Xbox Gears Up For Tokyo Game Show

Posted by simoniker on Friday September 12, 2003 @05:42AM from the still-trying-in-japan dept.

Thanks to TeamXbox for their round-up of the new Japanese-developed titles Microsoft is showing at this year's Tokyo Game Show, which starts September 26th. They include first-party titles like Phantom Dust, which Gamers.com describes as "...an action game in the Devil May Cry mold [from] Yukio Futatsugi, who in a past generation was the director of Sega's Panzer Dragoon", as well as Magatama, portrayed as "...a 3D action game set in a fantastic version of ancient Japan - comparisons to Onimusha wouldn't be too far of a stretch." A notable non-Japanese Xbox title that will also debut at TGS is BioWare's Jade Empire, "an action-RPG from the creators of Star Wars: KotOR [in which you play] a young martial arts student, trying to gain the respect and admiration of your teacher and the townsfolk."

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Re:Never going to happen by lidocaineus · 2003-09-12 09:07 · Score: 2, Informative

omg, you know NOTHING about japanese culture or attitudes regarding brand loyalty (you've simply stated a very dumb, american-popularized pov). The fact is that nobody buys the Xbox because as you said, there are hardly any games tailored to Japanese video gamers' tastes. The poor sales of the Xbox in Japan being and end with that simple reason, not blind love of japanese companies.