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Machiavellian on 22 February 2024
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konnichiwa said:
Machiavellian said:

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.

You just mentioned 2 games that really does not make up the complete market.  You totally forget all the other efforts as if they do not exist and then you make assumptions on what they are not doing even though we have information that Sony has locked out MS with other devs and publishers in Japan.  You act as if this stuff is easy.  Just throw a hell of a lot of money at the problem and it fixes itself, but MS went down that route already and it netted them really nothing.

So no, spending huge sums of money trying to get square sloppy seconds is a waste of money when you can spend that money elsewhere.

It's not that I feel that way about Japan games, you only have to look at the sales to see that they are not hitting like they use to.  Even Square recognize this and the reason you are starting to see more support is because that strategy isn't working. The market will change because putting all your huge and expensive games on just one platform is not brining in the profits.  MS realize this a long time ago and now Sony and the rest of the Japan devs and publishers are figuring it out as well.  

So no, MS does not have to keep throwing money at the problem what have to do is make sure their AAA games hit hard within the market and the consumers will come.