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outlawauron on 21 February 2014
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Goatseye said:
outlawauron said:
What's with this revisionist history that the 360 JRPGs didn't help or factor. 360 tripled the Xbox's sales in Japan and the 360 outsold PS3 for a few weeks. The problem was a case of not enough. There would be a big game every 6 months, but that's it.

Tripled what? 500 consoles a month to 1500?

360 investment was of hundreds of millions in Japan for a few millions in return. For 2 years MS churned out some great JRPGs produced by locals that went pratically unresponded by the market. What do you want them to do? Put more millions to loss? This ain't monopoly board game.

It went from 500k lifetime to 1.6 million lifetime. Went from a non-factor to something was relevant for about a 2 year period. Considering how backwards MS has treated the region, stumbling was expected. MS didn't churn out great JRPGs for 2 years. They produced two EVER and bought a few exclusives here and there. Amounts to 1 RPG every 6 months. 



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