Why doesn't the xbox sell in Japan?

Why doesn't the xbox sell in Japan?

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its 34,800 dollars bro. i could buy a house with that.

The japanese do not have brand loyalty like we do in the west

shitty western machine

why would you buy a console without japanese games

>hardly has any Japanese games
>most of the Western games are shit
>too big to carry around
>not big enough to replace a kotatsu

because japan buy their own shit unlike westerners who are obsessed with other peoples cultures

>being this stupid
Stop

>>not big enough to replace a kotatsu

bullshit. it's just that the xbox has nothing japs are interested in

>not big enough to replace a kotatsu
heh

Less people, games made over there still sell better over in the west better
Microsoft being the geniuses in business as they are realize its not a whole lot of money they're losing

Because they are racist and refuse to buy anything that isn't made by their own kind.

because japanese """men""" are pussies and dont like games that were made for men. they would rather play their gay weebshit

It barely sells in EU too. USA is the only place where it sells.

>playing games with lots of big boobed girls is gay
>but my game about big buff men is not
k

Faggits

The Xbox is a filthy gaijin machine

>western operating systems saturate the japanese market
Interesting.

So why is Xbox so popular in America?

No anime games on it. Also this

A good advertisement campaign.

Exactly. They play weebshit and we play shooters.

They like to play games.

Japan doesn't have that many black people.

microsoft too retarded to market this thing and it does not have the games worth playing for them.

They aren't retarded?

but doesn't the PS brand sell well there?

xbox is hueg

The 360 was more popular because it handled multiplat games better, and it was cheaper. The only reason any Xbones sold was fanboyism.

It's to do with perceived quality, as well as what's available to them.

Sony - Japanese company, most Japs will own a Praystayshon, so the devs there make more games for it than other consoles.
Microsoft - Xbox is American and is generally seen to be a weaker console because it doesn't have the GLORIOUS NIPPON PLASTIC MOLDED 1000 TIMES.

Neither the XBox, nor the 360 sold well. XB1 is likely a failed venture too for cornering the market.

The only game I ever saw Japs play on the 360 was Ace Combat Assault Horizon.

Then how come they stopped using NEC PCs once Wintel became mainstream?

mostly unreleated but how in the fuck do they comprehend that goofy typing system. i don't understand how they take the six thousand letter picture alphabet of scribbles and make it work on a keyboard. fuck, i can't imagine how they texted back when you had to use the keypad.

no gaemu

They use IMEs to convert kana inputs into kanji.

When I was there, many of them would use Romaji phonetics or like a really advanced predictive text with multi scroll for kanji

>He dones't know that Gears is actually big in Japan
Even the creator of Senran Kagura was hyped for Gears 4

Blacks love Xbox. Deal with it.

You type the characters and they get converted into the kanji they represent

this sounds terribly bothersome. it's like being forced to use intellisense at all times while switching between like 3 different languages.

実は易しいです。

i suppose. i'll never know.

It's their own fault really. Even English had to kick useless shit out of the alphabet such as þ.

That's pronounced 'thorn', by the way. It was used where you'd see a 'th' nowadays.

Because it's made by dirty roundeyes. Why don't American cars sell anywhere else?

私は高価なレストランにあなたの母親を連れて行った後、再び彼女に電話したことはありません。

Because the PS4 or PC has all the weird Japanese games on them while Xbox only has popular Japanese games that all platforms have.

Elevens don't care about graphics, console wars or anything westerners take into consideration when they buy a console.
They choose Playstation and PC because Japanese devs release all their dating sims and porn games there.

It's gay. All the games on there are bara games.

Where's that manga that says "THIS GUN" and "Also every female is a horse" when you need it

Also western games are double the cost of domestic games, japs have to pay for localization as DLC.

Thorn and Eth aren't useless, they just couldn't be arsed to make non-latin characters for early printing presses.
This is also why we say "ye olde" instead of "the olde", some early printers used the y character as a thorn.

