Microsoft released the console in Japan (with marketing included), so... is business for them...So, these numbers are relevant here.this thread is just to flame and be negative, whats next a thread comparing switch and PC graphics?
The Xbox does not do well in japan...a small market that really means nothing other then alot of companies are home based there...the biggest country for game sales and revenue is America, if you group a bunch of places then itd Europe and then America.
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This news personally affect you? Or Neogaf have a new rule about news that i am missing?? Or maybe.. you want to only read news that please you?
This exactly.People misunderstand Xboxs presence in Japan. While there were some sincere efforts to boost it during 360s heyday, sponsoring big acts concert tours and such, even tomthe point of putting Xbox logos on their amps, Xbox is not in Japan to sell games or systems.....in Japan.
Japan is a society which is all about keeping up appearances. Microsoft pays rent on their shelf space in major game retailers for the specific purpose of keeping up those appearances, as the Japanese brass will be much less likely to greenlight development, or make good deals on a system they cant be marched down to Yodobashi camera and shown its got a solid footing against PlayStation. Thats just the way things work there. Like so many things. You just have to shrug, say when in Romeand soldier on.
Not really.Aren't these actually good numbers for MS in Japan?
Not "never".The Xbox 360 was a huge progress compared to the OG Xbox because Microsoft actually tried hard. But in the second half of the last generation Microsoft fucked everything up.
The Xbox does not do well in japan...a small market that really means nothing other then alot of companies are home based there...the biggest country for game sales and revenue is America, if you group a bunch of places then itd Europe and then America.
The results show garbage ass games like ARK selling in Japan. Don't even get me started on the 9,000 year old demon games.Japan is where true gamers are. The result show.
The results show garbage ass games like ARK selling in Japan.
Microsoft should not even release their next console in Japan. It's pointless.
So what strategy will/can they employ that ever gets the Xbox brand off the ground in Japan? That region is Nintendo/Sony territory and more precisely portable/handheld market.
As an aside, today is the 16th anniversary of the Xbox brand's release in North America.
Xbox brand, they need to buy some Japanese studios.
Halo and Gears won't sway the japanese, nor 4k.
ARK sells everywhere though. What did that game do to you that you had to mention it in a completely unrelated thread?
People misunderstand Xboxs presence in Japan. While there were some sincere efforts to boost it during 360s heyday, sponsoring big acts concert tours and such, even tomthe point of putting Xbox logos on their amps, Xbox is not in Japan to sell games or systems.....in Japan.
Japan is a society which is all about keeping up appearances. Microsoft pays rent on their shelf space in major game retailers for the specific purpose of keeping up those appearances, as the Japanese brass will be much less likely to greenlight development, or make good deals on a system they cant be marched down to Yodobashi camera and shown its got a solid footing against PlayStation. Thats just the way things work there. Like so many things. You just have to shrug, say when in Romeand soldier on.
Well.. looks like Microsoft still had some hope. Because they released the Xbox One X there....
Well, MS knows Japan is a dead market to them, so those 1344 units are an achievement.
If they released it there, they had expectations...Wasn't Spencer in Japan recently securing some game deals et al.?.....But they have never supported Xbox, why would they start now?
Why would they if there are no games?
To summarize the last Launch week of the X in Japan visually:
Oh no xbox one x is DOOOOOMED.
Brb checking some digital foundry video's
About what kind of BEAST xbox one x is.
Tbh japan can keep their crap games also.
Oh no xbox one x is DOOOOOMED.
Brb checking some digital foundry video's
About what kind of BEAST xbox one x is.
Tbh japan can keep their crap games also.
MY thoughts exactly, if they can maintain these numbers in Japan in the following weeks, it will be good for them.I'm surprised that they sold 1,344 units actually. seems like good numbers for a launch xbox
Was it really? I saw a thread on GAF about one retailer in the UK being sold out of XBONEX pre-orders and people run with that as if it was a worldwide scenario, but I can't believe they expected to sell out in Japan, unless preorder allocation was 1344 for that region...Wasn't it reported last week that all the Xbox One X preorders in Japan were sold out days before launch? It seems like they didn't allocate a lot of consoles for the region to begin with. These numbers are kind of skewed... Not that it matters anyways. Japan is too prideful to support any Microsoft product anyways.