Damn that's sexy!!



.....your profile pic, I mean. But yeah, that white console is pretty sweet.

Actually it's more like 100-300% here are the % increase for Xbox 360 hardware when each Halo launch in their respective week:

216% when Halo 3 launch.

105% when Halo Reach launch.

107% when Halo 4 launch.

For the X1 it increased 259% when the MCC launch(although COD AW helped as well).

That's not their call.Sony probably got exclusivity on bundles/marketing.Maybe even exclusivity of the software in japan.

Xbox situation in japan became a snow ball:

it isn't selling -> dev don't release their games in japan for Xone -> repeat

Why should they leave the japanese market? for them its still bigger than other countries. Japan is a more important market than most other western countries for MS, a lot of games are devoloped there who are also released in the west. Its in their interest that they get released for xbox one too, thats why they want a bigger footprint over there

Do they not have a game more suited to Japan?

Seeing how abysmal sales are in Japan, even back to the 360, there is just no point in continuing to sell it in Japan. Japanese people just don't care about the Xbox brand. It's an awkward console that sits in its small section in the back and no one talks about it. Nothing is really going to change that. If they are fine with selling a little under a 1000 a week, then sure, they can keep going, but it's certainly not going to grow in sales.

I disagree. I think they should keep trying.

Like I said, it's not like they don't have any Japanese games coming. They got things like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts coming to the Xbox One.

It would probably take a while but if Microsoft actually advertised the Xbox in Japan as a system where you can get all these Japanese games on it would probably be selling much better. Which is why my question is why is it that they don't advertise these games for the Xbox One in Japan?

The only time I ever saw an Xbox One Japan ad (I saw it on the Xbox Japan youtube channel a while ago) it had mostly American gamesand only a few Japanese ones like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.

That actually looks badass. Why not WW?

The thing about the XBox getting some Japanese games is that they tried that with the 360. They had games like Tales of Vesparia, Eternal Sonata, and Gal Gun, to name a few, and they ended up making PS3 versions with more content. So people didn`t bother with the 360 versions anymore. I would find the 360 versions for 5-6 USDs each. It was pretty bad to see. Perhaps it could work if they kept those games on MS consoles, but if there is a PS version too, hardly anyone is going to care, and it won`t be worth it for some of these Japanese devs to do so. The Xbox in Japan is in a weird place that doesn`t really make a place for itself. PS pretty much has covered what the Xbox can do, and Ninten is unique enough that people still like them.

I remember seeing pictures about the launch day for Xbox 1, which shows accurately what they think about it, which is not very good.

Sorry, but I`m on the side that they should quit now and save themselves the trouble and money.

It's nice they aren't giving up on Japan, but it still won't move consoles.