Then again, Japanese close mindedness has resulted in a pretty poor offering across the board... Of course you have a few exceptions... But IMHO their glory days are largely overstated and over rated today.... And even the good ones lack of ambition and especially lack of crativity it's been pretty much the same formula reaheated a hundred times over... It's just stale by now....
And their stubborn uncalled patriotism is weakening their own companies... Not enough localizations, not enough multi plat= les ROI= less and less budget for the next game= less and less quality.... They need to wake up and get into the 21st century era of doing business especially in the tech industry it's more true than anywhere else...

So working with MS if only to have their games on PC should be a no brainer....

wait Sony taking risks ???? We are talking about the same company here???? If there is a company with a shit management, holding on one leg for a decade, with zero ambition, bleeding cash like a slitted swine, not even able to leverage their own licences to support it's own divisions it's Sony.... I know I actually worked with their marketing division in Europe in the past and one of my best friend is handling their social media advertising budget... If there is one company lacking ambition and vision it's Sony by far.... Sea of thieves, sunset overdrive, fable, halo, forza h, QB etc were all more ambitious and original than what I ha e seen coming out of sony

Funny how, as you post this, the front page shows two Japanese games with 90+ metascore. RE7, Nioh, Nier and Yakuza 0 are prominent 2017 critical hits. Soon, Splatoon 2 & ARMS will join the list. The Last Guardian is too recent to be forgetton as well. Toss in Danganronpa and Zero Escape 2017 collections and tell me you are not living in a post-fact world.

No Go on. Tell me how the trifecta of Forza/Halo/Gears and the dead carcass of Fable outclass the output Sony has had this year ALONE. 

I agree that MS should be encouraged to bring to more Japanese games to their platform but they should also be criticised for any half assed attempts. The overall goal in my opinion in the "get more Japanese games" effort is not to do better in Japan but appeal to gamers around the world that like Japanese games. It's completely worth the effort for MS.

Well Sony has had Horizon, Gravity Rush, and The Show so far. Is this where opinions come in? Because I'd take Halo Wars 2 over GR2/Show 17 any day of the week. And Sony needed a strong first quarter since AFAIK they didn't release anything but TLG in the last quarter of 2016, though I could be wrong and missing a game or two.

I mean.. if you're talking risk, the only risky game in Sony's output this year has been GR2, and I doubt it was even much of a risk, no way did it have a budget requiring tons of sales. Or by "Sony's output" are you including third party games Sony didn't touch like Nioh, Persona, and Neir?

Bingo. Actually, I think the Japanese offerings have been unusually weak lately, but I remember that before the Xbox One, whenever MS developed a Japanese game, it was always top of the line. Here's hoping they still hold them up to high standards. 

They deserve the mockery and disrespect, lets remember that they didnt care at all some months until all these Japanese PS4 games actually got good reviews on metacritic. They canceled Scalebound a Japanese exclusives on their platform too some month ago.

No, they stopped when they named Mattrick head of Xbox. Spencer tried but Scalebound didn't pan out so they are now relying on PDR... 

Not sure if I agree on that one they made some great games and Halo defenitly is a milestone for first person shooters. Ninja Gaiden was also great and all big companies pull some lousy moves at times. Except for Nintendo obviously because they can't do anything wrong.