Why has it never worked?
I remember back before the 360 that everyone blamed the bulky design for turning Japanese buyers away, then they made the 360 concave to directly address this but that still didn't sell anything in Japan.
How come they don't want him, man?
Japanese are fanboys.
They like Nintendo and Sony, and that's it. They didn't even like Sega back in the day.
Yeah I don’t know how anyone could look at the Famitsu sales charts every week and think that the Japanese are these cultured aesthetes with perfect taste
Even americans and yuropoors dont care about xbox anymore
no games
how will the honorable japanese play these games without anime ass and tits?!?!? Where is the fanservice?!?!
There are some hidden Japanese gems on the 360, and some Japanese companies got the memo (Fromsoft)
Chinks hate Gaijins they are Racists its funny since they all look like Bugs
They look better than you Jamal
What made the 360 era so great? Yes they had a lot of games, but who was in charge to make this happen in the first place?
Japanese pride, would be my guess
Not that it matters
It's still normal to think video games are for children in Japan
Wonder what's going to happen when Microsoft buys a Japanese publisher.
Japs only play japshit. They're out of touch and ignorant like that.
They mostly play obscur JRPGs and visual novels only released on Playstation
Its not a huge number, but theyre slowly recover. I guess /vt/ shill works
The only people who like Xbox are unironically Mexicans. Also me, but mostly because I hate Sony
lack of Japanese dev support, particuarly JRPGs, Microsoft have only recently learned this lesson and finally got ports of Persona and Dragon Quest XI
Xbox is only really popular in the US.
the 360 had a ton of well recieved japanese games. microsoft just didnt hold on to them when they transitioned to xbox one and they totally dropped the ball in japan going forward.
Not being racist but very honest, they don’t like western companies and it’s also the reason Sony is losing ground over there since they moved their headquarters they no longer see song as a Japanese company.
Japan are notoriously xenophobic.
>xenophobic
that's a hateful way to say they love themselves and their unique culture.
why are you inbred?
They love themselves and their culture so much that they refuse to breed with each other and willingly allow American slop to become entrenched in their society.
wrong, they blamed the X in XBOX.
it's actually because Japanese people are not interchangeable with fat dumb christian americans
How can you mock Americans after admitting Japanese saw a product with an X as it's name/logo and thought "hurr durr datto mean donta buy it!"?
>why has it never worked?
It did though? Stranger of Sword City is Xbox 360 / Xbox One /Microsoft exclusive.
Sounds like it worked for certain games like Zegapain and some SEGA games. Og Xbox is often called the Dreamcast 2.
Even with that, it's so weird remembering the japanese exclusives the 360 got.
Xbox peaked with Halo and has been declining ever since. Every single sale they ever made was the result of Halo hype / nostalgia. (which is also the reason why the sales declined into nothing as soon as Halo went to shit)
Japanese people don't care about first person shooters, meaning that they also don't care about Halo. So why should they buy an Xbox?
>Why did this company that is openly in an economic war with their country never find acceptance in it?
They knew that Microsoft was scum and that anything they produce would turn to shit.
the Xbox brand is the only part of Microsoft that stopped what they were doing when it was met with severe backlash and reinvent themselves. as a result they are the only part of Microsoft that is continually improving.
>continually improving
>still no gyro
>still a subscription service
>still a cucksole despite using PC hardware, need to pay to use PC features
>added a shit game rental service long after streaming services proved to be bait-and-switch schemes
>still ultimately going to remove used game sales, one of the things that they got backlash for
>Why has it never worked?
Literally was with the 360. It managed to sell 1.5 million there. While that's nothing compared to PS/Nintendo, had they kept going with what they built so far, Xbox could have at least been a niche hardcore device in Japan as the 360 was
But Mattrick turned Japan into a "tier 2" country and did irreversible damage. Even with their recent attempts (which is literally just trying to stop 3rd parties from skipping them) they will never get close to 1m again
Yea this. the 360 was the console to get for weeb games on release. All the JRPG, shmups and whatnot were on it. The PS3 had no games and the wii had 2 games.
All they had to do was to keep going
It helped the 360 that Sony was being dicks about releasing Shmups and VNs on PS3 because they weren't "next gen" enough.
It also helped that PC gaming was irrelevant at the time, almost no Jap games were coming to PC
Another thing was that Xbox had a proper Xbox Japan team back then, and as far as I can tell MS only started trying to rebuild it as recently as a few months ago
It will be impossible for them to ever recover
Because he stinks of butter
Nobody outside of America buys American products. iphone users get nothing but ridicule in Europe.