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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Re:I may have to go buy an XBOX by edwdig · 2003-06-27 02:11 · Score: 2, Interesting

The new Conker for XBox is the N64 game with upgraded graphics, and a few things that were cut because of time constraints. The Deathmatch modes will also be playable on XBox Live.

Don't expect much more from the single player. Shortly after Conker came out, the guy who did the voices in the game spent a few weeks answers questions on a Rare fan site. He gave the impression that there wasn't much they didn't get to do. The main thing he said they were originally planning on doing but didn't was to place lots of money in hard to get places in the later parts of the game, after there was no longer a need for money.