Your analogy is stupid, moldy.

Xbox does bad in Japan, Xbox gets few Japanese games. Fans of Japanese games go elsewhere to play said Japanese games.

Really simple. But maybe that makes no sense to you, either.

@Spotie
"Xbox does bad in Japan, Xbox gets few Japanese games. Fans of Japanese games go elsewhere to play said Japanese games.

Really simple. But maybe that makes no sense to you, either."

so simple yet you ignore what i actually said.

'what big games is microsoft missing out that both nintendo and sony are capitalizing on by not selling well in various parts of the world aside from some japanese games aimed at japanese gamers?'

so once again i ask what the big deal is regarding worldwide sales if people are not interested in games aimed at an entirely different demographic? judging by sales in north america on these ps4 games i'd say not very much.

the xbox one is still getting games like metal gear solid, unlike the wii u, and other major japanese published games. unless sony has exclusive deals in place (such as ffvii, shenmue 3 and street fighter 5).

so tell me again what games aimed at the north american market is being ignored on the xbox one due to lack of worldwide sales?

It's not "aimed at the North American market," you... very narrow-minded person.

It's "aimed at gamers." You make Japanese games, and then you want them to sell everywhere. You make a German game, and you want it to sell everywhere. You make a tiny little indie, and it could be the next Minecraft.

All that works best when you can get to as many markets as possible.

And none of it is cheap.

Who the hell is gonna spend money and resources developing for a console that won't reach as many as possible? Why would I, as a developer from anywhere else in the world, prefer to put my game where it's going to have a limited audience from the start?

Judging by sales? Sales of what? Which game? And which metric are you applying? Are you saying because these smaller games don't see the sales of GTA or Call of Duty that, "judging by sales," these smaller games didn't do well enough by their developers?

Your whole view on this is insanely myopic. Are you incapable of understanding that, with how global gaming has become, performance in EVERY market matters.

Please, enough with the ignorance. It's hard to even address you without insults at this point, and I'm already being marked for unfathomable reasons. If this nonsense is the best retort you can do... just keep it to yourself next time.

Spotie,
"Please, enough with the ignorance. It's hard to even address you without insults at this point, and I'm already being marked for unfathomable reasons. If this nonsense is the best retort you can do... just keep it to yourself next time."

we are not talking about serious issues here, we are talking about videogames so try and keep your emotions at bay. that $400 plastic box is not as important as you make it out to be.

the fact is those games you mention are niche games outside of japan. what you fail to understand time and again is the xbox one is not missing out on key titles like metal gear solid, devil may cry, tekken and so on. those used to be associated with the playstation brand. they are no longer. that is because much like nintendo made games they are aimed at the general public and consoles for the most part are mainstream products. which means most people don't care about worldwide sales unless it somehow impacts them. japan is no longer the powerhouse it once was as far as game support goes for consoles. event the people there don't seem to care much about console gaming.

How important do I make that plastic box out to be, moldy? Sounds like a cop-out to me.

Here's the bottom line: your reasoning is stupid. Literally EVERYONE core to the industry cares about how well these consoles and games do everywhere in the world. Microsoft isn't just shrugging off their poor sales in Asia; they wish those sales were better. Obviously, every developer and publisher wishes the same, because that means their games reach a larger audience. Consumers like you and me care- even if you say you don't- because those sales DO affect games we see on a given console.

You keep trying to narrow things down to "key" or "big" franchises, which is moronic as well. It doesn't matter how big the franchise is. After all, none of them started out that way. Name me ONE that was a multi-million unit seller before it got big... yeah, you can't, because that's not even possible.

Who cares if it's not Final Fantasy or DMC? Who gives a damn if it's mainstream or not?

Star Ocean bombed on Xbox, so did Tales; these aren't small franchises, even if not the size of FF. But you probably won't see them on Xbox again.

Your attitude is no different than the "PlayStation has no games because they don't have 4+ AAA exclusives launching this holiday" mentality that's overrun this site. Especially as the PC gamer you claim yourself to be, since when is it okay for gamers to disregard games based on their budget, or whether or not they're mainstream?

More importantly, did it ever occur to you- and it should have, given how frequently we PS fans say it- that Sony's success in gaming is PRECISELY because they'll support so many smaller budget, niche games? Did you stop to think that those things are exactly why the PS4 has doubled up on its nearest competitor in sales?

Or were you too busy looking for ways to defend Microsoft to even think about it?

The next Xbox issaid to have 36 GB of memory so the price short from ram should not be as apocalyptic as a 64 GB kit. With the PS6 coming in with 30 GB, the RAM should not be what makes the Xbox cost so much more. Of course without Microsoft subsidizing the console the actual MSRPs may diverge wildly.

32GB of DDR5 still costs in the neighborhood of $250-300 for the super cheap stuff, $450 for the name brand. That's what entire consoles used to cost. That eats up a huge chunk of the budget that was supposed to be paying for the CPU and GPU, which means that the cost of this system will be driven farther north than previously anticipated, and it was already expected to be above $1k. Releasing a console in the middle of an industry-wide RAM shortage is stupid. Even GPU makers are scaling back production because of it, and focusing their remaining stock and production towards selling to datacenters. Some memory manufacturers have dropped consumer products entirely and now only make chips for datacenters. Nvidia is scaling back its consumer GPUs, no longer offering the super series of some GPUs, for instance.

For MS to pull the trigger now means releasing at a very risky price point against a PS5 that is simply on fire, even outselling the Switch 2 in many cases. It's coming at a time where the Xbox brand is at its weakest ever, and consumer confidence in the brand is at absolute rock bottom. Nobody wants to drop $1500 on an Xbox when they can play the same games on their PS5 Pro for half the price already, or even cheaper if using a base PS5. Only a select few enthusiasts will bother to fork out that kind of money... by the time this product reaches a price point where it can have mass-market appeal, the PS6 will be dropping... but by that time, RAM prices will be dropping, so PS6 will now be able to, assuming it does delay until 2029, invest more into upgrading its architecture over the previously released spec, invest in more RAM than the new Xbox will have, a better CPU & GPU, etc.

As for nobody saying PS6 will launch in 2029, nobody said it would come sooner either, not officially, at least. As of now all we have to go by are rumors based on internal information that could easily change at a moment's notice. Even the design of the chip itself could change as it has not yet entered into production. They could easily opt to include a few more CUs, more RAM, more CPU cores, etc. between now and when it does officially enter production. So, MS could drop a new Xbox now, but it wouldn't be wise, at all, for them to do so if they plan on even holding a candle agains the juggernaut that will be PS6. PS5 will most likely mop the floor with it due to its price point alone.

And that's assuming MS even gives the green light to start manufacturing the console to begin with. We'll see in the coming months if production even happens. Microsoft's shareholders damn sure aren't going to be willing to subsidize anything at all after they just dumped $100b into buying game publishers, expecting to see a ROI, and not seeing it anywhere near as fast as they'd hoped, which is why we're now playing Xbox games on PS5.

As for MS sitting on RAM, they are sitting on some, but Xbox is sitting on none. Microsoft knows good and well they will make far more money putting that RAM into datacenters than they ever would putting it into a console that is already at a huge disadvantage before it even launches, and has little hope of generating a lot of sales.