OG Xbox users.
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They missed out, more for me. I've enjoyed the wonderful abundance of famicom, Saturn, and PC engine out of Japan. Hope some there can reap the same fun and cozy times from our Xbox
cope
They look pretty enthused to me.
>OHHH WOAW DIS NEVA FIT IN MY SHOO BOX HOUSE TOO BEEG TOO POWERFURR
frick 'em, I was too busy lugging my xbox to LAN parties to play halo and mechassault to care what the Japanese thought.
The Xbox could have been big in Japan with just a few tweaks.
>complete aesthetic redesign and renaming, capitalizing on nostalgia for the MSX
>fighting game friendly six button controller as default
>partnership with recognizable Japanese brand such as NEC, Mitsubishi, or Fujitsu. Market the "MSX-box" under this brand instead of Microsoft directly.
>include some basic productivity software releases and mouse+kb to trojan horse its way into a few extra households as a personal computer
>allow select eroge releases (with strict content controls, so in reality just really tame stuff) and market them as 18+ in certain stores
And I really do mean you have to completely drop the look and aesthetic of the system. You don't have to redesign the internals, but the system needs to gray or white in color without a big stupid neon green X on it. It needs to more Japanese PC-ish.
select eroge releases (with strict content controls, so in reality just really tame stuff) and market them as 18+ in certain stores
That's where you lost me.
Eroge is expected with the kind of release I'm describing. Every Japanese home PC system has lots of it.
There would be no tentacle rape, or probably any kind of sex at all.
Just games with nudity.
The skinemax of video gaming.
>fighting game friendly six button controller as default
Sorta like... this?
That's not good for playing fighting games. The black and white buttons are recessed and awkwardly placed.
But all they would have to do is make the new controller have the black and white buttons the same size as the ABXY buttons and in a more familiar saturn-style layout.
The button layout, quality of the black/white buttons, and the Dpad do not lend themselves to feeling nice as a fighting game controller unfortunately. They would unironically need a new controller layout for Japan with the dpad moved/changed and the buttons set up more like a Sega controller
The Saturn 3d controller with a second analog stick, basically.
Pretty much, which would ironically not be that crazy given MS and Sega's relationship. Obviously the two did some pretty cool stuff together but I bet there's a timeline where they struck gold rebranding the EtsuBatsu Hamburger machine in Japan as a Sega successor
too big for pussy ass jap hands
Itagaki is the most based Japanese man
This but you have to shrink it for Japan. No idea why the S was completely different. Its so obviously inferior.
Disagreed, the black and white buttons are fine as they are. Its on the S for making start/back/black/white fricking useless.
Its not as common because it didn't sell well. Like the Atari VCS, very expensive in Japan vs US.
ogre controller
>capitalizing on nostalgia for the MSX
Shit, that's a good idea. The MSX was popular in Japan, and I forgot that Microsoft essentially designed the thing. They definitely could and should have marketed it as the MSX3 or Super MSX or something.
the xbox was designed to be as anti-japan as possible to help it sell better in america. directX had a radiation logo and was originally referred to as the "manhattan project" internally. the codename for the xbox was the midway, in reference to the battle of midway in ww2. thats why the xbox's color was a bright neon radioactive green.
And your point being? This thread is about the Xbox in Japan that post is specifically about that concept. You're just spouting DID YOU KNOW?? wikipedia info everyone already knows.
>the xbox was designed to be as anti-japan as possible to help it sell better in america.
>has Dead or Alive 3/Xtreme Beach Volleyball on it
>has Jet Set Radio Future, Gunvalkyrie, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Phantom Dust, Blinx, Daisenryaku VII, Dino Crisis 3 as exclusive, Kakuto Chojin, Kabuki Warriors, Ninja Gaiden/Black, Phantom Crash, SMT NINE as JP Exclusive, Yugioh The Dawn of Destiny
It's not that it was designed to be Anti-Japan, it's that they couldn't compete with Sony
And let's face it, Japs will never pick a gaijin machine over Sony/Nintendo
>The Xbox could have been big in Japan with just a few tweaks.
Why? It already had the PS2 and GC. Nobody needed a third console. MS is useless, they only appealed to non-gamers.
The Gamecube was a bomb
No, it was THE bomb.
Was fricking kino
It bombed in Japan
Barely sold 4 million total
Decimated by the PS2
You could say the same thing about the Xbox in the USA.
You could say the same thing about every Xbox ever released anywhere.
>The Xbox could have been big in Japan with just a few tweaks.
If it were backward compatible with the Dreamcast, which apparently Sega wanted to help extend Dreamcast software sales, then it likely would have sold far better in Japan based on that alone.
It was kinda fighting game friendly to a point.
It had online play before the FGC irrevocably changed forever when SF4 hit and it was damn fun playing X2 with people online.
When AC released on the 360 the FGC was ruined and was no longer fun to play online to the point if you wanted to have fun you needed to play with people you knew.
