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MoHasanie on 09 September 2014

Yikes. X1 is gonna sell horribly if this will be the case with all the big games.



    

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Aerys on 09 September 2014
MoHasanie said:
Yikes. X1 is gonna sell horribly if this will be the case with all the big games.


Well, with or without all the big games, it's gonna sell horribly.



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AZWification on 09 September 2014



                
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MS really shouldn't even bother in Japan. If the 360 couldn't make any sort of stamp over there when it was looking better than the ps3, what chance does the One have? Call it a day in Japan and push harder for China I'd say.



Nadwki on 09 September 2014

Over before it even began!



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Burek on 09 September 2014
teigaga said:
There must be X1 markets as small or even smaller then Japan. Will they also see Destiny and Batman as PS4 exclusives? Probably not.


Of course there are, probably a few European countries like Slovakia, Lithuania and such.

However, in all other countries they can just release an English version of the game without any need to localize it, and the distribution is handled across many countries at once.

Japan requires translation, dubbing, reprinting all materials etc. all of which costs money to get done at an AAA level. Thus it's much more expensive than shipping 500 discs from the UK to Estonia.



Teeqoz on 09 September 2014
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.


I think it's just that publishers don't bother to localize it for the XBO because the installbase will be so low.



Dark_Feanor on 09 September 2014
Troll_Whisperer said:
Dark_Feanor said:


So, the costs to change the button prompts from X to A are overwelming, or they have to translante again and re-dub the XOne version ???... because you can´t do more than that with localization.

What button prompts? Those are already there in the other Xbox One versions of the game. I never mentioned that.

Distribution is costly if the product doesn't sell enough.

The publisher is in charge of localization, so Sony probably took care of Japanese dubbing and subtitling too. Localizing costs money.

Well, if Sony is realy bering all the localization cost it´s fair they get that exclusive... but preventing the "international" release in other languages is a little dick move.

PS: And I can assume it´s Ok to Microsoft secure Tomb Raider exclusivity if they are paying for developement and market?



Troll_Whisperer on 09 September 2014
Dark_Feanor said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Dark_Feanor said:


So, the costs to change the button prompts from X to A are overwelming, or they have to translante again and re-dub the XOne version ???... because you can´t do more than that with localization.

What button prompts? Those are already there in the other Xbox One versions of the game. I never mentioned that.

Distribution is costly if the product doesn't sell enough.

The publisher is in charge of localization, so Sony probably took care of Japanese dubbing and subtitling too. Localizing costs money.

Well, if Sony is realy bering all the localization cost it´s fair they get that exclusive... but preventing the "international" release in other languages is a little dick move.

PS: And I can assume it´s Ok to Microsoft secure Tomb Raider exclusivity if they are paying for developement and market?

The "international" release hasn't been prevented. You can import the English-only version from other countries, same as with PS4 Destiny.

I didn't say anything about the deal being OK or not, never presented it as a PS4 vs. Xbox One issue.



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Mr Puggsly on 09 September 2014
BraLoD said:


Why would Sony pay for exclusivity for western games in Japan? Even in Sony consoles they don't sell that well.

They sell better than you think in Japan.

Also, they're cheap exclusive to acquire and something to boast about in Japan.



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