Nintendo literally sold cardboard on it.
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Sony still coasting on that loyalty and image as āThe console for Japanese gamesā while doing the absolute bare minimum to earn it.
Xbox gets a lot of hate for āWesternizingā and āAAA-ingā console gaming from certain people when it was Sony that pushed consoles that direction with the PS3. The PS3 was a big slap in the face to Japan coming off the PS1/2 IMO.
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This is one of the best examples of the power of marketing. When this game was coming for Switch, it got extended gameplay trailers on Directs, multiple demos, and a big push from Nintendo. Before it came to PC, they said it was at ~950k. After they silently dropped the PC version with barely any advertising, it is just now hitting 1M. So the PC version only did 50k or worse. Late port plus basically no advertising.
Now we look over at NEO The World Ends With Youā¦ A game that had no advertising. It flopped kinda badly. I think it only appeared in 1 Direct for like a few seconds, did not appear in any Sony show, and the PC version was a late EGS exclusive. Some people say this would have sold more as a Switch exclusive, as Nintendo would have given it that BD2 treatment and marketed the shit out of it. Square for some reason however seemed to be giving PS preferential treatment in the minimal advertising (despite being a sequel to a Nintendo exclusive). For example, there were pictures of ads that were only mentioning the PS4 version of the game in Japanese stores circulating around when the game was coming out.
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Thatās japanese publishers strategy for Xbox, lol. I think they know their late and cheap efforts would bomb, but they are dumb enough to repeat the endless cycle apparently.
SE siding with Sony is no news, they have a stranglehold over there, personal ties with execs, etcā¦even Switch which now owns Japan canāt break it.
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So many ruined Christmas mornings
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Series S is working as intended, for sure.
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Send it to Xbox Gamepass like Octopath, the community will market it.
In the yearly Amazon chart PS5 moved up several spots to #51 but Series S is still at #29 while Series X is at #79. PS5 Digital isnāt in the top 100.
When it comes to availability the only one you can buy right now is Series S.
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Normally wouldnāt post something like this here as itās pretty irrelevant to Xbox, but Iām using it as a lesson to NEVER take fanboy bait seriously
Atlus says SMT V sold 800k on Switch and are very happy with the sales. You would not BELIEVE the amount of Sony fanboys saying this game was a massive flop on Switch. There was a really active campaign AGAINST the game and people were trying to say it only sold about 100k-150k. Some of them were really obvious, saying āwouldnāt have flopped if it was on Playstation.ā I can agree with the game being multiplat, of course, no reason not to (unless Nintendo was involved in the exclusivity?), but the way they were painting the game as a massive failure because it wasnāt on Playstation was justā¦ ugh.
Iām really surprised at those numbers on something like SMT. This is a blatant showing that there is very much an audience for Persona on Switch (and it would for sure do well on Xbox as itās one of the most popular JRPGs around). If Persona 6 is still PS exclusive, then Iām inclined to believe that they have a contract with Sony and mainline Persona will never appear on anything but PS and maybe PC (P4G Steam port).
For comparison, SMT 4 sold 600k on 3DS in 2 years. This sold 800k on Switch in 2 months.
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Letās see if it can work with Starfield. Thatās their greatest challenge.
What?
Based on the post, it was stated that Sony fans claimed the Atlus game for Switch was deemed as a flop, only to be false. Iām saying that their true challenge is Starfield, since they have been saying Bethesda being exclusive to Xbox will be disaster in sales. Thatās what they claimed.
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People really should learn the better a game sells, exclusive or not, then the chances are higher that 1. The game will come out on more platforms later 2. A complete, super, extra, whatever edition will come out on more platforms. 3. Even if those things canāt/donāt happen, similar but different games (clones) will be made that will come out. 4. If the game bombs, people get fired and chances are the game dies forever. There is no "ooops it must be the Switch users that donāt play these types of games tee hee, next time weāll just increase the budget and release it on Playstation. Gomennasai Sony players weāll never do it again 
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People really need to stop acting like some bitter jilted lover going on smear campaigns just because a game isnāt on their platform.
Linking this here since it is a dangerous topic in some threads.
It would be nice if Xbox updated its Bing maps to include the countries outside the US. This āhere there be dragons - let them have scrapsā is getting a bit old.
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IDK where you come from, but I can assure you they are not, I canāt fathom seeing ads for everything PS or Nintendo and not a single one for Xbox sinceā¦? I donāt even remember when. Letās not even start to talk about localization, lol.
Dev presence =/ market presence
Outside english speaking countries their are cheap, thatās the right definition, maybe now they are spending some dollar for Japan because over there they need to at least appear as interested because of heavy dev presence, but in continental EU? lol
I always thought the new consoles would have been pushed more, but no, I was dead wrong. They are selling better only because they are a better product and GP is a steal, imagine how much better they could go if they actually advertized their shit.
If I could talk to Phil it would be the first thing Iād ask, their localization/marketing efforts here are borderline non-existant.
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Iām in Sweden and well, Mojang is about as Xbox branded as you can imagineā¦
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I come from Italy and i can see a different perception about Xbox Brand. Also the main gaming sites (like everyeye.it - the most important in Italy) are changing their point of view speaking very well about XBOX. many of my Mates have subscribed Gamepass for console or PC. Yes, Xbox needs to improve its marketing but I personally see some changes.
Iām also come from Italy and tell me if you ever saw a tv ad or a simple billboard since X1 launch? I didnāt and I live in Milan, which is the HQ of MS south EU, lol. Localization is worse than 360 era, Forza was dubbed, itās no more, even some Halo spin-off didnāt make the cut and in general, aside from mainline Halo and Gears, nothing is dubbed, which doesnāt help at all when you see a huge effort coming from Sony. Specialized websites, yeah, they talk more about Xbox, because, as I said, the product is objectively better than in the past, but also there you can see the difference of ads space and review codes. If Iām not wrong the italian Xbox staff are like 2-3 people, the MS chief of marketing didnāt even know Xbox was launching a new console in fall 2020, they interviewed her on a famous tech website, lol, imagine the ugly figure and thatās the sum of MS consideration of Xbox outside NA. People like it more because of word of mouth, thatās my issue, MS is spending / putting a shit effort.
Ciao, sono Giacomo, piacere. In Rome, i seen a massive marketing for Gamepass in underground
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Alessandro. 
This news does surprise me, I saw shit in Milan, underground included, only PS5 ads EVERYWHERE, lol. Anyway their effort is really cheap compared to Sony, Iāve never seen anymore an Italian ad for Xbox on tv since Ryse I think, or maybe Sunset Overdrive. They cut the budget and never looked back.