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more japanese love for 360 ? maybe from konami e namco

Guys I think some of you have just underestimated Microsoft and (Nintnedo for that matter) from the beginning. There were posts clearly stating that Microsoft didn’t have a chance to take Sony’s crown and years past there were similar statements for Nintendo and Sega. Some have just thought there was “no way possible”. Well guys here we are again, it’s possible. When you have a lead that Microsoft has in user base and you have a competitor like Nintendo firing like it is, it’s very hard to catch up and chances are you might not. So let’s see how the game play’s out!
 
Man my computer dies on me for 2 days and I miss all this stuff. Honestly, MGS4 would be nice if it made it to the 360, but that's one genre where the 360 is not light on. If I had a choice I'd take a new Silent Hill over MGS4 as a 360 game.

Namco = Soul Calibur please + true next gen Ridge Racer.
 
Since the start of Video Games no company has ever dominated three generations in a row. Time has come to pass for the downfall of Sony, as for told by generations past. It is a repeating pattern with only two outcomes; the crash of the industry or the rise of a new titan.
 
Sony should focus on building a strong portfolio of first party titles, which they are actually doing. Third party exclusives are truly a thing of the past especially from Namco and Konami which seem to be struggling big time. I mean what was the last game Konami made some big clams on??

For the sake of the developers and their survival I hope the big AAA budget games are multiplatform
 
Doom_Bringer said:
Sony should focus on building a strong portfolio of first party titles, which they are actually doing. Third party exclusives are truly a thing of the past especially from Namco and Konami which seem to be struggling big time. I mean what was the last game Konami made some big clams on??

For the sake of the developers and their survival I hope the big AAA budget games are multiplatform
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I agree with you.
The problem is that these blogs and sites in the interest of hits and viewers instead paint it as an atrocity, and that it is all doom and gloom.
Then the pavlovian assclowns on message boards dive in just for the sake of diving in, some just because they are bored and others just plain ignorant flaws with the whole sony am doomed amirite snort snort massive damage snort snort bullshit.
When a title goes from one system to the PS3 it gets a little blurb in a corner.
When it goes multiplatform it is front page.
Assassins Creed, Fatal Inertia and whatnot were known by most not to be exclusives.
The only two real hits were DQ9, which skipped all 3 next gen systems and now VF5.
Did DQ9 hurt? yep.
Deadly? Nope.
VF5, did is shock me? Yep
Does it sting? Yep
Deadly? Nope
360 is doing alot of things right, but so is the PS3.
 
OokieSpookie said:
I agree with you.
The problem is that these blogs and sites in the interest of hits and viewers instead paint it as an atrocity, and that it is all doom and gloom.
Then the pavlovian assclowns on message boards dive in just for the sake of diving in, some just because they are bored and others just plain ignorant flaws with the whole sony am doomed amirite snort snort massive damage snort snort bullshit.
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Oh my.
 
OokieSpookie said:
The only two real hits were DQ9, which skipped all 3 next gen systems and now VF5.
Did DQ9 hurt? yep.
Deadly? Nope.
VF5, did is shock me? Yep
Does it sting? Yep
Deadly? Nope
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Why in the sake of baby Jesus are you describing losing exclusives in terms of some sort of pain it causes you as a gamer? ****ing fanboys.

Read the "PS3 announce PR" for Assassin's Creed, the word exclusive was never used -- if it's not expressly called an Exclusive in the PR don't bet on it being one. And I'm sure there are loop holes around that.
 
OokieSpookie said:
I agree with you.
The problem is that these blogs and sites in the interest of hits and viewers instead paint it as an atrocity, and that it is all doom and gloom.
Then the pavlovian assclowns on message boards dive in just for the sake of diving in, some just because they are bored and others just plain ignorant flaws with the whole sony am doomed amirite snort snort massive damage snort snort bullshit.
When a title goes from one system to the PS3 it gets a little blurb in a corner.
When it goes multiplatform it is front page.
Assassins Creed, Fatal Inertia and whatnot were known by most not to be exclusives.
The only two real hits were DQ9, which skipped all 3 next gen systems and now VF5.
Did DQ9 hurt? yep.
Deadly? Nope.
VF5, did is shock me? Yep
Does it sting? Yep
Deadly? Nope
360 is doing alot of things right, but so is the PS3.
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I can almost taste the tears.
 
Scoot said:
Why in the sake of baby Jesus are you describing losing exclusives in terms of some sort of pain it causes you as a gamer? ****ing fanboys.

