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Dark_Feanor on 09 September 2014
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BraLoD said:
Mr Puggsly said:
BraLoD said:
Maybe the poor launch showed them really low or no chance to sell the game in a decent quantity there and they just gave up with it?


Maybe.

But the games X1 is losing in Japan happens to be games Sony is buying exclusive advertising for. That doesn't seem fishy?


Just between you and me: Sony don't need to pay to get exclusivity in Japan against Microsoft.

To me it really sounds more that is not worth to publish the game in XBO there, I mean, the console and brand (XB) are almost irrelevant there.
360 had a decent market there and got some stuff, but ONE is proving to be really, really irrelevant as not even at the week of launch any game could reach a TOP 20 position in Tsutaya to give as a example. It would be ilogic to release games there to don't achieve profit.

Why would Sony pay for exclusivity for western games in Japan? Even in Sony consoles they don't sell that well.

It´s not like they have to developer to a new platform from the ground up.

I can understand that happening with most of wierd japanease games. Batman, Destiny and any other wester game are purely bussiness deals.

They could even bother to release digital downloads if they think shipping to Japan wasn´t worth.