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shikamaru317 said:

smroadkill15 said:

The constant bitching about Japanese games skipping Xbox is getting old. I'm not sure what you guys expect. If anything, Xbox has surprisingly gotten better support from Japanese devs than they probably should. I mean, we are getting to the point we are complaining about Rise of Ronin, a game published by Sony, is skipping Xbox 🙄. We are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel on this one.

I mean, Team Ninja was once deep in Xbox's deck of cards, games like DoA 3 and 4, DoA Xtreme 1 and 2, Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 were all either full Xbox exclusives or timed Xbox exclusives. Between Mattrick and Spencer, Xbox has managed to not only lose Team Ninja as a maker of Xbox exclusives, but have now allowed 3 Team Ninja games to not release on Xbox at all, Nioh 1, Nioh 2, and Rise of the Ronin. Make of that what you will.

The fact is Xbox has managed to systematically lose almost all of the progress that they once made in Japan on OG Xbox and 360. We used to regularly see JP exclusives and timed exclusives on Xbox, we haven't had one in years, except for HiFi Rush which is now timed exclusive instead of full exclusive. Phil made a bit of headway in getting more JP multiplat releases for a few years, mostly after Gamepass released in 2017, but even that is now slipping, just yesterday we lost Bandai's Gundam series on Xbox which had previously released 2 games on Xbox, and it isn't the first JP series which had seen Xbox releases at some point between 2017-2022 that is now once again skipping Xbox.

While we have lost FF which is a massive blow. We have gained PS exclusives like Yakuza and Persona. As well as Neptunia and smaller games as well. And more recently have gotten SMT. Still feel like more positive than negative. Minus exclusives, Xbox probably in its best position with Japanese games, despite the big FF skips and misc ones. 

Tales of is back as well.