frankie_baby
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Considering all the extra costs for Japanese localisation there can't surely be any possible way x bone is gonna be profitable in Japan
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Xbox One sold 23k during launch week in Japan, TitanFall best-selling title
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Considering all the extra costs for Japanese localisation there can't surely be any possible way x bone is gonna be profitable in Japan
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
Platinum is probably thinking man, we should'av asked for more money
Lion Heart
Banned
Unbelievably bad.
Coulomb_Barrier
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Holy shit not even 50k. Worse than even the worse predictions.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Having to keep up appearances that they can sell in japan, because admitting to giving up knowing noone there wants one would be bad PR for their system.
With that 2 billion dollar minecraft rumor, they could have given away over 200 japanese launches worth of xbox ones at 400 dollars
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
Lowered expectations: the thread.
Man, those are really awful numbers.
What's the LTD in Japan for the Xbox and Xbox 360?
Man, those are really awful numbers.
What's the LTD in Japan for the Xbox and Xbox 360?
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
Hm, completely missed that post. Well, seems like X1 won't even break 1M in Japan, no?
I dunno, I laughed when I saw someone predict 30k, and this is pretty close to that. My prediction was 7k, so selling 23k is actually surprising to me.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
I could've sworn someone predicted 50k. Looks like that didn't happen. Can't wait to see the overall performance of all games and systems this week.
fastford58
Member
Dismal, but expected.
It probably outsold Vita so XBoner is best selling console for the week!!! The true king has returned!
haha I'm kidding
Where "Titan" = "Microsoft"
shiftplusone
Member
I've been seeing all over other forums that Sony has the sale lead now, but they launched in 3x as many countries.
Just wait till Microsoft launches in those same markets and then it's OVER for Sony!
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
and China.......don't forget about China please!
Just picked the predictions of the So the Xbox One launches today in Japan... thread. There were surprisingly few when ignoring the Kaz quote.
Too high.
Too low.
Pretty good. Trustworthy buttocks.
Mhm.
I hope this serves as a wake-up call for any Japanese companies considering to create Xbone exclusives for Japan. Any game going only to Xbone in Japan and not PS4 is going there to die.
Good thing that Japanese doujin game creators seem to have seen the light already, and the announcement of a new 2D shooter by the creator of Ikaruga for PS4 is making me hopeful.
Good thing that Japanese doujin game creators seem to have seen the light already, and the announcement of a new 2D shooter by the creator of Ikaruga for PS4 is making me hopeful.
mysteriousmage09
Member
L O fucking L.
Good job MS!
Good job MS!
They probably got some good money for making an exclusive, so maybe they don't even care that much
DeadManWalking
Member
Japanese don't rike it.
Justice_Bolt
Member
Ouch this is so bad...
They (and you) need to think long-term, as in, potential sequels. Money-hats are usually one-time things, as demonstrated by the Japanese RPGs that came to 360 near the start of last gen.
Holographix
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That's a shame, I thought it would be a flamboyant success after seeing that crowd waiting in line to get one.
That room would be approximately 0.2% of the Xbox installed base in Japan.
You referring to this?
Still not sure how less than 100k and more than 50k is considered cautious. I personally would have gone over 30k and even that was off.
Omotesando
Member
Expected. Xbox One doing very bad in Playstation countries in Europe and in Japan it was expected to do extremely bad.
Welfare
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Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Poor Platinum, I mean they are getting paid regardless I guess, but they have had rough luck lately. Maybe Capcom will throw some money at them for a modern Megaman or Omnimusha and they can find some commercial success again.
They don't have anything else to port, DDP Saidaioujou was their last arcade game. Besides, if MS pays for a new game I don't think they'll say no. It's just unrealistic that MS will try again to get small Japanese devs support. As long as they have the big guys (Konami, Capcom, Square, Namco), they're fine.
Justice_Bolt
Member
Hahahaha! 10/10
People actually thought the XB1 would be a thing in Japan?
I guess the only smart thing to do is to have these exclusive games aimed at the western market anyway. That there's an Xbox exclusive visual novel coming up is a bit bonkers.
It sold more than PS4 and Wii U combined this week
Expect to see that pop up in headlines.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Oh dear this is bad alright but I didn't expect anything great. If I can see anything positive in that... all the Japanese XBOX One exclusive might eventually become multiplatform sooner or later?
Wonder if this pushed them over the edge in their decision matrix that deals with when to spend the emergency $2billion.
Japan - lost
Europe - lost
NA - losing
September is going to be a huge PS4 win...and critical momentum headed into the critical second holiday season is squarely with Sony.
Japan - lost
Europe - lost
NA - losing
September is going to be a huge PS4 win...and critical momentum headed into the critical second holiday season is squarely with Sony.
More than that. Shit like X1 selling 2 million in Japan or "let's not write it off until we have numbers" and posting crap from 2chan.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
*BREAKING: leaked images of Xbox Japans only customer support agent sleeping on the job at head office*
I'm sure they'd just fax their customer support requests anyways.
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