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....woo?
i likesdeded the game too
Maybe the 360 needs more games where you cook and use an abacus and play with dogs.
This is your hero!
Well it's good to see that they can put out a game that causes some interest over in the land of the rising sun.
It deserves all the attention it can get. The Xbox Live demo showed a lot of potential.
The combat in this game is really fun,well from the little time I spent with the demo
Japan produced 360 games is a win situation for all. It was an enormously serious failing of the first xbox to me.
This won't help MS break the market much though for the simple fact that x = no in japan. You wouldn't want a console called the nobox, would you? Of course not, it's depressing. Only emo kids would want them. You're not an emo kid, are you? You sicken me...
I thought X meant "don't buy me." guess I was wrong. The japanese don't buy apple stuff much either from what I hear, so don't feel bad microsoft. You actually can do something just as trendy as apple, fail in Japan.
Also, maybe they should just make games with really bad graphics cuz this looks like ps2 or wii, and they love that wii.
There was no need to bash the wii in this article's comments, derail.
I DO WANT
Microsoft won't shed a tear over losing the Japan market because they don't seem to care, a practice I find rather stupid. Apparently they failed to promote Gears of War half as well as they could have over there, and it could've made it big. It's a mixture of Japan's culture being such that they don't go for foreign products so much, and Microsoft taking a "fuck 'em" attitude. Both mindsets are pretty self defeating.
Is this game out or coming out in the U.S.???? And is that demo downloadable in the U.S. Region?
I'm not sure what you mean Jim, I think Microsoft knows their Japanese audience. Shooters do not sell in Japan, and it seems pretty unlikely that Gears would break that mold. Their advertising dollars are much better spent promoting games like Eternal Sonata or Blue Dragon.
I'm not saying they're not messing up in Japan, but I don't think continuing to pump shooters at the eastern makret is the answer.
They need to make a bukkake game.
That'll sell those x360s.
Microsoft does care about Japan, its just that most of the games that came out previously like mr.wonderful said are not what the japanese usually play.
And please... Japanese people do not only play those crazy games that are associated with Japan..
Actually the 5 people out there that own a 360 love GoW believe it or not.
I've a magazine interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi where he says that Gears could have been the number one best seller in Japan, if only Microsoft had let more gamers know it was there, but the marketing was awful, hence why it shold 23,000 copies and not the amount it truly deserved.
Maybe it's just his theory that Gears would have done well, but he loved the game and nobody as Microsoft even showed it to him. Perhaps a case of Microsoft thinking too much that they know their market.
*33,000
Man, americans have RPG fans, they need to start getting off of just playing Final Fantasy only and expand into the, what I feel, are better games.
this game looks fucktastic
isn't this game no longer a 360 exclusive, and is headed to the ps3? there was an ESRB rating for it on ps3. so how the hell is it gonna help 360 sales at all? people in japan will just buy it on ps3.
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