Official Xbox 360 Thread

[Schlep]

oh, gotcha.

[g0zen]

Tomorrow, I enter the fold.

[Schlep]

In order to attract more Japanese gamers, Microsoft on Friday unveiled a new game controller that is smaller and has button configurations that differ from the U.S. model.
But Japanese gamers are not easily satisfied with the move.

"I heard that Xbox changed the game controller, but I think the machine itself seems too big and bulky for my room and I don't know about the design," said Eisuke Shindo, a 19-year-old student at the Tokyo Game show site. "I would spend maximum 29,800 yen ($240) for Xbox only if it comes with good titles."

Tomoaki Kawasaki, a game-sector analyst from Cosmo Securities, said earlier in the week, "Japanese like home-grown games and small electronic devices, so I think a bulky Xbox will have a hard time in Japan at first."

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Stor...7D&siteid=mktw

[Joust Williams]

"I heard the Xbox changed the game controller, but I'm a huge douchebag and have shitty taste in games, desu ne," said Eisuke Shindo, a 19 year old student at the TGS site. "I would spend maximum 240 dollars for Xbox only if Sony buys the company and puts it under their branding."

Tomoaki Kawasaki, a game-sector analyst from Cosmo Securities, said earlier in the week, "Japanese are a xenophobic culture. They haven't gotten over their sound beating in World War 2, so I think American electronics will have a hard time here forever. They'd rather quit gaming than buy an Xbox."

[Nash]

Oh man, I thought this was a new story and that there was actually a new smaller 360 controller.

[Tommy Tallarico]

Oh man, I thought this was a new story and that there was actually a new smaller 360 controller.

Who could possibly need a smaller 360 controller?

[Nash]

Who could possibly need a smaller 360 controller?

The Japanese!

[ElCapichan]

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Stor...7D&siteid=mktw

yeah, cause the PS3 is going to be so much smaller. Man, sometimes I forget how stupid some Japanese can be, and then they open their mouthes.

[mollipen]

If either of those games came out on PS2, they'd go apeshit over it and lap it up like the pathetic taste-having people they are.

Because Joust Williams is the expert on the Japanese consumer.

Lost Odyssey? I'm willing to be it would be LESS of a big deal on the PS2. On that system, it'd be just another RPG. On the 360, it's "one of the few Japanese RPG that are supposed to save the console."

Blue Dragon has the chance to follow in the footsteps of Chrono Trigger, but are you really expecting Japanese consumers to purchase a 360 just for that game?

The PS3 has no games for launch over there that people "care about" yet we know it'll sell like mad.

Do we? First of all, the PS3 is going to sell all 100,000 units because, well, there are only 100,000 units. You could release almost anything and sell that many units at launch, thanks to early adopters. Past that, though, at this point I'm not confident at all that the PS3 has assured success in Japan. If the Wii can do what the DS has done, and that's quite possible, the PS3 could find itself in a situation very much like the PSP vs. DS. Now, of course I'm not saying that that is GOING to happen, but the success of the PS3 is not assured like the success of the PS2 was.

I wish people would stop defending their bullshit as if it gives them bonus F-chan points or something. They don't want American electronics. End of.

Do I need to sit here and list off all of the American electronics that Japanese people love? This "Japanese people hate American consoles" is BS, and usually said by people who don't know s**t about Japan and have never stepped foot there. I don't get why this is so hard to understand - for Japanese consumers, the Xbox 360, like the Xbox before it, has crap Japanese support, and almost nothing that is suited to the tastes of people over there.

Aren't you one of the people who don't like the DS? Because it has a lot of F-chan games on it and not enough manly Western-style games? Well, buy it anyhow, because it doesn't matter what you like if I say it's good. That's the exact same thing people are telling Japanese consumers about the 360.

[Dyne]

Do I need to sit here and list off all of the American electronics that Japanese people love?

please do.