Zekkyou said:
Because these days most racing games sell like crap in Japan. The genre has become pretty niche for the most part. The highest selling Forza was 3 at 0.1m (FM4 dropped to 0.06m). Need for Speed, Burnout, F1 etc have similarly bad sales. Even Gran Turismo has seen a big drop off (from 1 to 5: 2.54m -> 1.69m -> 1.87m -> 1.1m -> 0.81m). Mario Kart is probably the biggest racing series left in Japan, but MK8 will likley still rank pretty low compared to many of its predecessors (in part due to the WiiU's sales of course). |
thats probably due more to a decline of home consoles than a decline in the genre though, wouldn't you think? I guess the two kind of go hand in hand though... Either way, of all of microsofts big properties, I would imagine Forza would probably have the most appeal in the japanese region, sad as it is...
