kidhero99 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Fuck this ten pound piece of shit is going to be hogging self space in these stores for years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamaros_ Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 As you can see at my signature, i'm not a fanboy, and i own all consoles. But i don't know why Microsoft even try this lol, i mean, Japan is 100% Sony and Nintendo, europe too. The actual lining up 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooneJusticius Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 2 photos with no indication of when during the day they were taken doesn't really tell anyone anything. Also, given Xbox has never had much of a market at all in Japan I can't really say that any post or news story, here or otherwise, saying the premier wasn't great for Xbox is actually worthy of having said post or news story. It'd be like me creating a post saying water is wet and expecting it to be news. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidhero99 Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 More at the link with information http://kotaku.com/japans-xbox-one-launch-as-sad-as-youd-expect-1630411606 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Suicide_Tortuga Posted September 4, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 4, 2014 One can say there in "Uncharted" territory. Zing!!! Goodnight everyone I'll be here same time tomorrow. 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 A lot of the pictures from that article said they were taken at 0100 or 0200. I was at the midnight launch of the PlayStation 4 and there was quite the crowd there, however if you took a picture 2 hours after they started selling the things I bet you'd be taking a picture of an empty parking lot too. Still, Japan has never been Microsoft's territory and I don't think anyone expected that to change with the 8th generation of consoles either. If I'm not mistaken even the PS4 isn't selling too terribly well over there either. Parker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEMON Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Those ninjas sure do love Xbone lol MS would have been better off just not releasing it there, there is also a photoshop picture of the Forza crowd at the Japan launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royalredpanda Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 (edited) Those pictures are sad and make me feel bad for MS, but unless they start having more games that target the Eastern audience it won't change much. Wonder if the guy was nervous being surronded by press when he was the first to buy one Edited September 4, 2014 by Royalredpanda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamaros_ Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Those ninjas sure do love Xbone lol MS would have been better off just not releasing it there, there is also a photoshop picture of the Forza crowd at the Japan launch. This lol Forza is one of my favorite racing games, but when i played at the first time i just looked at the crowd and said something like "wtf, is this shit, it looks so...weird", then i parked my car near the crowd and started looking at all those guys exactly the same, there was some spots which you could see the same person like 7~8 times. it was so hilarious lol. @thread Another comparison to the PS4 and Xbox launch (same store) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socramies Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 such a sad funny story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoudji Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 That's pretty bad even for M$, but they aren't even trying anyway so... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xxleonardo97xX Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Microsoft should give up on the console market, they already do PC gaming, it's pointless to have a console... Leave the console market to Sony and Nintendo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil_Mermaid_Girl Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 2 photos with no indication of when during the day they were taken doesn't really tell anyone anything. Also, given Xbox has never had much of a market at all in Japan I can't really say that any post or news story, here or otherwise, saying the premier wasn't great for Xbox is actually worthy of having said post or news story. It'd be like me creating a post saying water is wet and expecting it to be news. Someone lacks a funny bone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielVT Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 2 photos with no indication of when during the day they were taken doesn't really tell anyone anything. Also, given Xbox has never had much of a market at all in Japan I can't really say that any post or news story, here or otherwise, saying the premier wasn't great for Xbox is actually worthy of having said post or news story. It'd be like me creating a post saying water is wet and expecting it to be news. The article on kotaku has all the proof you need. This is yet again another failure for the Xbone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJacs2 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 If I recall, the Japanese have a weird thing with the letter x. On PS2 and beyond, games in Japan use the X button for cancel and O for confirm. Hence the reason for the "X"box not doing well in the Japanese market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil_Mermaid_Girl Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 If I recall, the Japanese have a weird thing with the letter x. On PS2 and beyond, games in Japan use the X button for cancel and O for confirm. Hence the reason for the "X"box not doing well in the Japanese market. I don't know if you're right but don't the Japanese also associate the number 4 with death and it's considered an unlucky number. Maybe that's a bad sign for the ps4. It's not selling that great over there either, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJacs2 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I don't know if you're right but don't the Japanese also associate the number 4 with death and it's considered an unlucky number. Maybe that's a bad sign for the ps4. It's not selling that great over there either, right? It did well at launch but has plummeted since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueFireReaper Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Wait, it took an entire year for Microsoft to release the Xbox One in Japan? Something tells me that something is off here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Wait, it took an entire year for Microsoft to release the Xbox One in Japan? Something tells me that something is off here. More like 9 months and a half. Xbox came out in November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihiris- Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 AP is reporting that the Xbox One Japan launch "fell flat on Thursday, with journalists covering the debut far outnumbering buyers," Ouch. I'm no fanboy but that's pretty pathetic for MS lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demigod Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 (edited) I guess this only means that the XBOX wont have that much JRPG support.... again. Oh well, just keep pushing MS. Edited September 5, 2014 by BasickAlphabit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidhero99 Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 (edited) Ganbatte Microsoft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGZoIJ6ag0c Tokyo (AFP) - The Japanese launch of Microsoft's Xbox One fell flat on Thursday, with journalists covering the debut far outnumbering buyers. Japan finally got the console more than nine months after it hit shelves in North America, Europe and Australasia and half a year after domestic heavyweight Sony unleashed its PlayStation 4 to grand acclaim. But the usual enthusiastic crowds that greet big launches in Japan were absent on Thursday morning, with just one buyer at a major electronic retailer in Tokyo. "I was surprised that I was the first one to get this even though I didn't wait in a queue," said Kazuyuki Wakai, surrounded by half a dozen journalists from Japanese and international media. Wakai, 30, said he had opted for the Xbox because of its graphics and because of certain titles that are only available on the console, including the "Halo" series. But Wakai, who also has a number of PlayStations and a Nintendo Wii, admitted the Xbox lags far behind its Japanese rivals in terms of popularity. "It may be because the bad impression of earlier models still lingers," he said, noting hardware designs and initial technical glitches. Both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are aimed at hard-core gamers, strategies the companies hope will insulate them from the challenge posed by free or cheap smartphone downloads popular among the casual player. Microsoft says application software development and linguistic challenges are among the reasons behind the long lag in launching the Xbox One in Japan The company said in April it had shipped more than five million of the consoles globally since it launched in November. Sony said last month global sales of PlayStation 4 had surged past the 10 million mark in less than a year, a record for the Japanese giant. Xbox has been trailing badly in Japan. Japanese sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 were 824,000 units in 2013, dwarfing the fewer than 20,000 Xbox 360 consoles, the predecessor to Xbox One, according to estimates by leading game magazine Famitsu. A Microsoft marketing official told AFP the company expects sales will pick up as more titles are released towards the end of the year. "We have high expectations as this (machine) is loaded with graphics that will surely satisfy game players," he said. Edited September 5, 2014 by kidhero99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkthur Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Not a big surprise, Japan never shows loves for Xbox, why wonder with US tech when theirs is already great? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Wouldnt those that wanted a Xbone already got one. Its japan... these gamers dont wait, they will order it overseas if they have too! of course official release night/day would be dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidhero99 Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 At the very last she became one with the cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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