Why Xbox Failed In Japan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2019
- Microsoft's Xbox consoles have become a global hit. But there's one market where they don't work - Japan. Of the 46.9 million Xbox Ones sold worldwide through the second quarter of 2019, just 0.3% of them have been in Japan, according to IDC. Meanwhile, Japanese companies Sony and Nintendo are popular with consumers.
When Microsoft announced it was developing a video game console, the industry was skeptical. In the ’90s, Microsoft was known for its software, not its hardware business.
Almost two decades later, Microsoft’s Xbox has become a popular console, holding its own against Sony and Nintendo.
But there’s one market where the Xbox hasn’t been a hit with consumers - Japan.
When Microsoft released the Xbox in 2001 in the United States, Japan was the gaming juggernaut of the world. It was home to the three big console makers, Nintendo, Sega and Sony, and had the best developers.
Microsoft faced three big challenges launching the Xbox in Japan. It had to convince Japanese developers to make games for Xbox, overcome consumers’ skepticism about the first edition’s bulky design, and make up for lost sales from launching after the holiday period.
Today, Microsoft still struggles to sell consoles in Japan. Of the 46.9 million Xbox Ones sold worldwide through the second quarter of 2019, just 0.3% of them have been in Japan, according to the International Data Corporation.
While Japan is a big market for video games, Dean Takahashi, the lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat, said Microsoft doesn’t rely on Japanese consumers.
“Japan is still down, but they don’t actually need it to make billions of dollars,” Takahashi said.
In a statement to CNBC, Microsoft said Japan is an important part of its global gaming community.
“We’re committed to bringing innovative and homegrown content from Japan’s leading game creators to a global audience,” said Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s executive vice president of gaming, in a statement.
While Japanese consumers prefer Sony’s PlayStation or Nintendo’s Switch, Microsoft’s relationship with its Japanese competitors is changing. Watch this video to learn more about how Microsoft is working with Sony on the future of video gaming.
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Why The Xbox Failed In Japan
this is like selling milk to people with cows
It's like selling stale milk to people with cows.
It's like selling steak to people with wagyu beef
I have cattle, but I still buy milk. You don't get milk from beef cattle.
@@Riverbend1752 But im talking about people who have cows and gets milk from their cows
This is a stupid analogy... y'all acting like Sony is just giving away playstations in Japan
It's funny how Nintendo rejecting Sony is what created the Playstation and Sony Rejecting Microsoft is what created the Xbox
that is funny
same goes to atari and nintendo
our worlds creations stem from rejection and doubt. It creates a competitive market. Humility can carry you a long way in life . . .
Nintendo rejected Sony because Sony went under the table to build PlayStation!
@@irfanhakim1749 really idk about that where you guys getting this info
Basically Japan: "Why buy something from another nation if my country sells the same thing?"
*better
@@roton5931 sure the ps4 was better then the Xbox one but the 360 beat the ps3 and it looks like the series x is way better then the ps5 for the moment
But the iPhone is the most popular phone in Japan, Apple has like over 70% of the market, meanwhile Japanese people aren't buying Sony phones
Yeah, it's better, honestly xbox is a gringo thing, the controllers are awesome tho'.
@@FrikiArmy The Xbox controller feels way too big for me, and technically my hands are considered big
Meanwhile in Japan:
"Why our guns failed to sell in the US."
Tokyo marui guns are almost aways sold out though that sweet Japanese quality 👌
@@PrestonGarvey69 that was racist. And Tokyo marui is a Airsoft gun company, that sells better quality airsoft rifles than any other east or west companies. Infact most airsoft gun brands sells rip offs of a Tokyo marui design. It doesn't matter where a gun is made. It what matters is the designer designed the gun correctly. And the company producing the parts withholds the manufacturing specs of the design during production. And the gun owner to be smart and practicing safety measures. Eg don't load a round that's too hot for the gun to shot safely. There's plenty of American and russian made guns I wouldn't touch especially the bullpups they seem to constantly fail to chamber or fail to eject.
Salty
@@PrestonGarvey69 Lol, of course, you didn't reply to the other guy afterwards, loser.
Why sell guns when you can sell Katanas?
They are cheaper to make
The same reason Japan don't buy Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Japan has Toyota, Honda, and Nissan.
N P that’s not true Japan had Sony making smartphones but all Japanese bought were iPhones
That is not true. Similar to Europe, they heavily tax foreign cars.
Its not a free market
I love my Honda Civic ^_^
N P these companies failed in Europe for the same reason
N P while Americans still buy Honda Toyota Nissan even though they have Ford GM Chrysler
I remember when i was in Japan and I went to a game store. Nintendo and Sony literally was the entire store while the xbox had like a corner
What it feels like to be a Vita owner in America.
Tsar Marklovski the vita is discontinued
Tsar Marklovski or anyother japanese 😅
*Lbox
*Diebox 😂
I almost sweat seeing Sony rejected MS thinking what happened to Nokia...
Lol. It's happening with Bethesda now
6:26 : The second problem is that the X Box is just to big
Ps5 be like :
xd
XD
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The new xbox is even bigger than the ps5 tho
PS5 is now the biggest console compared other new gens (it's same height with my MATX PC btw)
"Microsoft's own team in Japan refused to endorse the Xbox"
It's treason then
Dew it!
No? They said the Americans had made a crap product that would not sell in Japan.
@@snetmotnosrorb3946 it was a joke and a reference to a famous film
Ah.
Lord Mango What film is it?
