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burninmylight on 02 July 2013
sales2099 said:
burninmylight said:
Gosh, how stupid do you have to be to flat out call a country second tier? All you have to say is, "We want to ensure a successful launch with plenty of great games and a practically nonexistent console failure rate for our Japanese fans."

Hire me as a PR guy, I don't ask for much.

Second tier in terms of selling potential. Given Xbox sales in Japan, it is fitting.


Oh I know what it means, but you still don't say it out loud in a place without a reasonable expectation of privacy.



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Netyaroze on 02 July 2013

MS should take PR lessons you can say that just not with those words. Makes it sound like MS doesnt appreciate the Japanese market.



Goatseye on 02 July 2013

Japan is a tier 10. France probably buys more xbox's games and consoles.
They are disconnected from the west and they just buy handheld games. Not a single western owned and developed games cracks their chart( I haven't seen at least).
Give them X1 in 2015 when you launch a new model. Or put 360 in a small case with dual screens bundled with a groping game and it will blast off there.



Madword on 02 July 2013
Goatseye said:
Japan is a tier 10. France probably buys more xbox's games and consoles.
They are disconnected from the west and they just buy handheld games. Not a single western owned and developed games cracks their chart( I haven't seen at least).
Give them X1 in 2015 when you launch a new model. Or put 360 in a small case with dual screens bundled with a groping game and it will blast off there.

Didn't the Last of us just do 100k in sales over there? Thats pretty impressive no?



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the2real4mafol on 02 July 2013

Not like it matters. Many 10 people in Japan care



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happydolphin on 02 July 2013

bah Goatseye you're awesome. A groping game would totally work.

I agree that the wording is wayy off and is not appropriate, but as was said before it's not like it isn't true in terms of sales and Sony is definitely considering it as well just much smarter about it.



D-Joe on 03 July 2013
kitler53 said:
oh man, i hope that some liberties were taken in the translation to make the statement sound worse than it does. calling someone a teir 2 country is just bad manners.

There are thread about this news in 2ch

They do discuss this news

And non of them care the word "tier 2",they never think it's negative word



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kitler53 on 03 July 2013
D-Joe said:
kitler53 said:
oh man, i hope that some liberties were taken in the translation to make the statement sound worse than it does. calling someone a teir 2 country is just bad manners.

There are thread about this news in 2ch

They do discuss this news

And non of them care the word "tier 2",they never think it's negative word


okay, good.  then this really is a no news thread. 



outlawauron on 03 July 2013
Goatseye said:
Japan is a tier 10. France probably buys more xbox's games and consoles.
They are disconnected from the west and they just buy handheld games. Not a single western owned and developed games cracks their chart( I haven't seen at least).
Give them X1 in 2015 when you launch a new model. Or put 360 in a small case with dual screens bundled with a groping game and it will blast off there.

Ignore all of the Call of Duty titles or GTA or Battlefield 3. Oh, and Assassin's Creed 2 too. All of these titles sold 200k+. You should look and see that Western have had plenty of success in Japan (I'm ignoring all of Nintendo's Western developed games too), even on HD consoles. 



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Goatseye on 03 July 2013
outlawauron said:

Ignore all of the Call of Duty titles or GTA or Battlefield 3. Oh, and Assassin's Creed 2 too. All of these titles sold 200k+. You should look and see that Western have had plenty of success in Japan (I'm ignoring all of Nintendo's Western developed games too), even on HD consoles. 
Game
North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global

 

Battlefield13.55 8.82 0.61 3.63 26.62
COD 89.48 46.62 2.70 24.71 163.51
Assassin's C.
 23.91 16.35 0.98 10.72 51.96

Three of the Western games juggernauts  sold just 4.29 million in Japan in a total of 242.09 million world wide. I wouldn't worry too much about them as they are disconnected from the rest of the gaming world. I didn't even include Halo and GTA because the numbers would've been pornographic.

This little chart gives you the reason why MS and other major Western developers are not even worrying too much about Japan. They're not serious console gamers anymore like in NES and Snes era.

Nintendo's Western developed games are Nintendo's regardless. They are Japanese, it's like Sony's machines are made in China but they are considered Japanese hardware, right?

200k+ is not enough for an EA, Ubisoft and Activision do you know what I'm saying? Japanese gaming state is on an enclosure, feeding exclusively from internal developed games with occasional drops from the West.