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

[Zippy6]

chakkra said:

Zippy6 said:

Because Xbox did so well in Japan when they did have access to Final Fantasy last generation. Even if somehow banning Sony from third party exclusive deals was possible it will not change Xbox's fortunes in Japan. This is incredibly stupid and obviously motivated from a nationalistic desire to see an American based company gain dominance, or simply complete ignorance of the Japanese market.

Not one of these politicians knows the games market well. They got told something and now they will parrot it without understanding the reasons to further their agenda.

Have you ever stop to consider why does Sony even bother blocking FF and other japanese games from coming to Xbox? What exactly do they gain from it?

It almost feel like they are wasting money that they could have used into developing more 1st party games.

Most likely it's easier and cheaper to negotiate such a deal with a Japanese company as native sales for Xbox are almost non-existant and typically globally Japanese style games sell far more on PlayStation than Xbox even when simultaneously launched and even taking Xbox's lower installbase into account.

It's easy and cheap to persuade these companies to not release on Xbox and they do it with titles that are popular and will give them an advantage in the West.

They're not getting exclusive final fantasy to help them over Xbox in Japan, it's just not necessary. They're doing it for western markets and they'll get it cheaper than they would a third party western exclusive.