ice said:
Raising the price in a region you already struggle in, not good. Miss that momentum it had mid 2022 |
Yeah, this is a really shit move by Xbox. They've already greatly backed off on Japan shipments the last 2 months or so, we were once seeing like 6 and 7k shipments, but they have fallen to like 1k a week or less recently even though the larger shipments were still selling out when they were sending them. Now they are raising the price by roughly the equivalent of $50, claiming it is due to currency exchange fluctuations, but that can't be true because while the value of the yen started falling last March, it hit the bottom of that fall in October and has since recovered from .007 to .008 from a high of .009, so roughly half of it's value is almost back already just since October.
Shit moves like this are going to kill Japanese game support on Xbox further, when more than half of the 2023 Japanese games are already skipping Xbox. Sigh.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 31 January 2023