Who gives a shit?
Use these kinds of Japanese machines as inspiration for the new aesthetic, but with a slightly updated look and feel.
Every one of those is ugly and bland. An American console is allowed to look like a big, stupid Monster Energy can if it wants to.
You're the kind of idiot that MS had working for them at the time.
>ugly
>bland
But you don't want to go full DVD player with it.
It still has to have that slightly whimsical video game system look to it.
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>Beat your gaycube, LAWL
>hahaha get fricked gaycubes amirite bros!?!
Need I remind you who's boss, XCuck?
I like online games, not jarpig menu simulators, movie slop, and melodramatic homosexual shit like kingdom sharts
nobody asked, Brown Anon
PS2 was the original movieslop console
>no friends
Friends are for couch co-op not online gaming with wifi shitters. Speaking of online, get a ethernet cable, be a true gamer.
OG Xbox could host 4 players on one console out of the box and we regularly lugged em over to each others houses for local LAN. PS2 only supported two players out the box.
Xbox was the better LAN part console and we regularly used them for that purpose.
>4 giant ass CRTs
see that why pc was always better, smaller screens
Being online is hardly social especially compared to local multiplayer
And Xbox was better at local multiplayer out of the box than PS2
have a nice day Hispanic.
>online games
Frick off back to Ganker you worthless zoomer spic
>I'll show you!
>posts the only console that actually looks like a vegana
lmao
Too buku?
Alabama black controller?
You like what you see?
Go on, you can touch it. It dont bite but it does spit.
The sweaty palms will help.
Its the interface command module bro
I have no response because I have no context. For all I know they're just having fun at a game museum or some shit I don't fricking now.
/jp/ is laughing at us again!
Good, we must be doing something right.
I've actually been curious what the OG Xbox aftermarket is like in Japan. The retro game stores posted online always show Nintendo, Sega, and Playstation but never Xbox.
Based Yamato chads laughing at bill gates' mountain dew shit
they love ninjas and mgs don't they, why isn't there a niche following for splinter cell
They're laughing at the controller because they know their manlet hands can't use it.
They're laughing at how big it is btw
>OWAAAA
>IT MAKU JAPANESE PENIS ROOK SO SMARR
>KEKEKE IT BIG RIKE BIG BURACK wienerOO~
>*commits ritual suicide out of shame*
No wonder they couldn't sell this thing in Japan, they should have just had Bob Sapp as their spokesman
It's okay, I can reshore the great games they don't appreciate as I do.
>2 DOA games above Halo 2
japaneses are such a fricking degenerates, holy shit
Gaylo 2 sucks ass
>inb4 muh multiplayer
b***h what shooter didn't have multiplayer you stupid butthole gaylo frickers don't know shit about fps b***hes
>days since a build engine groggnard meltdown: 0
I liked Quake and all, but that wasn't going to remain the formula forever. Halo elevated all aspects available in FPS at the time.
You will never be Chad Warden.
Fighting games > Shooter games.
More like
>Oppai >>>>> some gay in a suit
As you can see, they did have Halo 2 ranked just above the two DOA games in the previous month.
It is. The magazine gave some cool decals for the top of the Xbox. I just never had the heart to separate the character from the rest of the image since I only had the singular ones that came with the subscription.
Is that an issue of Famitsu Xbox?
i dont know what was the problem with huge consoles back in the early 2000s
I mean, we were just going out from the VHS era and these players were enormous. Audio equipment was also ridiculous huge at this point, and CRT TVs were getting up to 40 inches in size
i would rather have a huge console if that means the price would be 50-100usd lower
A bigger console meant that the enginner could cut cost since space wasnt a constraint, cooling was more efficient to do, and the danger of the console falling off the furniture was lower
The 3DO did really well in Japan.
Would be cool if the Xbox got more Japanese games tbh
Japan was never going to support Xbox because it was an American brand. The "Xbox is too big" for Japan is just a convenient excuse.
>TOO BIG FOR JAPAN TOO BIG FOR JAPAN
>WOAH WOAH
>I DON'T HAVE THE SPACE FOR THAT SHIT
>average OG Xbox hater
XBOX could be better if
>opened up to indie developers
in 2010 the best-selling game of all time was a small indie game about blocks
>keep third parties on side
it's well documented that Microsoft dropped partnerships with companies after the companies didn't live up to their expectations and only now have they changed that behavior
That's it, the console was the second best-selling console of that generation and although it sold less hardware than the PS2 it also had one of the best-selling games of the same generation.
The only console i can play i have big bones and sausage fingers so is the only console that doesn't look like a phone to me and the control is comfortable enough for my big hands and sausage fingers.
I knew it was a console for fatsos.
Their loss. The console was good with some really good games to enjoy.
The OG XBOX was cool as frick for the time, onlyne gaming and the best graphics. What's not to like?
It played SMT: NINE