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360 To Be Relaunched In Japan
GamesIndustry.biz reports that Microsoft is planning to relaunch their next-gen console in Japan ... now that there are some games to offer players. The event is scheduled to happen in June, to coincide with that country's launch of Ghost Recon, among other titles. From the article: "It's not yet clear what form the relaunch might take - whether it will see the console's pricing or bundles being changed, or if it will simply be a new marketing campaign focused on the locally relevant software available for the system. Japan was the only territory where the Xbox 360 did not sell out at launch, despite having a smaller allocation than any other market, and in fact the launch underperformed by comparison with the launch of the original Xbox - itself hardly a stellar success story in the region."
Why fail something once, when you can fail it twice at twice the cost?
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Japan doesn't need or want a FPS game like Ghost Recon. What they want is Brain Training and Nintendogs. They want Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. They want Zelda and Mario.
If the second launch doesn't include any new genres, then I expect it to succeed as much as the first one. That is to say, not at all.
Funtime Candy Wow! - my plan for eventually conquering Japan.
You're right. Instead of the enemy being Mexican, they should have set it in China.
Or Korea.
That would have been much better localization.
No reason to lie.