Western Xbox Titles To Flood Japan?

Posted by simoniker on Thursday June 26, 2003 @11:08PM from the overwhelm-them-with-numbers dept.

Thanks to GamePro for posting an article discussing the fact that Microsoft may try to keep the Xbox alive in Japan by flooding the market in less territory-suitable, but already in-development Western titles such as Conker, Voodoo Vince, and Counter-Strike. According to the article, a Japanese retail chain "..claims that Microsoft is planning to release overseas titles in Japan without bothering to localize them for the local market - in other words, they'll release the original English version with a Japanese manual attached." The article suggests this is a sign that Microsoft may forget about the mass-market in Japan, and will be "..dropping its large-scale strategy [until Xbox 2], and concentrating on the 400,000 or so hardcore fans it's managed to scrape together over the past 16 months."

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The trick to selling in japan.... by UltimaL337Star · 2003-06-27 07:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

-include a hentai tentacle that comes in randomly like those heads in mortal kombat -attach a color to the name like ruby, saphire and silver to the game series but since they don't like counter-strike don't make a gold which will confuse them because they'll be looking for the counterpart to silver. -include an option to ally with germany -use marketing terms like "booster pack", "only for [insert system here]", and "UATA/133". -tell them they have large penis (applies to all males)