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shikamaru317 said:
I think it can top OG Xbox lifetime possibly, though it definitely won't catch up to it this year, as OG Xbox was very front heavy, as you can see on the graph it sold 375k of it's 530k lifetime in just the first 61 weeks. But lifetime though, I think passing 530k is doable for Xbox Series, though MS is going to have to invest into Japan some to pull that off. OG Xbox had Japanese exclusives like Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, Phantom Dust, Panzer Dragoon Orta, and Otogi, so far Xbox Series has no Japanese exclusives (aside from some small indies), and Xbox's only Japanese 1st party studio is working on a game that will be timed exclusive to PS5, Ghostwire Tokyo (and even then Tango's games appeal more to the west than they do to Japan, Evil Within only sold like 300k in Japan, compared to more than 10x that many copies in the west). Microsoft is going to need to invest in games that appeal to a Japanese market, either acquiring some more Japanese studios, or making some strong JP 2nd party exclusive deals. |
Microsoft already owns a franchise, which is very appealing to the japanese market: Minecraft. Probably one of the strongest IPs in the market, period. I can't see though, how MS possibly utilizes that to boost Xbox Series sadly. But yeah, MS should invest more in japanese IPs like they did back with the X360.
