'Persona' is definitely the problem but not in the way Spencer thinks.

The 360 did better in Japan because it had notable Japanese games. With that said, getting games Japan cares about is a waste of money for MS.

Big budget western focused games moves more hardware worldwide. If anything, MS should encourage ports but not fund big Japanese games.

Since they can just reuse assets, making DLC would be more profitable than throwing the game onto a platform that won't equal its port cost.  There's other paths to making profit than porting.  All I'm saying is I think Square realized they would make more money doing other things (like splitting FFVII into 3 parts and remastering games like FFX and KH2.8 at lower costs than a main game) than just relying on ports that won't meet expectations.  I just don't think an X1 port is worth it fiancially as the audience isn't there.  PC is a whole different beast since that industry is more porfitable as seen by Alan Wake making its money back in 48 hours.  Square just wastes too much money in general and the resources and money used to port to the Xbox One could go to other things like an idea similar to those garbage amiibos Nintendo makes bank off of, or other non-gaming things.  (No offense to those who buy them but they're a rip off, one has to be a huge Nintendo enthusiast to buy those)

Persona 5 is the biggest jrpg-masterpiece in the last and next years. Cant wait of february !!! < 3

good japanese games are important for xbox, but Yakuza Zero, Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Collection, Ni-Oh, Persona 5 and Tales of Berseria coming only for PS4 in the first 2017-quarter. i think, phil spencer want the big games from japan in future. But.. the chance is not big in my opinion. Nier Automata, Shenmue 3, Death Stranding and World of Final Fantasy are coming for PS4 too, but not for X1. That is a big problem.

Uncharted 4 did in Japan what Forza Horizon 3 did in the USA, Isn't that bad. There are over 3.5 millions of PS4 on Japan agaisnt 12+ millions of Xbox One on the USA.

The interesting thing is that not even Recore charted on Japan's software rank. It only needed to sell above 1500-2000 units, on launch, to chart.

It seems that the people who purchase the Xbox on Japan are mainly from western countries that want to play Xbox games.

I don't know much about the Wii U's hardware, but I think that it is more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360. Even so they released games for the previous gen and nothing for the Wii U. In the kickstarter campaing of a racing game, I think that was Project Cars, they included a Wiiu version, but I don't know if they already released that.

You need time to develop to other consoles.  The game need to marketed in both versions + production costs. Those companies need to make profit in the hundreds of millions with those games.

If it is an extra 15-20 millions to make the Xbox One version and it only sells 1 million with the profit rate of 30US$ per unit, it won't be enought for Square or for other big companies. 

Square is the tipe of company that makes big and small games, if they lend 30-50 people for the Xbox One's version, they would  get more money if those people work in another game instead. Like their mobile games, or  other games like World of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest builders/heroes etc. That will probably sell more  than the Xbox One's version of FFXV, Kingdom Hearts 3.

This so much. Japan isn't that huge into console gaming anyways.

Wow I didn't see this coming

I think Spencer knows but this is PR-mode. It's very rare, almost non-existant that CEOs, corporate chiefs, division leaders...you know big shots, would go out there and publicly talk about the ugly facts when there is no need to give such an answer. These sort of interviews are always the same, no matter the company, it's puppet talk.

Yeah and this gen that scene is almost entirely lost to Sony. They really did weather that storm last gen.