Should Microsoft give up in Japan?

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Michael-5 said:

Should have added a poll.

No.

The 360 sold 3x as good as the original X-Box in Japan, and while 1.5 million isn't much, PS3 only got 8 million. If MS grows, even just by 50% that's still 2.25 million units it wouldn't have sold otherwise.

Plus Microsoft has big pockets and will publish games Sony and Nintendo might not (or at least they won't pay as much). This is why we saw games like Lost Odyssey, Shenmue 2 (localized), and Panzer Dragoon Orta.

Plus competition from MS, however small it is, will encourage Sony to make better JRPG's.

So I see no reason why MS should leave. They might not be making much profit, but it does add a couple million sales in Japan, and maybe even a million extra sales outside of Japan from people who have to have all JRPG's.

9.2 million PS3s in Japan and counting and by mid 2014 will have eclipsed the Wii and be the most successful 7th gen console in that territory. Nothing to sneeze at. Yeah, the PS2 sold 2x that figure but hey, not all consoles can have the market for themselves like the PS2, PSone, NES and SNES pretty much did in Japan.