end Sony really got everything back.If Microsoft is FORCING them AGAIN to wait or buy a device no one needs there they will be even more angry.
They will launch the Nextbox(lol 720) in Japan for the Cavia(i think they make those sidescroll spaceship shooters) games and all that stuff.
They need a system they can develop easy and cheap for.But anything else won't be worth the effort.
Even more Kinect heavy?Didn't know the Japanese suddenly got a bigger living room.
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Starting out calling Halo ass pretty much makes anything else you say suspect.
Halo is the standard for which all console FPS are judged. Deal with it.
