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shikamaru317 on 05 February 2024
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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
shikamaru317 said:

Me stating that JP devs skip Xbox for ports more often than they skip PS5 and Switch does not mean I'm a JP developer myself, I'm just stating a simple fact. A list of just some of the JP games so far this generation that have yet to release on Xbox:

  • FF7 Remake Intergrade
  • Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection
  • SaGa: Emerald Beyond
  • Live A Live remake
  • Trials of Mana remake
  • Valkyrie Elysium
  • Star Ocean the Second Story R
  • All 4 Atelier games this gen (Ryza 2, Sophie 3, Ryza 3, Marie Remake)
  • Granblue Fantasy Relink
  • All 3 Legend of Heroes games in the new story arc (Trails Through Daybreak 1 and 2, and the upcoming Kai No Kiseki- Farewell O Zemuria)
  • Ys X- Nordics
  • Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection
  • Disgaea 7
  • Neo: The World Ends with You
  • Fate/Samurai Remnant

Has the premise of this discussion changed to that some of the Japanese games are not coming to Xbox and therefore the hatred for JRPGs is deserved?
Well, but most Xbox players certainly don't care about JP games like the ones you laid out.

FF and Grabble would be the exception.

Perhaps what is being overlooked is that such disdain is held by those who have no interest in JRPGs in the first place.

I have no disdain whatsoever for JP games, and I don't think many in this thread do either. Please don't mistake disdain for the business decisions of certain Japanese publishers, as disdain for the product of the creative teams, disdain for the games themselves. One can love Square Enix games, but also be annoyed at Square Enix leadership for frequently skipping Xbox. 

Also, I believe that Konnichiwa was posting that initial post about FF14 requiring Gamepass Core on Xbox Series not to attack Square, but to attack Xbox. Such a decision will have come from Xbox, not from Square. And it's deserved criticism of Xbox imo, they never seem to want to relax their archaic old-school multiplayer rules from early Xbox Live Gold. Gold/Gamepass Core shouldn't have been a requirement to play Xbox multiplayer games for about 6 years now, and yet it still is a requirement, thanks to some greedy bean counters who are afraid of losing a few Gamepass Core subs.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 05 February 2024