11 US Congressmen ask Biden Admin to pressure Japan over allowing Sony to buy console exclusivity deals

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chakkra said:

Bandorr said:

So few words,  Yet so very wrong.

Well step one would be.. making one. Or partnering with one. Or not turning them down.  There are reports saying MS turned down Genshin impact while it was in development. Oh and I'm simply going to laugh at FF14 some more.

If all of Japan refuses to partner with you - aren't you the bigger problem? You have billions on billions but every Japanese company doesn't want to work with you?

And that of course ignores that Xbox DOES get games.  They got the latest released FF game. They got star ocean.  They some how got Octopath.

They haven't cared for 20+ years.  They still don't care.  They are just afraid of what Sony will do with Japan next.

I think you guys are reading this the wrong way. I don't think Microsoft is actually interested in the Japanese market per se. I think it is quite obvious for everybody (including Microsoft) that they don't have a chance over there, BUT they do need japanese games for the western audience who likes those games.

Now, it should also be obvious that japanese developers don't have much incentive to put their games on Xbox, so Microsoft is left with only three choices:

1) Pay japanese developers to put their games on Gamepass (which they have been doing).
2) Buy some japanese studios and/or one publisher (which I think they're planning to do).
3) Built some studios from the ground up (I know this is Sony's fans favorite, but please, let's be real, even Sony haven't don't that in ages, I mean they even shut down one studio they had over there).

Right. I just wanted to make the first point to make the claim that they are being desperately disingenuous.

They don't care about Japan. They care about competing with Sony. They care about getting Japanese games so they can compete with Sony, and so they can limit what Sony can buy.

They basically want the days of Xbox 360 back. Where Tales of Vesperia comes to the US as Xbox only even though it released in PS in Japan.