Microsoft: Xbox 360 Best for Japanese Publishers
Microsoft touts 360's Japanese connections
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Dead set on reinforcing the message about its prowess with Japanese content, Microsoft used its Tokyo Game Show to announce that the Xbox 360 "has the most top-selling, third-party Japanese titles among all other current games platforms".
Quite what qualifies a game as being "top-selling" wasn't made clear, although that can only be a worldwide phenomenon.
A bit more transparent was the statement from John Schappert (corporate vice president of LIVE, Software and Studios) that $800 million (£460.8 million) worth of games from Japanese publishers have thus far been sold on the Xbox 360, with that figure looking like it will hit $1 billion (£575.9 million) by the end of the holiday period.
Microsoft was also keen to parase offerings from Japan. Square Enix's The Last Remnant and Star Ocean: The Last Hope were shown, with Star Ocean getting a Japanese release date of February 19th and America set to get it on March 3rd - no European date was announced. Capcom's Resident Evil 5 was rolled out and Ninety-Nine Nights II from Q Entertainment, developed by Feelplus, was announced.
On top of all that, a host of Xbox Live Arcade titles were given a mention. You can read the full skinny from Microsoft in its TGS press release.
Quite what qualifies a game as being "top-selling" wasn't made clear, although that can only be a worldwide phenomenon.
A bit more transparent was the statement from John Schappert (corporate vice president of LIVE, Software and Studios) that $800 million (£460.8 million) worth of games from Japanese publishers have thus far been sold on the Xbox 360, with that figure looking like it will hit $1 billion (£575.9 million) by the end of the holiday period.
Microsoft was also keen to parase offerings from Japan. Square Enix's The Last Remnant and Star Ocean: The Last Hope were shown, with Star Ocean getting a Japanese release date of February 19th and America set to get it on March 3rd - no European date was announced. Capcom's Resident Evil 5 was rolled out and Ninety-Nine Nights II from Q Entertainment, developed by Feelplus, was announced.
On top of all that, a host of Xbox Live Arcade titles were given a mention. You can read the full skinny from Microsoft in its TGS press release.
Companies:
Capcom Microsoft Q Entertainment Square Enix
Games: N3 II: Ninety-Nine Nights Star Ocean: The Last Hope The Last Remnant
Games: N3 II: Ninety-Nine Nights Star Ocean: The Last Hope The Last Remnant
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Comments
PreciousRoi 9 Oct 2008 11:18
1/4
I like it, agressively invading the competitions homeland and making no bones about it.
SuperSaiyan4 9 Oct 2008 11:28
2/4
Its all about the games and thats exactly what Microsoft are giving us.
Where is Sony? I heard they are a no show at TGS I don't blame them.
Where is Sony? I heard they are a no show at TGS I don't blame them.
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tyrion 9 Oct 2008 12:15
3/4
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
Where is Sony? I heard they are a no show at TGS I don't blame them.
I have heard Sony inn't having a press conference, but it's certainly there and showing games.
Maybe they need all hands to manage access to Little Big Planet? :-)
tyrion 9 Oct 2008 12:35
4/4
tyrion wrote:
I have heard Sony inn't having a press conference, but it's certainly there and showing games.
Replying to my own post is bad form, but I just missed the timeout for editing.
Sony had a press conference today at TGS. So no issues with Sony's appearance at TGS at all.