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Gabriel84 on 24 July 2009

Not a fan of JRPG at all, and look at those JRPGs released current gen, not a lot of them sold over 0.5m (include the sales in Japan) let alone a million, JRPG is next to nothing now except in Japan.



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outlawauron on 24 July 2009
Gabriel84 said:
Not a fan of JRPG at all, and look at those JRPGs released current gen, not a lot of them sold over 0.5m (include the sales in Japan) let alone a million, JRPG is next to nothing now except in Japan.

And there isn't a single Japanese developed title in the top 20 selling Xbox 360 games, and you wonder why it's getting demolished by the Wii.



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candy2500 on 24 July 2009

its tactical to keep Sony slowed down, if Microsoft can cause Sony even minimal reasons to spend a little more time defending the home front, that's less time spent in other places.



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Joelcool7 on 25 July 2009
madskillz said:
Joelcool7 said:

Well the way I see it Microsoft could always out source the X-Box in Japan if they want to focus on other markets. I remember when Sega outsourced the Genesis I can't remember who too, but they gave the hardware rights to a third party to support the console! Microsoft could outsource the 360 to someone in Japan maybe Square-Enix or maybe a local hardware manufacturer. Then simply focus on software support for the region and allow a local company to give it a shot at making 360 a must buy!

Very interesting point. Would Japanese gamers bite at something that's just rebadged?

@ Pristine - you make a compelling argument - +1.

I don't know if they would bite more, but Microsoft could cut its losses by handing the 360 over to a third party manufacturer. A big company I would suggest Microsoft liscense the 360 to would be Sega Sammy, or maybe NamcoBandai. Both companies have created hardware in the past and have major pull in Japan. It would also incourage the japanese partner to produce exclusive content.

Or how about a non-gaming company. Maybe liscense the 360 to Toshiba or Phillips or another hardware manufacturer. Theirs plenty of partners who would likely jump at the chance to market the 360 in Japan. Best of all who better to sell a console to the japanese market then a Japanese manufacturer.

Also if Microsoft didn't want to out source hardware manufacturing they could build a Japanese subsiduary. Microsoft could purchase a couple japanese developers. Maybe Mystwalker and a couple other smaller studio's to help them build a Japanese user base. I remember when BlueDragon was released that the 360 momentarily become successful in Japan. Sure that faded as fast as BlueDragon did in the market place. But if Microsoft could get some more JRPG's and other Japanese titles exclusively on the 360 they could probubly become a moderate success!



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Xoj on 25 July 2009
Joelcool7 said:
madskillz said:
Joelcool7 said:

Well the way I see it Microsoft could always out source the X-Box in Japan if they want to focus on other markets. I remember when Sega outsourced the Genesis I can't remember who too, but they gave the hardware rights to a third party to support the console! Microsoft could outsource the 360 to someone in Japan maybe Square-Enix or maybe a local hardware manufacturer. Then simply focus on software support for the region and allow a local company to give it a shot at making 360 a must buy!

Very interesting point. Would Japanese gamers bite at something that's just rebadged?

@ Pristine - you make a compelling argument - +1.

I don't know if they would bite more, but Microsoft could cut its losses by handing the 360 over to a third party manufacturer. A big company I would suggest Microsoft liscense the 360 to would be Sega Sammy, or maybe NamcoBandai. Both companies have created hardware in the past and have major pull in Japan. It would also incourage the japanese partner to produce exclusive content.

Or how about a non-gaming company. Maybe liscense the 360 to Toshiba or Phillips or another hardware manufacturer. Theirs plenty of partners who would likely jump at the chance to market the 360 in Japan. Best of all who better to sell a console to the japanese market then a Japanese manufacturer.

Also if Microsoft didn't want to out source hardware manufacturing they could build a Japanese subsiduary. Microsoft could purchase a couple japanese developers. Maybe Mystwalker and a couple other smaller studio's to help them build a Japanese user base. I remember when BlueDragon was released that the 360 momentarily become successful in Japan. Sure that faded as fast as BlueDragon did in the market place. But if Microsoft could get some more JRPG's and other Japanese titles exclusively on the 360 they could probubly become a moderate success!

thats problem when the ps3 can sell jrpg better. there no point having 360 exclusive especially in japan where the ps3 will eat all the sales.

microsoft had tons of JRPG in 2008 til from tales of vesperia to star ocean 4 yet only managed to get numbers to 28k-30k but dropped quick to 7k-10k and then slow went to the 2700 it's now.

 



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Nightwish224 on 25 July 2009
Domicinator said:
Just don't forget---While 360 sales in Japan are not great, the PS3 is not doing so well either considering what it was SUPPOSED to do in Japan. Basically, this gen is a victory for MS in Japan because it has way surpassed the original Xbox. However, I bet Sony never would have thought that by this point in the gen, their overall PS3 sales in Japan would be this low. You can't just put a blanket comparison on the two.

This and they want more developer support.



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