Microsoft: No Xbox One in Japan this Year: “Tier 2 Country”

[outlawauron]

Goatseye said:

outlawauron said:

Ignore all of the Call of Duty titles or GTA or Battlefield 3. Oh, and Assassin's Creed 2 too. All of these titles sold 200k+. You should look and see that Western have had plenty of success in Japan (I'm ignoring all of Nintendo's Western developed games too), even on HD consoles. 

200k+ is not enough for an EA, Ubisoft and Activision do you know what I'm saying? Japanese gaming state is on an enclosure, feeding exclusively from internal developed games with occasional drops from the West.

Wat. Not sure how you can get that from the numbers. Japan is still the 2nd largest country when it comes to video game sales. Japanese sales of Call of Duty are likely 5th or 6th in the world (behind US, UK, France, Germany, and Spain).

Rather than use all of Europe, you should take a look at what individual European countries do and then you'll double take Japan as a region.

@ Bolded: Yet the games continue to get localized. If you're this narrow minded (or just ignorant) or other markets, you'd realize that any region able to buy 6 figures of your game is worth investing in.