Japan Developers Don't Get US Gamers

[Mr Puggsly]

Devil_Survivor said:

Didn't MS try to get Japanese exclusives at least early on? So either Japanese gamers weren't interested or MS gave up too easy, its probably the latter.  Sony the advangate of being a Japanese company , and as you said they are really the only game in town for 3rd party games, however a lot of those games are Japanese which what we are talking here; what appeals to a certain audience, and Sony turns their internal development towards Western games.    

I never said MS should "deprive" anyone of the Xbox One, even Japan. I only said they might not release it in Japan because of the past histoy of Xbox and the general preception that Japanese people don't like to buy foriegn products. 

360 did get some good Japanese exclusives early on and surely that's the reason 360 sold significantly better than the original Xbox in Japan.

Sony dominated Japan, but that country accounts for a relatively small percentage of console sales. That's not a market really worth going after. If the X1 can sell a million units in Japan, great. MS's focus should be in the west and that's where Sony's interest is as well.

 

I misread what you said. My mistake.