Also Japan still being a market Microsoft has not managed to properly crack wrt games, makes this even more baffling—surely removing a (successful) local presence is only going to make that harder
I owned one Xbox years ago. I just wanted to play games without technical issues. PC games were better but I just wanted to go arcade mode for a while. One of the first games I bought froze at the first loading screen every single time. I tried contacting the publisher, Microsoft, the developer… No one would help, barely even got responses. I exchanged it for another copy at the local store it came from, the new copy did the exact same thing. No refunds on games so I was stuck with a $50 game that didn’t work.
That’s when I realized that consoles have a lot of technical issues too, it’s just not possible for me to fix them like it is on PC. Later that same xbox red ringed.
Those morons just closed their only “indie” Japanese studio.
Xbox is no longer a serious console, just get a PC.
Also Japan still being a market Microsoft has not managed to properly crack wrt games, makes this even more baffling—surely removing a (successful) local presence is only going to make that harder
I owned one Xbox years ago. I just wanted to play games without technical issues. PC games were better but I just wanted to go arcade mode for a while. One of the first games I bought froze at the first loading screen every single time. I tried contacting the publisher, Microsoft, the developer… No one would help, barely even got responses. I exchanged it for another copy at the local store it came from, the new copy did the exact same thing. No refunds on games so I was stuck with a $50 game that didn’t work.
That’s when I realized that consoles have a lot of technical issues too, it’s just not possible for me to fix them like it is on PC. Later that same xbox red ringed.
Fuck consoles.
Not to imply that Xbox was ever a serious console in Japan.
Go read old articles of the xbox console launches in Japan. It is legitimately sad.
It’s tragic this effectively means just pivoting to a different division in the same company.