Was Blue Dragon What X360 Needed In Japan?

simoniker writes "Have major RPG Blue Dragon and other Microsoft efforts paved the way for Japanese Xbox 360 success? 8-4 Ltd's John Ricciardi and Kotaku's Japanese correspondent Brian Ashcraft have been talking about the issue, with Ricciardi commenting on Gears Of War's recent appearance in the Japanese Top 10 game chart, with 33,000 units sold in one week: 'I mean, granted, everything is relative — so yes, in a market where the average 360 game sells around 5,000 copies, 30,000 or so may seem like a big deal, but at the end of the day, their userbase is not expanding. The week Gears came out they only sold a little over 7,000 pieces of hardware. It's not enough.'"

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Games aside, the console is awfully bulky

[4season]

I wonder how well it fits into the average Japanese home?

Re:MS and Japan

[brkello]

Uh...I think you are completely ignorant of what Blue Dragon is. If you did know what it is, you would know why what you wrote is 100% false. It never ceases to amaze me how a Slashdotter thinks they are more intelligent than the people at a billion dollar corporation.

MS DOES get what Japanese gamers want. Blue Dragon proves this. They have taken some of the biggest Japanese names in RPGs an anime and put them to the task of creating an exclusive Xbox360 JRPG title.

Your post is not insightful...it is clueless being modded up by others without a clue as well.

Re:Is Blue Dragon what they needed?

[SpeedyRich]

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-- From under a bridge.