YOU, and the editor of this article, are wrong.

It is not on Microsoft, and never was, the lack of developer interest for the XBOX, and unless you can tell me of a mainstream developer that Microsoft saiid “not interested” to, you will continue to be wrong. And the console was too big. You do not know your history on this matter.

Also, like ALL Western made consoles, they are going to have Western targeted games. Asking Microsoft to be more supportive in Japan is like asking the NFL to build more football stadiums in Europe… why should the NFL do that???

Microsoft did everything short of paying off developers for support.

Either way, it doesn’t matter now. As we saw with the 360, Microsoft doesn’t need Japan to sell consoles – and that’s fine by me!

Maybe now that they have THE most powerful console on the planet, there will be more Japanese developer support… but i wouldn’t hold my breath on that if I were you.

Now that’s what I call damage control.

Cry at MS for not delivering the games you want, Xgimp.

sure, the problem is that those 30+ million are either not interested in playing japanese game or already own alternative console.
I can hardly imagine anyone who’s interested in playing japanese titles own a console no other than xbox in a first place.

Japan never gave up … they were never in. Much like the Japanese don’t buy American cars.

The population of the U.S. is over 330 million. Even if the game is niche, there’s 30+ million XB1s our there (and also Windows PC). Why not at least port the games with the best chance of selling? MS should just fund some promising projects over there, and publish on PC and XBOX.

Lip service. Like the kind Sony had when they promised no DRM. Low and behold gran turismo is loaded with DRM

It’s simple. Xbox isn’t a selling platform in Japan. That gives devs little reason to make any game for xbox. Considering anyone who would play any japanese titles would already own PS and steam covers more broad range of users, making games on xbox is pretty much waste of time and resources for them.

If MS really wanted the devs to develop any game for Xbox, they would’ve spent more money on exclusive games to hold onto japanese users which they didn’t and now it’s too late.

You are getting this totally wrong. It’s not the size of the console or controller. It was the game lol. Most of Xbox games have been filled with western style genres that wern’t very attractive to Japanese audiences.

On top of that, they did have a few Japanese exclusive titles in 360 era but later the game turned out to be a timed exclusive and the game started to come out on PS3 as well which were deemed as a back stabbing to those who purchased xbox solely for the game.
MS did try but with only a half a$$ effort that made people turn back on them.

Imagine PS only had Japanese games mostly and Sony wonders why PS didn’t sell well in the western as much as it did in Japan. lol