Will the XBOX One outsell the SNES?

[Bofferbrauer2]

SanAndreasX said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I see your point, but I actually meant games they develop themselves for the Japanese market, new IPs, not games where they just bought the exclusivity for from another publisher.

And I agree that it will be very hard for Xbox, but it could at least reach 360 levels again next gen that way. Not great or even good, but at least not as abysmal as the XBO is doing.

They've tried that too. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey didn't help much, and Blue Dragon had Sakaguchi, Uematsu, and Akira Toriyama. I don't think either Microsoft or Mistwalker liked how that partnership went. Those were original IPs for the 360. There was supposed to be a third game, Cry On, that ended up never going anywhere. A generation earlier, they tried to make a MMO for the original Xbox with Level-5, and that relationship ended with Akihiro Hino vowing that he would never work with Microsoft again.  They simply don't have a clue when it comes to Japan, and there's more to MS's failures there than can be dismissed by writing it off as Japanese nationalism.

Those are just 2 IP, and just one game for each IP. I would consider that a start, but certainly not nearly enough for an entire console generation. For an entire console generation, I would consider at least half a dozen IPs and about a dozen games for each and any of the 3 main markets (North America, Europe and Japan) the bare minimum a console should push to have success in all regions.

But without a serious improvement of their image in Japan, even that won't be able to do much. Which brings us back to their brand issue...