Glad to see that Xbox x Sega relationship still being strong. Don’t know why people want anything from that Sony boot licker of a company SE after they’ve shown nothing but distain for the Xbox brand. Let them cry over a fan base they haven’t made the slightest bit of effort to build not buying their games.

I think my main issue with this TGS show is that Xbox doesn't seem to realize they have a bit of a JRPG problem, it's such an important genre. Last TGS they had some like Ni No Kuni, and to their credit there were some surprise JRPG announces earlier this year like DQ Infinity Strash, P5 Tactica, and FF14, but this TGS only had the late port on Octopath 2. 

Where is Atelier? Koei Tecmo have now pretty much begged for a gamepass deal to start porting the series to Xbox 3 different times in the last 2 years, February 2022, September 2022, and March 2023, each time saying they would port the series if there was enough interest (a pretty strong hint, hint to Xbox that they want a Gamepass deal.

Where is Nihon Falcom? Both Stadia and Luna managed to get ports of some Ys and Legend of Heroes games, surely Xbox could make something happen here.

I can forgive the lack of FF7R, Phil did straight up say in the one Gamescom interview that there were some pre-existing Square deals they were trying to work around, seems like they are working out financials on a deal to end Sony's timed hat deals early and make that happen, so I can give them so more time on that one at least.

But overall I really want to see more progress on the JRPG issue and soon.

I don't really think they overhyped this showcase Tbh.

They promoted it more but there's a difference between promoting and hyping, promoting is what they should be doing for every show. We had a countdown from Xbox Japan Twitter, and Xbox SEA but as always, regional Twitter accounts are to be taken with a grain of salt, I don't believe the main Xbox Twitter account ever tweeted the countdown.

Phil didn't even mention TGS in the company email about things to look forward to, Lol.

Still it was a mid show and worse than last years but Yakuza was an awesome (and big) announcement. Square Enix continues to show signs of light in terms of supporting Xbox and have pledged twice now further support so it's just a matter of (sadly) waiting a little longer there and Square Enix is the main dude doing the big JRPGs nowadays so their absence hurts that area more.

I don't expect much from TGS anyway so I guess I'm not as bothered, its significance has rapidly diminished across the years and now Xbox is the only major platform holder doing a showcase, Lol. Least Phil and Sarah are there in person to talk to developers (the situation is still improving, doubled the amount of Japanese titles on their platform).

There are still gaps but I think if Square showed up like "here's FF7!" then that alone would have bumped it up a whole point, it didn't happen this showcase, but I do believe we will see Final Fantasy return to Xbox eventually as the relationship has been fixed and Square is slowly but surely supporting Xbox more again. Perhaps they're waiting for a bigger showcase, perhaps the contracts are still in place, or perhaps the porting isn't ready.

We had a few smaller titles like Suda/Swery's title which looks cool, Ace Attorney, but there was nothing like "WOW" for a big title, aside from Yakuza for Game Pass but that is already coming to Xbox, it needed a big surprise port like FF7 or something else, compared to last year we had a few big franchises returning to Xbox or releasing on Xbox for the first time, the pacing sucked too, Lol.

If Square was ready, it could have took this show to a 6-7.

I'm like 99% convinced that Sega got that ABK deal.

Maybe Xbox should offer it to others.

As long as Persona 6 doesn't skip, we good.

It’s skipping pimp. Deadass. 11/10 🔥🔥🔥 HYPE 

I can only imagine Atlus hasn't ported SMT over to Xbox yet because they're so busy with Persona titles, Lol.

You really asking for that tune up in empire huh? 

I wonder if Xbox couldn't have saved the FF14 announcement for this TGS or Square wanted to announce it at their event.

Sega is going crazy with the amount of stuff they're releasing between Persona and Yakuza,.

The Yakuza announcements, I was like "oh shit! Awesome" then I was like "and I'm still multiple games behind"

Please slow down, I can't keep up.