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konnichiwa on 22 February 2024
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Machiavellian said:
shikamaru317 said:

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 2017-2023 that is now once again skipping Xbox.

The past is the past but even still, Team Ninja today is not Team Ninja from the past.  Sony have worked hard to secure their homeland and squeeze MS out and as you even Stated, Phil is just tired of spending a huge sum of money trying to get support for little gain.  Every time you spend they want you to spend even more to the point where all you are doing is spending just to get junk on your system.  So I am sure Phil figured out that investing in Japan that way is a no win situation.  I rather MS go to new markets and build relationships and tell every Japanese developer who do not want to publish on Xbox to F themselves.  Personally, I really feel that games coming from Japan is getting stagnate.  They all feel and play the same.

I would say 'not investing in it is a certainly lost situation' because who wins if you don't invest? They also not invest in other asian markets so you don't get games like Stellar blade/Genshin Impact etc on xbox.

You may feel that ways about games from Japan but when so many games are game of the year contenders or winners from Japan and Hi Fi Rush being one of the most well received xbox games I don't get that view...

Especially when the biggest Xbox game pass launch is Palworld with more than 10 million players on xbox alone...It is up their with games like Starfield/Halo Infinite/Forza Horizon... and possible beating atleast one of them.