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With the closure of Tango Gameworks, Xbox sends an accidental message: it is not a platform for fans of Japanese games (www.vg247.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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More than anything, though, it’s a gut punch because it sends a message. The wrong message, really. Xbox had one major studio in Japan - no more. Xbox is making deals with third parties and independent creators, yes - it’s got something in the pipes with Hideo Kojima, for instance - but like I said, the first party is your north star. It’s your best foot forward. The message becomes this: Japanese games are not a priority for us.

No amount of Spencer pow-wowing on the Final Fantasy fanfest stage with the Square Enix CEOchanges that. No amount of co-marketing money thrown at Persona or Yakuza to get Xbox versions and Xbox logos on the trailers can undo that message. Publishing a Kojima game might help a bit - but not as much as having a beloved Japanese studio in your actual stable. In the end, Kojima is just a gun for hire - whatever he makes for Xbox will be compared to Death Strandingand his big new spy franchise at Sony.

And furthermore, if you were a Japanese publisher or developer approached for acquisition, how would you rate the odds of survival for your business based on the evidence before you? Would government regulators trust that Microsoft would be a safe pair of hands for Japanese brands, big or small? In 2019, the year before the Bethesda deal, Xbox mulled over a purchase of Square Enix, not for the first time in its history. How much of Square Enix would remain now had the company pursued that takeover?

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago

japans fully behind pc nowadays. there's a reason why japanese devs of various sizes for the first time in the past few years have made pc ports of their games. Bandai, whose never had games like taiko no tatsujim, nor tekken on pc, and virtually the entire gundam franchise, puts most of the titles on pc. Capcom who never put monster hunter on pc till world, and always made pc a second thought, has put all of their titles. on pc now. Sega puts some of its largest IPs like Phantasy Star online on pc.

the same trend can also be seen in reverse, where a lot of wetern developers are having japanese language support in their games, one of the most popular in japan, being apex legends.

japan not being into pcs is very outdated information nowadays.