>実は易しいです
僕はセックス大好き
いつもセックス、毎日やりたいセックス

Well, it's called thorn, it's pronounced th.

theres no way people on Sup Forums are this stupid

>>not big enough to replace a kotatsu
fucker, got me good

That's very true, well spotted. Things like Ye Olde Shoppe and such were just THE Olde Shoppe.

It still survives in Iceland, though

are you telling me niggers didn't pronounce this shit as "ye" and i've lived a lie my entire life?

Apologies, got that bit backwards.

Yeah you people have fucking idea what you're talking about. I live in Japan so let me tell you.

Nintendo and Sony have great japanese support. As in the repairs/games part.

Xbox came into the Japanese market and launched their console yet failed on localization. They didn't get any good exclusives and Xbox 1 was mostly a Halo / Racing games console. Games Japanese people didn't play. I mean PS2 and GC blew away the Xbox 1 library in japan by a mile.

Anyways fast forward to Xbox 360. It launches in Japan but doesn't sell microsoft gets smart secures nice deals with interesting studios to basically make the Xbox 360 into the ultimate otaku console.

Idolmaster, tons of SHMUPs, Senko no Ronde, Entaku no Seito, Monster Hunter Frontier Online, Absolute Blazing Infinity, Tengai Makyou Zaira, Ken no Machi no Ihoujin - Shiro No Okyuu, Super Robot Wars XO enhanced edditon...

Any many others. And this did work for a while. Most otaku especially the Idolmaster ones all owned Xboxes.

Game stores section during this era were pretty decent.

Today if you visit Softmap or Yodobashi Camera or Bic Camera or Japada Denki or Edion or tons of other stores. Hell if you visit a Book off or Hard off or Mandrake you'll find very little if any Xbox One games unlike their X360 campaign Xbox One didn't do shit to lure in Japanese consumers hell Xbox One didn't do anything IN GENERAL to lure in any consumers around the world.

So thats why it continues to fail and people develop games for the PS4.

the numbers don't lie, user :^)

That's exactly it. As said, they'd just replace þ with y for printing presses at times and it stuck.

because japs have a brain apparently.

Since when is india part of the west?

Xbox has nothing to offer.

不潔なガイジン

its Sup Forums, mental retardation is a requirement.

The big reasons I've heard are:

-Too big
-Too full of shooters, which Japan has never really cared for
-Made by an American company

and you don't

Praystayshonに戻って、私が歯科用のフロスで目隠しする前に行ってください。

because gooks and chinks support their home brands,
unlike the retarded cucks elsewhere

>its
case in point.

Xbox has zero games. Don't let the Indian shills say otherwise.

it does what nintendon't.... bad games

XD I know what a koatsusesu is, le gentlemanly cultured humour

>Linux is BELOW the "other" category
The absolute state of Linux

ホント気持ち悪いなこいつら

Basically the only selling point they made for the original Xbox was that it's the SUPERIOR AMERICAN console, but xenophobic japs didn't give a fuck about that and it didn't actually have enough jap friendly games to make it worth owning (it barely even had a library in the the west to being with)

MS learned from that mistake and managed to carve out a decent niche for the 360 by not having retarded branding and getting some JRPGs and shit made for it. But they went full retard again with the xboner.

Basically because Microsoft is too American.

usgamer.net/articles/why-xbox-failed-in-japan

The Resident Evil 4 bit is pretty funny

No games, no audience, no long lasting appeal. Pretty simple shit. Microsoft is worth less than a grain of rice in Japan.

I think you just get used to it.

My wife is Japanese and when I see her typing on the PC its just madness for me.I literally ask her sometimes "how the fuck you do this?"

The 360 ended up with quite a few niche Japan-only exclusives, actually. Mostly shmups IIRC.

Honestly in Europe too outside of the UK.

It's an American console. Only Americans are dumb enough to buy their own products.

This

A console built for us Americans.

...

it's a glorified cable box for americans