24th December 2006, 11:48 AM
A Black Falcon Wrote:True about VF5, I hadn't noticed.
Anyway, while ideally other developers would notice, developers often pay attention to their own region first, and not others, so the most popular systems in their own region get most of their games. This is true for American publishers too... notice where most of the Xbox/X360 games are from, and notice how the N64 got better American third party support than the much less successful in the US GC got... so yeah, while some games will (and are) coming on X360, I think that most Japan-developed titles will be on the systems that are the most successful systems there. Which almost certainly will not be the X360. :)
This is not necessarily true. Team Ninja's game do rather poorly in Japan, but have been million sellers thanks to the U.S. and Europe (save for DOAX). Capcom's games tend to do much better outside of Japan as well. Namco is pretty much in the same boat. The North American and European markets are each double the size of Japan's market. A developer can't ignore that.
Jak 3 : Jet Set Radio Future : Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee : Final Fantasy XII : Shadow of the Colossus : more to come...
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