Xbox & Japan. The soap opera of that generation. There is no great game for many of the fans of the Microsoft console to see that a Blue Dragon or Lost Oddyssey sequence is almost impossible today. The Xbox has lost a great place in Japan that gained the Xbox 360's age, but as we have seen over the years, Philip Spencer, the head of the league, is struggling to find the region again.
Each new announcement at E3 or last X0 is bigger than the previous one: The Yakuza saga, the entire Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star Online 2 or the complete saga of Kingdom Hearts They are beautiful and are the latest examples of it, but nonetheless, fans continue to ask more. With the cancellation of Scalebound, the fact that only Japanese selling comsoles are no longer available and not only that. Multiplatform releases continue to skip (now to a lesser extent) the Xbox One, which is starting to become unacceptable.
Phil Spencer, injured by a Japanese cross-platform
We should quote the last podcast in which Phil Spencer participated, GamerTag radio, which at the time of its program number 1000, had a very important personality. He did not stop there Xbox Series X, if not for a Japanese issue, to tell us that the status of the Xbox platform is not acceptable to him. So, they want to turn the tables on the Xbox Series X, by betting heavily on Japan not only on development issues, but also on their own sales in the country, where the Xbox One came out 10 months later, for example.
But what caught our attention is that Phil Spencer is one of us, with these comments:
When I started the project, the first thing I noticed was the third party editors (Japan) avoiding the Xbox One and didn't even open anything on the platform. There are some examples of this and I suffer with them individually.
Appropriately, for this reason, each of the new E3 games up and coming, using this great show to make and it is still Phil Spencer's intention to have this happen again this year. Will we soon see any frameworks such as Dragon Quest or Persona come to the Xbox? It is clear that Phil has all the ambitions to happen and it looks like the Xbox Series X will help.
