Pre-launch Interest In Sony PS4 Is Twice Higher Than Xbox One

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Too_Talls said:

DerNebel said:

Please don't blame Japan for Microsofts inability to market their product over there.

What do we blame? Microsoft? the world for being in between the two places? languages? I assume you would know how to market to Japs. Japs are a weird bunch and sony and nintendo has a clear advantage being rooted in america and Japan. No matter what microsoft does Japs simply DO NOT WANT.

It's kind of a mystery why xbox can do well in othr places but not even be looked at as a legit system in Japan. Maybe they don't respect american tech. They are admittedly a brilliant bunch.

Easiest guess is to say they would rather stick to their own. It does help their economy, Why buy a foreign product that does the same things as one produced in your own land? If I lived there I probably wouldn't buy an xbox either.

Or it might be because Playstation has far more Japanese games than Xbox has.  If one console had most of the titles I was interested it while the other only had a few, I would go with the former.

I don't really understand this need to blame something so obvious on, "but the Japanese don't like American stuff!"  The same Japan that has like 1,000 KFC restaurants?

You've only to look at the fact that some of the more popular third-party games in Japan are only on Playstation to understand why this has happened.  Maybe you can blame third party publishers for not putting everything on the 360 but there probably isn't much gain in that, from their view.