@BlueOcean Yes, I agree. Phil's been very explicit about getting more Japanese developers on board as a goal. And to me it was a big message when Squeenix and Capcom have been very very visibly present, if not prioritizing, XBox's shows over Sony's recently. And I imagine that's a big, big message to a big portion of Japanese developers. Conversely if EA started prioritizing Nintendo shows over the others, other Western developers would take notice and start rethinking on Nintendo support. Getting the beta for PSO2 was no small message.
Honestly no company is courting Japanese gamers right now except Nintendo. It's a shrinking market, and no company is too interested in focusing much money or focus onto a shrinking market. Neither MS nor Sony. Nintendo does, because they're a virtual monopoly there for what market there is.
And regarding Falcom, I have no idea what they're thinking. They're not a big enough studio to be able to get anything meaningful out of "next gen" systems, and their main market which was always domestic PSP/Vita players is all on Nintendo now. I think a lot of those small Japanese niche developers are seeing domestic numbers drop and think salvation is targeting a huge Western audience via Playstation's popularity without fully realizing current Playstation's audience is the "dudebro" audience and doesn't have much preference to those niche games anymore....which is all on Nintendo, worldwide. I think those studios will realize that after PS5/XSEX launches, though, and Nintendo will probably actively court them more.
@BlueOcean@NEStalgia Switch + xCloud would probably be Japan's perfect combo if the last few 3rd parties moved away from Sony exclusivity like if Atlus put main series Persona on the Switch.
@NEStalgia There are things that Microsoft has done this generation that are truly remarkable: free backwards compatibility, Xbox One Elite controller, bring back (main) Japanese developers, create dedicated and good-priced powerful gaming hardware, offer a choice of subscription or purchase, lots of good digital deals, set up the 15 Xbox Game Studios... Like you said, competition has stimulated all this but Phil's personality has much to do with it in my opinion. Series X seems like a continuation of Xbox One X and xCloud a continuation of Play Anywhere. I guess that Sony will focus on cinematic single-player games and they will try hard to make many PS4 users upgrade as soon as possible before they realise what's right or wrong about PS5... Actually, they said they're going to try that. I wonder how this is going to work for them. Is the power of a digital PS4 library enough for those that jumped from Xbox 360 to PS4? Will those people jump back to Series X or to Windows, perhaps?
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"There are things that Microsoft has done this generation that are truly remarkable: free backwards compatibility"
Nonsense.
Their BC is just Partial BC which NOT every OG Xbox and Xbox 360 games can be played on Xbox One.
Xbox One cannot play DDR ultramix 1-4 from OG Xbox, DDR universe 1-3 from Xbox 360, Dance Evolution and Kinect games from Xbox 360.
If Xbox BC cannot even play those games, i'm sorry but their BC is suck.
I would rather get a machine that can play previous gen games by disc emulating like PS2 / Wii / Wii U without licence update that occured on Xbox machines in order to play previous gen games.
@Anti-Matter What are you doing here? You always say that Xbox is not for you and all your comments are negative so I'm genuinely curious why you keep posting the same things over and over again on the only Xbox thread. We need resident shrink @Eel here again to find out...
@Anti-Matter As has been explained before, that would require multiple consoles being within a single box, all connected to one disc drive with all the ports neccessary for connecting the controllers. GCN to Wii to WiiU was built on the same foundations of technology, as was PS1 to PS2. Such direct emulation will never happen because technology has moved on, consoles running on different hardware to previous generations with little reason to include that technology. PS2 tech was included in the early PS3s and quickly dropped, purely because it cost to continue to develop that older technology.
You can wish it, but it sure won't happen any time soon, and not in an offical capacity.
@Octane I agree with you, they're getting ahead which kind of makes sense when you consider that Switch is newer and is a hybrid/handheld console and Japanese love their mobile devices.
Oh great here come the new consoles and everybody will be saying Nintendo is back in the stone age Again! People will be begging them to upgrade and saying the switch is yesterdays news.
How much you wanna bet PS5 and the new Xbox will be some kinda console hybrid thingy?
@Zeldafan79 PS5 will be a new generation console but I don't think that it's going to be as successful as PS4. Xbox Series X will be a new generation console but walking along other Xbox consoles, xCloud and Windows. Switch is going to be the only (last-gen) handheld console of the next generation so it will compete against smartphones and xCloud.
@Zeldafan79 We already know what the next Xbox looks like and it's pretty much a PC tower, really doubt Sony would go the hybrid route given how they abandoned the Vita almost immediately. Nintendo still will have to be careful though, Switch could do with some exciting announcements sometime around when Sony fully reveals the PS5 so the discussions end up being the Switch lineup instead of power comparisons.
Well surely by now with how graphics are becoming more or less the same on every platform it's about time we start judging these systems by their content. Not by how many horses are under the hood. If you're one of those graphics nuts or want the most powerful system that's what PC's are for. Let's just hope Nintendo has something of their own to suprise us with!
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I just realised that Bayonetta (Xbox 360) is not available for purchase on Xbox One. I know that there is a Bayonetta & Vanquish (Xbox One) bundle but I wasn't expecting the game to disappear from the store. I started playing it when it was on Game Pass (it looks and plays great on Xbox One X) and I wanted to buy it so I can continue with my save file because it's no longer on Game Pass.
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