" The No. 1 objective is to win on a global basis and that may mean winning some markets and losing others,' ' said Greenberg in an interview at the Tokyo Game Show yesterday."

i wonder if this is a good idea and what is the impact on us the consumers, if they abandon japan, wouldn' t that affect the attraction of japanese developers ? if we don' t see japanese games on the xbox console, specialy Jrpg' s, wouldn' t that affect all players around the world?

are they just talking about the marketing to attract the japanese consumer NOT the japanese developer ? if that' s the case then this sounds much better, we need japanese developers so bad but we need microsoft to move its marketing funds from japan to europe, at least this territory is responding to microsoft if they show anything worth it... with Japan, no matte what they do, there is almost no difference. so what do u guys think?

Actually I have to kinda agree with you on this. It is really difficult for Microsoft. They need to have a strong presence in Japan to attract japanese devs, but on the other hand, marketing money spend in Japan is actually wasted money. So if Microsoft is really going to sorta abandon the japanese market I sure hope they have gathered enough japanese developers around them. Capcom shouldn' t be such a big problem, but I believe this' ll make the 360 much less attractive for smaller devs like Treasure.

I understand MS,if they still try and work on Japan,while adding focus to EU that will probably leadt o the best result,but as you guys hinted,they cant abandon Japan.

And if they do,hire+pay for certain developers and make for ex Mistwalker into a MGS studio ffs.

Actually I have to kinda agree with you on this.

is it that hard to agree with me nowadays?

No actually not. But I used to mostly disagree with you some time ago. That has changed now, though.