MS abandoning Japan (and others)

[slowmo]

KHlover said:

slowmo said:
You could argue Japan abandoned Microsoft first to be fair. Pretty sure this is the launch countries listed.

You cannot abandon what you never embraced in the first place.

They wasted a lot of money trying to please the Japanese market last gen and it got them bugger all sales still.  No point releasing there early and having consoles on shelves that could be being sold to consumers who do want the device.  I'm sure they stilll want a portion of the market but catching it will have slipped a long way down Microsoft's priority list after the lessons learned last gen.