Resident Evil, GTA V, Gran Turismo, Hot shots golf, Yakuza, Street Fighter, Metal Gear Solid, CoD, PES. All with an attach rate on PS3 of over 5%. Globally, in the globe a 5% PS3 attach rate is a game that sells over 4 million. So proportionally all those games have done well in Japan, and none of them fit in your condescending list.

I guess focussing on a market for which they have permission, but no guarantee, to sell 5 million consoles is better than focussing on a completely open market that may not even sell 500K units. But I wonder if the return on effort for 5 million consoles is going to be worth it. Unless there is some assurance that they will get permission for another 5 million, or more.

China seems to be a focus for the hopes and dreams of a lot of Xbox fans here. But PS4 is coming to China, officially, and while Xb one might sell better than PS4, it's not going to be a Japan situation in reverse. For itself China might help Xb one to sell better over its lifetime than what it's looking like now, but to do that in any substantial way they realistically need permission to sell at least 10 million units during the course of the generation. Sony, on the other hand could completely ignore China and still look to cruise in to 100 million for the generation, wither Wii U and Xb one both eating dust.

That is the whole sad thing, i;ve seen 3 xbox fans today basically turning to china now as ther enext battleground as ps4 is killing x1 everywhere else....When ps4 launches in china it will outsell x1 there as well.

It's a growing market and that could benefit the Xbox One. I'm not saying it's going to sell gangbusters in China but it'll sell pretty solidly 

they should have launched a lot earlier, they where not ready.

Sure my condescending list. Congratulations on finding 2 Western games (GTA and COD) that are kind of exception to the rule.

Max COD has reached salewise in Japan is 0.55 mil, if that is successful to you, ok then.

They will.  It just won't be released on the One. 

PG has a different mindset and they don't mind making money.

As for Seg, Virtua Fighter is the only console title I want from them at this moment.

Namco I damn know that if they publish a proper AC it will be on Xbox like Ace Combat 6. The last good one.

All eyes are now in China. Nintendo and Sony are probably perplexed with the Xbox One sales there, more than 100k pre-orders.
These companies are probably rethinking their whole strategy on China, what a game changer that market will be for all three consoles, it can probably be the 4th or 5th biggest gaming market till the end of 2015.

Nice shift of the goalposts there.

That's 9 games which do not fit in your " Nintendo platformers, JRPGs and dating sims" list. And isn't a >5% attach rate, for a genre that is not particularly popular in Japan, successful? Tell me why selling the equivalent of 4.5 million globally isn't successful? Based on attach rate, CoD's 0.55 million is more succesful on PS3 in Japan than these games on PS3 globally: AC: revelations, Batman AA, GT5P, GT6, Every Madden game, Fifa 9 and 10, Street Fighter 4, Tekken 6, Every Battlefield except BF3 and several hundred other games. So yes, 0.55 million in Japan is successful by any reasonable measure.