Read the "PS3 announce PR" for Assassin's Creed, the word exclusive was never used -- if it's not expressly called an Exclusive in the PR don't bet on it being one. And I'm sure there are loop holes around that.
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Shane = wrong on 1up Yours Podcast and DMC4 360 = confirmed? :D

Just playin'
 
I was under the impression 360 was underperforming for the last year? I mean, all summer all I heard around here was 'it is doing the same as the first Xbox' or 'PS2 is still beating it'. Why has the tide changed? becauce NPD shows that Sony botched this holiday and microsoft pushed 500k 360's in November? That isn't THAT good. After all, 360 is still BOMBING in japan.


I can understand 360 software doing great....but where is all of this coming from?
 
X360 isn't performing very well.

But PS3 is performing abysmally.

Of course, it's due to the complete lack of units available to sell, but in the eyes of devs, it only matters that they're not selling.
 
OokieSpookie said:
I agree with you.
The problem is that these blogs and sites in the interest of hits and viewers instead paint it as an atrocity, and that it is all doom and gloom.
Then the pavlovian assclowns on message boards dive in just for the sake of diving in, some just because they are bored and others just plain ignorant flaws with the whole sony am doomed amirite snort snort massive damage snort snort bullshit.
When a title goes from one system to the PS3 it gets a little blurb in a corner.
When it goes multiplatform it is front page.
Assassins Creed, Fatal Inertia and whatnot were known by most not to be exclusives.
The only two real hits were DQ9, which skipped all 3 next gen systems and now VF5.
Did DQ9 hurt? yep.
Deadly? Nope.
VF5, did is shock me? Yep
Does it sting? Yep
Deadly? Nope
360 is doing alot of things right, but so is the PS3.
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Let me tell you one thing....we do it because we know it hurts you.

:lol
 
i can't think of any 3rd party ip that is playstation exclusive (maybe ace combat?)

but sure, lets ignore the horrible 360 sales and act like even if every ps3 game came out on 360 it would place better than 3rd in the console war :lol
 
Pureauthor said:
X360 isn't performing very well.

But PS3 is performing abysmally.

Of course, it's due to the complete lack of units available to sell, but in the eyes of devs, it only matters that they're not selling.
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In the eyes of devs it only matters how many games they can sell on a system. XBox 360 right now has a larger userbase and a great ratio games:consoles, while PS3 has a tiny userbase that don't buy games.
 
MbGCaM said:
In the eyes of devs it only matters how many games they can sell on a system. XBox 360 right now has a larger userbase and a great ratio games:consoles, while PS3 has a tiny userbase that don't buy games.
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ps2 had like 13 games/console while xbox had 8 games/console

360 is trailing behind the first xbox in both sales and attach ratio

maybe you should let the ps3 launch before making stupid claims?
 
More overanalysis and overreacting, it seems.

Did we not come to the conclusion, even prior to PS3's launch, that both it and 360 would probably share a lot more third party games? Well, this is what's happening! It was to be expected.

Of course, it's due to the complete lack of units available to sell, but in the eyes of devs, it only matters that they're not selling.
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Yes, and as more units become available throughout 2007, you can bet that Japanese devs will be paying close attention so they know where to put their games.
 
I would think that software sells and turns profits. Doesn't the 360 have the highest attach rate for games to consoles sold? THey're doing really well and other devs want to take advantage of that as well.
 
D2G said:
ps2 had like 13 games/console while xbox had 8 games/console

360 is trailing behind the first xbox in both sales and attach ratio

maybe you should let the ps3 launch before making stupid claims?
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It appears you are the one making stupid claims

At the same juncture in console life as the Xbox, this is how it stacks up

Xbox 1 hardware sales: 3930500
Xbox 360 hardware sales: 3775500

Xbox 1 software sales: 9097000
Xbox 360 software sales: 19214500
 
underfooter said:
I was under the impression 360 was underperforming for the last year? I mean, all summer all I heard around here was 'it is doing the same as the first Xbox' or 'PS2 is still beating it'. Why has the tide changed? becauce NPD shows that Sony botched this holiday and microsoft pushed 500k 360's in November? That isn't THAT good. After all, 360 is still BOMBING in japan.


I can understand 360 software doing great....but where is all of this coming from?
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you answer your own question.

"software is doing great"

that's all 3rd parties care about. sales of software are through the roof on 360. that = $$ for them.
 
shpankey said:
you answer your own question.

