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shikamaru317 on 28 March 2023
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Machiavellian said:
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

The Americans must have misunderstood Japan as they misunderstood Iran and Vietnam.

They want to believe that there is some political coercion or cultural bias that keeps us from buying an Xbox.

Before the U.S. starts a stupid war

I suggest you visit the Japanese gaming media and internet gaming community.

Above all, the Japanese gaming media is far more impartial than the West.

The case isn't being made about Japanese people choosing which system to buy, its about developers option to choose MS or include MS and if their are some coercion done on Sony part to limit that.  Who knows if its true but it would be interesting to see if there is.  Not sure how evidence would be found unless a few studios throw out some anon.  Anyway, at the end of the day, it could be MS looking at a longer game who knows.

Microsoft already claimed at one point to regulators during the ABK battle that they have evidence that Sony paid to keep FF7 Remake off of Xbox. The game was originally supposed to be a 1 year timed exclusive according to advertising for the game, but 1 year came and went and still no Xbox port, and now it has almost been 2 years since the original timed exclusive period would have expired and still no Xbox port.