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Devil_Survivor on 05 February 2014
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pokoko said:
UltimateUnknown said:
pokoko said:
UltimateUnknown said:
pokoko said:
The Vita doesn't have as many games that appeal to North American gamers and the Xbox doesn't have as many games that appeal to Japanese gamers. That's really the crux of the matter.


At the time when the 360 came out, it had a slew of JRPGs Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean, Magna Carta 2, Infinite Undiscovery and more that the PS3 did not have. But still the Japanese audience did not buy into the 360. MS did try at first, but then gave up after seeing their efforts fail.

The PS3 didn't have any games that the 360 didn't have?

At the time many of those games came out in Japan, they were only available on 360 and not on PS3. So MS did give incentive for the Japanese gamers to pick up the 360.

No, that's not what I'm saying.  Microsoft, for various reasons, had a lot of trouble in Japan, including missing out on some games that Playstation got.  They also flubbed with that controller, which the Japanese hated.  They had PR and image problems.  They pissed off Japanese publishers by trying to do business with western methods.  Lots of factors added up to the Xbox brand being scorned.  Microsoft bought a few exclusives and missed out on dozens more.

The 'racism' thing always cracks me up, though, when there are hundreds of western brands doing very well in Japan.  There are like a thousand KFC restaurants there, yet they won't have anything to do with non-Japanese brands?  Hah.

Yeah your right about those brands doing well but, just cannot dismiss that notion altogether. It depends on if a Japanese company makes something simliar, like for instance I never heard of a Japanese chicken resturant so that's maybe why KFC does well there. Also look at Apple, most Japanese made phones are not that great and Apple has the biggest market share there.