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will MS withdraw the console before 2017?

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loy310 on 06 January 2015

Nah, they don't need to. I don't know what their internal expectations were but based off history I would be surprised is MS anticipated a run away success for the XB1 in Japan.
It's a great system also.
In Japan Live should be free, I think if that was the case it would help the brand in Japan.



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Kerotan on 06 January 2015
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Loll man, its amazing how low it really is! But they probably won't cause it is still selling even if its selling piss poor


What if the 800 units it sells becomes 200 units a week in say 2 months from now. That's about 30 units a day. How can they afford to pay all their staff for numbers that bad. 



MoHasanie on 06 January 2015

Of course not. There's no reason for them to try making Japanese games though.



    

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Kerotan on 06 January 2015
spemanig said:
If Sony still hasn't pulled the Vita everywhere, Microsoft definitely won't be pulling the XBO in Japan.


Sony will probably pull the vita out of most places before 2017.  haven't they stopped shipping to a lot of retailers already?  Japan might get a year or two extra of the vita over all other regions apart from maybe China if it takes off there.  



Kerotan on 06 January 2015
MoHasanie said:
Of course not. There's no reason for them to try making Japanese games though.


Rock and a hard place.  if they dont pay big money for decent Japanese exclusives to boost sales then ps4 will keep getting almost all 3rd parties as exclusives.  Is final fantasy 15 ps4 exclusive in Japan? 



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Frogger on 06 January 2015
Kerotan said:

Sony will probably pull the vita out of most places before 2017.  haven't they stopped shipping to a lot of retailers already?  Japan might get a year or two extra of the vita over all other regions apart from maybe China if it takes off there.  


Obviously. By then, it'll have been 6 years old. That's a full life. The thing may as well be pulled now, though. It has no future.



Chazore on 06 January 2015

I'd imagine if they did I'd also expect Sony to pull the Vita they've been neglecting for the past few years from most places.



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Kerotan on 06 January 2015
kowenicki said:
Kerotan said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Loll man, its amazing how low it really is! But they probably won't cause it is still selling even if its selling piss poor


What if the 800 units it sells becomes 200 units a week in say 2 months from now. That's about 30 units a day. How can they afford to pay all their staff for numbers that bad. 


all their staff?

they dont sell them personally and deliver by hand...

 

What do all the people employed by xbox Japan do?



TiagoCosta on 06 January 2015
Kerotan said:
MoHasanie said:
Of course not. There's no reason for them to try making Japanese games though.


Rock and a hard place.  if they dont pay big money for decent Japanese exclusives to boost sales then ps4 will keep getting almost all 3rd parties as exclusives.  Is final fantasy 15 ps4 exclusive in Japan? 

Nope, multi.



Kerotan on 06 January 2015
spemanig said:
Kerotan said:

Sony will probably pull the vita out of most places before 2017.  haven't they stopped shipping to a lot of retailers already?  Japan might get a year or two extra of the vita over all other regions apart from maybe China if it takes off there.  


Obviously. By then, it'll have been 6 years old. That's a full life. The thing may as well be pulled now, though. It has no future.

Yeah but the vita is making profit still. Most of its software sales are digital which really helps profit margins