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-SP-
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 Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:23 pm |
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Microsoft really wants to break in to Japan, too bad they will fail again.
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Kisuke525
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:43 pm |
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| -SP- wrote: | | Microsoft really wants to break in to Japan, too bad they will fail again. |
I'm sure they do but is this really an attempt? The game dosen't even have an xbox version in Japan lol.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 11:09 pm |
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| Kisuke525 wrote: | | -SP- wrote: | | Microsoft really wants to break in to Japan, too bad they will fail again. |
I'm sure they do but is this really an attempt? The game dosen't even have an xbox version in Japan lol. |
I think there is an attempt, maybe not with this game directly, but for example the new Yakuza game. Yakuza 7 will first come out on the Xbox series X and release on the PS5 at a later date. I doubt the sales will be that great, on the Xbox vs the PS5s once it's out on there as well.
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Pandsu
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| Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:49 am |
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I'm not sure any of that is even primarily about breaking INTO Japan (maybe 50% that, at the most) but rather about getting western fans OF Japanese content on board and profiting off of them. Even on 360 that was definitely a big part of the equation. I mean, Tales of Vesperia was Xbox-exclusive only in the West, while Japan got the PS3 version later, but in turn got a better version of it. And weren't there some other examples of games that were multi-plat or Sony/Nintendo only in Japan and on Xbox in the West? I feel like there were but I could be wrong.
Still, more typical/traditional Japanese content has been immensely popular in the west for a long time and the general perception has always been that, even in the West, you'd find that mostly on non-MS systems while MS was more focused on US and European-made content. I think their current strategy is largely designed to break that perception.
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