Why didn't Japan like Xbox?
They did though.
>>12555979Same reason everyone but America didn't care about it, no worthy exclusives
Tiny handsShort cockBig ego
>>12555979U pray wong time? We have haro 2
>>12555979Somebody liked the first Xbox?
>>12555979Nintendo unironically operates like mafia in Japan.
>>12556005At least nobody from Nintendo was on the list...
>>12556005Proof?
>>12555979hambaga, ekkusubokkusu
>>12555996
>>12556014They made it illegal to rent video games in Japan during the 1980s. They didn't want blockbusters for NES cartridges in Japan
>>12555979Not enough JP appeal. It got Tecmo and Sega games, but that just couldn't cut the mustard. They also hated the design.
>>12556073They appealed to me
we don't need anymore underage dipshit "Why" threads
>>12555983>>12556005Why do you lie?>>12555996>>12556031The Xbox booth babes were so fucking ugly, I genuinely feel grossed out looking at them. Whoever was in charge of hiring them should be shot.
>>12555979Why did anyone like Xbox should be the questionPeak soulless trash carried out by plundering industry secrets and would-be DreamCast games (and GameCube games in the case of Rare), and then for the latter half of the Xbox 1 lifecycle it was clueless american executives throwing buckets of money with zero creative vision and constantly sabotaging projects later in the development cycle, and even that was still their peakThey had Level-5 develop a JRPG, insist on online capabilities, knowing the service would be scrapped half a year later.Blinx (pic related) had very different graphics during development but got the American Box Art treatment but ingame, that was the Microsoft touchFor the Xbox 360 it was throwing money to secure temporary JRPG exclusives and even then they did a rugpull and stopped funding around 2009 (cancelled Cry On is one casualty), then accepting visual novels and indie/low budget games rejected by Sony, which Sony then stopped (and overcompensated for during Vita) while Xbox did a rugpull around 2011. Then they heavily pushed for Kinect and then rugpulled developers (the Yu Gi Oh Kinect exclusive that ended up only showcased on tradeshows), then their last few Japan exclusives were rugpulled as well (Crimson Dragon X360 was cancelled AFTER release with 3 hours because MS wanted a Xbox One launch title, so the game went unreleased for two years and released in a worse state + Scalesbound + Hi-Fi Rush)
>>12555979Microsoft REALLY underestimated the importance of JRPGs over there.
Keep in mind the Xbox was codenamed "The DirectXBox", for some context.>The project was codenamed the Manhattan Project, like the World War II project of the same name, and the idea was to displace the Japanese-developed video game consoles with personal computers running Microsoft's operating system. It had initially used the radiation symbol as its logo but Microsoft asked the team to change the logo.Gee, I wonder why...
>>12556404You lost nintentranny.
>>12556424>Blinx (pic related) had very different graphics during development but got the American Box Art treatment but ingame, that was the Microsoft touchand comparison pics?>>12556756Absolutely based
>>12556008who do you think hired the guy that ran down yokoi?
>>12556918replied to the wrong post, meant to reply to >>12556014
>>12555979Majority of its games being the definition of slop.Slop shovelware console.
>>12557030>Majority of its games being the definition of slop.>Slop shovelware console.Why are you talking about the PS2 in an Xbox thread?
>>12557039https://web.archive.org/web/20060629170753/www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2401&Itemid=2That's the Japanese taste for video games.They don't care about your latest dudebro and cinematic western crap
>>12557050>calling anything slop then posting shitty cookie cutter jarpigs
Xbox has always been the third wheel, Sony and Nintendo are full of classics in contrast
>>12556424You seem upset
>>12557056You don't understand, do you?The japanese have a different taste in video games. Playing Halo, eating pizza/doritos and drinking MTNdew while calling each other a fag isn't their way of gaming.In their minds, everything in that image is considered "gaijin slop"
>>12555979no Final Fantasy. if FF11 had been an Xbox exclusive it would've done for them in Japan what Halo did for Xbox in the West.
>>12555979Does the OG Xbox have a niche following in japan, like the Saturn or PC-Engine in the west?
>>12555979if you dont care about halo theres nothing else good about the console
>>12557458>Crimson Skies>Fable>Dead or Alive>JSRF>Mech Assault>Panzer Dragoon Orta>Steel Battalionand where the Xbox really shined was multiplats, which almost universally were better on Xbox.
>>12555979The look and feel of the console was all wrong.If Microsoft had marketed it as a spiritual successor to the MSX it would have capitalized on a lot more appeal. It should -have come with a keyboard and mouse-been a gray or white color-not have been called "Xbox" but something with more identity.-not used the nuclear green color-had a more "hi-fi" look and feel
>>12557653hmmm
>>12556424Fella I'm forever mad about True Fantasy Live Online too but it's still a great console.
>>12557653Perhaps they could have called it the MSXBox
>>12557050>They don't care about your latest dudebro and cinematic western crapMakes perfect sense that you seethe at a truly chad console as an effeminate weeb faggot.
>>12555979They like it enough, but it was Microsoft's fault for being a bit off-putting with their project names for the system that was anti-Japanese, like Project Midway for the system as a "decisive victory against the Japanese" or the S-controller project name of Akebono Taro as in "American that beats the Japanese at their own game". Maybe without that adversarial approach the overall impression may be better. A system named some slur-station would be pretty offensive and not done well in the US so imagine that how it was in Japan.
Because it's made by filthy gaijin waitu piggu who needs to GO HOME
>>12558045Classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACGSiN3ZkI
>>12558045Nope more like a inferior 2 year Korean box with all the different insideparts
>>12555979the japanese people have a lot of flaws, but they are also extremely xenophobic
>>12557653>>12557801The Xbox could've shipped with a native version of MS Office and marketed as a work and play machine for the mature Japanese yuppie market.
>>12555979Because they screwed over Japanese devs again and again since day 1 in addition to not understanding what Japanese people liked in their games. No shit that their reputation would falter with the Nips and become an irrelevant third wheel to Sony and Nintendo. That's basically the story of Xbox: thinking they can brute force their way to the top by dishing out more and more money.>>12556756Kinda ironic since Japan is still doing fine and most of American gaming is moribund or near moribund, especially he Xbox brand.>>12557064NTA but yeah. Microsoft has been a net negative for gaming ever since they entered the market. It's a good thing they've lost relevance since the 360 days probably be shuttered, further diminishing their minuscule hold on the gaming market. Other than Xinput standardizing controllers and Direct X (before 12), they haven't done one good thing for gaming and infact held it back drastically.