"software is doing great"

that's all 3rd parties care about. sales of software are through the roof on 360. that = $$ for them.
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With the year MS is going to have for 2007, it's only going to get better.
 
hydragonwarrior said:
The first thing I thought about when I read "japanese love", "360" and "konami" was MGS4. I'm surprised this thread isn't full of MGS4 replies :lol
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Bannage, MGS4 is somewhat sensitive subject matter on this board
 
Agent Icebeezy said:
It appears you are the one making stupid claims

At the same juncture in console life as the Xbox, this is how it stacks up

Xbox 1 hardware sales: 3930500
Xbox 360 hardware sales: 3775500

Xbox 1 software sales: 9097000
Xbox 360 software sales: 19214500
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Uh... link?

I know 360 has a high tie-ratio, but my understanding is that Xbox 1 always had an excellent one as well. Your numbers there tell an entirely different story.
 
hydragonwarrior said:
The first thing I thought about when I read "japanese love", "360" and "konami" was MGS4. I'm surprised this thread isn't full of MGS4 replies :lol
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Most of the ardent defenders died in a heroic last stand at the VF5 to 360 thread.
 
hydragonwarrior said:
The first thing I thought about when I read "japanese love", "360" and "konami" was MGS4. I'm surprised this thread isn't full of MGS4 replies :lol
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I'm sorry to say I prefer RPG's. Of course MGS4 would be a huge boost for the system.
 
shpankey said:
there's a reason for that actually :lol
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I thought that only applied to the VF5 thread (since VF5 has nothing to do with MGS4). But yeah, I can see people getting a bit nervous talking about MGS4 given the 40-ish bannings in that thread.

But Amirox said MGS4 already so I'm (hopefully) safe :)
 
Odysseus said:
Oh, vgcharts.

You could have just said "I misspoke, I take it back."
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Why would I say that, all of this comes from NPD charts, it's as authentic as it gets
 
Agent Icebeezy said:
Why would I say that, all of this comes from NPD charts, it's as authentic as it gets
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No, it isn't.

It's missing A LOT of data, for one. That site has 69 million pieces of software total for Xbox 1, putting its tie ratio somewhere around 5 for the life of the system. Xbox's true tie-ratio is nearly double that, if I recall correctly. That site is worthless for this comparison.
 
Odysseus said:
No, it isn't.

It's missing A LOT of data, for one. That site has 69 million pieces of software total for Xbox 1, putting it's tie ratio somewhere around 5 for the life of the system. Xbox's true tie-ratio is nearly double that, if I recall correctly. That site is worthless for this comparison.
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Plus, Halo had to have sold like 5 million copies the first year anyway. Something else had to sell at least some copies. Like Bloodwake.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
Plus, Halo had to have sold like 5 million copies the first year anyway. Something else had to sell at least some copies. Like Bloodwake.
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eh, that may be true. Oh well, I just know that the 360 sales data is correct. That was my main point. Sales are thru the roof with it.
 
Culdcept Saga
Far East of Eden: Ziria
Blue Dragon series
Lost Odyssey series
Infinite Undiscovery
Cry On
Trusty Bell/Eternal Sonata
+more to be announced in coming months if this thread is indication
+literal assload of cream-of-crop Western RPG's

They are destroying the original Xbox in terms of Japanese RPG's.
 
Agent Icebeezy said:
eh, that may be true. Oh well, I just know that the 360 sales data is in the neighborhood. That was my main point. Sales are thru the roof with it.
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Slightly fixed, and I agree. But Xbox 1 was no slouch.
 
Outdoor Miner said:
Culdcept Saga
Far East of Eden: Ziria
Blue Dragon series
Lost Odyssey series
Infinite Undiscovery
Cry On
Trusty Bell/Eternal Sonata
+more to be announced in coming months if this thread is indication
+literal assload of cream-of-crop Western RPG's

They are destroying the original Xbox in terms of Japanese RPG's.
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Yeah, they are doing very well in that regard.
 
Hey!

How about a new Next gen Goemon (Mystical Ninja) game from Konami?

That would rock!



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Y2Kevbug11 said:
Let's see...

People want the PS3 to lose exclusivity on third party games...but the PS3 will still HAVE those games...

The N64 just didn't have the games!
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This is a good thing to remember... really outside DQ9, PS3 has yet to actually lose any of it's major JP franchises (FFXIII, MGS4, VF5, Sonic, T6, RR7, DMC4, MH3, RE5, etc, etc). They may be losing exclusivity more and more, but that's just the direction the market's headed... it's not really comparable to N64 (which lost virtually everything but Goemon, Castlevania, ISS, Bomberman, Harvest Moon, Furai no Shiren and Ogre Battle).
 
Anyways, I think it can be agreed on that the 360 has a LOT of Japanese support as it is.


SO MANY high profile RPG's are coming out that this is starting to remind me of the PS2....
 
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