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Burek on 09 September 2014
kinisking said:
Aerys said:
kinisking said:
Xbox already has like no games in Japan. Don't see how he Sony even bother trying to take multiplat games away from it.


It's not Sony, it's the publishers, they dont want to waste money publishing the game on X1 for 12 people in Japan

It's definitely Sony. It's not a coincidence th at destiny and Arkham Knight are exclusive when Sony is backing them both. Plus with x86 architecture porting would cost them almost nothing 

Come on, for the number of people who would buy the game on XOne, it's not worth printing box inserts. Sony really has no need to pay anything, publishers see where the paying customers are, why waste effort and money.

I guess EA will be the only one supporting MS in Japan, at least with FIFA. 

And if XOne sales don't pick up, we might soon be seeing this scenario in the west as well.



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kinisking on 09 September 2014
Aerys said:
kinisking said:
Aerys said:
kinisking said:
Xbox already has like no games in Japan. Don't see how he Sony even bother trying to take multiplat games away from it.


It's not Sony, it's the publishers, they dont want to waste money publishing the game on X1 for 12 people in Japan

It's definitely Sony. It's not a coincidence th at destiny and Arkham Knight are exclusive when Sony is backing them both. Plus with x86 architecture porting would cost them almost nothing 

Wrong.

 

It's not about port, it's about publishing costs, that doesnt cost nothing to publish a game, it seems you werent there last gen, a lot of games were exclusive to PS3 in Japan, it's crazy to think Sony is behind this each time since they dont need to do that.


I'm talking about the western games. These are both games Sony advertise pretty heavily. It's more than a coincidence. Someone before me put it into better words



Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65) 

Wii u: 20 milliion

Mr Puggsly on 09 September 2014
BraLoD said:
Maybe the poor launch showed them really low or no chance to sell the game in a decent quantity there and they just gave up with it?


Maybe.

But the games X1 is losing in Japan happens to be games Sony is buying exclusive advertising for. That doesn't seem fishy?



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rioskenny1 on 09 September 2014

Xbox fanboys dont want ton see the truth. Why  port it to a console that doesnt sell on japan just so it can sell 10 more copies of the game?



Aerys on 09 September 2014
kinisking said:
Aerys said:
kinisking said:
Aerys said:
kinisking said:
Xbox already has like no games in Japan. Don't see how he Sony even bother trying to take multiplat games away from it.


It's not Sony, it's the publishers, they dont want to waste money publishing the game on X1 for 12 people in Japan

It's definitely Sony. It's not a coincidence th at destiny and Arkham Knight are exclusive when Sony is backing them both. Plus with x86 architecture porting would cost them almost nothing 

Wrong.

 

It's not about port, it's about publishing costs, that doesnt cost nothing to publish a game, it seems you werent there last gen, a lot of games were exclusive to PS3 in Japan, it's crazy to think Sony is behind this each time since they dont need to do that.


I'm talking about the western games. These are both games Sony advertise pretty heavily. It's more than a coincidence. Someone before me put it into better words

Im talking about western games too, it's not a coincidence, it's logical, they dont want to lose money and they wont be the only one. A lot of western games were exclusives on PS3 in Japan for the same reason, so you think sony paid every publisher for that ? Come on, it's totally crazy.



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kinisking on 09 September 2014
Burek said:
kinisking said:
Aerys said:
kinisking said:
Xbox already has like no games in Japan. Don't see how he Sony even bother trying to take multiplat games away from it.


It's not Sony, it's the publishers, they dont want to waste money publishing the game on X1 for 12 people in Japan

It's definitely Sony. It's not a coincidence th at destiny and Arkham Knight are exclusive when Sony is backing them both. Plus with x86 architecture porting would cost them almost nothing 

Come on, for the number of people who would buy the game on XOne, it's not worth printing box inserts. Sony really has no need to pay anything, publishers see where the paying customers are, why waste effort and money.

I guess EA will be the only one supporting MS in Japan, at least with FIFA. 

And if XOne sales don't pick up, we might soon be seeing this scenario in the west as well.

This wouldn't happen in the West. Did it happen with the original Xbox? That's was only 20mil. As long as they make a profit they won't not make it. Xbox one sales are very close to the ps4 in the US rn. 



Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65) 

Wii u: 20 milliion

Mr Puggsly on 09 September 2014
rioskenny1 said:

Xbox fanboys dont want ton see the truth. Why  port it to a console that doesnt sell on japan just so it can sell 10 more copies of the game?

These games Sony is getting exclusively in Japan happen to be games they are buying advertising for.

The truth is pretty obvious.



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vivster on 09 September 2014

Not that it really matters. The sales of those games in Japan will be as low as the X1 baseline.



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Troll_Whisperer on 09 September 2014

Sony publishes Destiny in Japan and will probably do the same with Arkham Knight.

It seems pretty clear to me that part of the agreement Sony has with Activision and WB include publishing the game in Japan themselves, maybe because Sony wants it that way but most probably because the publishers don't deem it worth it doing it themselves for such a small market and are comfortable with Sony handling things.

Since Sony publishes, it follows that the games stay exclusive to PS platforms.



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Normchacho on 09 September 2014

That poor, poor Japanese Xbox One owner...he'll be so upset.



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