Somini said:
Isn't that the same reason why the 360 is selling much better than the competition in the US? |
I don't think so. The PS2 destroyed the Xbox in American so I think the Xbox 360 did so much better in the USA because MS made sure it had the killer games that gamers couldn't go without. Halo had a lot to do with the rise of Xbox brand, for obvious reasons. But, American gamers grew up on Japanese games. We love Japanese games. We dont' descriminate. The Xbox 360 is not more popular in the US because MS is an American company. It's library of games is just what Americans are looking for. MS went out of their way to secure the games they knew Japanese gamers would want. But the Xbox 360 was ignored by the Japanese for being American, even though they probably all wanted to play Lost Odyssey and the others Japanese exclusives. But they turned their noses up at it for being western dog shit.
Japanese gamers perplexe me. They seem very narrow minded to me. Western gamers play Japanese games, but the Japanese don't play Western games. Why they refuse to try Halo I will never understand.