0.3% = American soldiers.
lol
@CarriedLawyer45 There is a american Military base in Japan
CarriedLawyer45 there are American soldiers stationed in japan. So the 00.3% is probably them since they are American
CarriedLawyer45 god ur stupid
Bruh👌👌👌👌👌😂😂😂
Rip to the ones who lined up for the kinect
I lowkey miss my kinect used always talk shiet to cortana
"It's too big...."
That's what she said.
But in all retrospect, I remember the first xbox being an abomination from the first controller to the size of the console...
Ugh, the CONTROLLER. It was like holding a human head with buttons on it!
The Japanese controller was a lot smaller and ended up becoming the default x box pad when ms ditched the duke
Because Nintendo said: " we don't do that here."
Fernando “that’s not how you’re supposed to play”
" are wii gonn have a problem here :)"
@@jaydenc367 lmaooo
@@jaydenc367 ay you gotta *switch* up your attitude, bro..
Can you guys stop acting like a *dock*
*_THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE......_*
*_Nintendo, Sony, BANDAI NAMCO, SQUARE ENIX, KOMAMI, CAPCON, SEGA......._*
Capcom
Konami
xbox fail in most market anyhow....
no konami
Where’s Naughty Dog
The only reason Xbox gained any foothold at all in Japan with the 360 was because of Sony's missteps. The PS3 was too difficult to program for, meaning that development costs were a lot higher. Many American developers would simply make their game for the 360 then port it to the PS3 later- and a few Japanese developers did the same (like Tri-Ace).
Correct title: Why Xbox failed everywhere besides US
Thats next video i guess
Failure is a strong word, they sell less consoles than their competitors but they’re clearly profitable
@@rabd9881 yes, but the xbox one did fail. No one was intrested of buying an xbone
@@ppprenxx it lost to the ps4 in sales numbers but 50 million sales isn’t "no one".
@@rabd9881 i mean almost no one in asia was intrested in xbox one, my bad. I live in southeast asia and everyone ik including my relatives own a ps or a nintendo. I used to own a 360 tho
Comments section be like: It's like selling oil to Saudi Arabia.
@Master Of puppets That's a huge understatement
It's like selling oil to Venezuela
@@mister.07 it’s like selling guns to the us
It's like selling US made guns to Russia
@@slang3180 but....we would still buy them...we Do still buy them...lmfao
why buy Xbox when sony PlayStation is made in your back yard.
Playstation is made by Californians now though. Or atleast they call the shots. So its not like the console is even Japanese anymore since its regulated by Californians.
But in all honesty, xbox is pretty crappy even in other parts of southeast asia. It is viewed as poorman's playstation.
Kejiri It's still Japanese owned. They just give power of playstation to a division.
@@kejiri3593 it's Japanese wtf u talking about?
@@kurdellmitchell4456 Yeah thats why the Playstation HQ moved from Japan to California. Keep thinking that lol. If all the shots are made by Californians... then yeah its very much driven by puritans living in that area.
Sales figures revealed for ps5 and x box in japan.
PS5-118,000
XBOX-21,000
not surprised tbh
i am kinda shocked xbox did that well there
Within 30 seconds: "Japan is home to Nintendo, Sega, and Sony"
thanks for the video, CNBC
Its like when Taco Bell tried to get into México. Just didnt work a week.
hah thats funny !
.
What where they thinking that’s like taking panda to China
You're clueless
@@tommyanomaly6193 so are you trying to say that Taco bell was a thing in Mx?
Simple answer : Japan's Playstation.
The End.
And Switch
BeryAb And Nintendo all together
Then why don't the US consumers support Xbox as much ? They love ps4 too
don't forget Sega console
@@dexter99999 because of exclusives
I’m here to tell you the short answer, Japanese won’t buy american console when they have their own
Masahiro Sakurai: So, if you want to play banjo and kazooie today, you can do so on Xbox
Overanalysing the issue, there was a big range of local games released exclusively in Japan, which wasn't on the xbox360 or One. Buying an Xbox in Japan means you are missing out on a whole bunch of games everyone else were playing.
This
Leave it to the college grads at CNBC that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground
Xbox the first and 360 had a good line up of games including japanese ones like ninja gaiden which was a system seller for me.
Japan exclusive games are always a big thing to them. You can try Visual Novels on your PC and see if Westerners will not get bored for this.
@@asherif3893 ninja gaiden
its like invading a well fortified fortress of SONY and Nintendo
The only reason I could think of why Sony is "so" well known, is because of the Playstation.😂
Tari Yeet for a while at least, playstation was the only profitable branch of sony
@@ManuelKoegler CAMERA
@@tsuna111 nah
Tari Yeet and tv 📺
This is like planting a fruit on a tree.
“Never the amount of revenue it represented “but goes ahead and merged with PlayStation for cloud gaming
When they said never the amount of the revenue its represented I was like: Ok, so they give up now, but don't admit it
I love how they say second best selling console like there is 20 other systems to compete agaist it lol
Exactly, poor old man Nintendo was having a rough time as well.
Luiz Alex Phoenix nintendo having a hard time? You should check up on the handheld segment of gaming, nintendo owns. DS/3DS and now the Switch consoles? Man nintendo is far from having a rough time.
@@haqiyoo the only reason Nintendo is still making hardware is because they own the licensing to all the Pokemon and Sega games. Plus the LOZ properties
Look up “data is beautiful best selling console”. Gg no re.
@@hypergiantstar1834
According to the latest sales demographics, the switch has sold 36.87 million units worldwide. The PS4 has sold over 100 million units. The switch sells more on a monthly basis I think, making it a faster seller on a quarterly basis but doesn't have as much total sales according to official data.
"The original Xbox was too big"
**Looks at the PlayStation 5**
To be fair, Sony Interactive Entertainments global headquarters are in California now
And Xbox sold out in japan and South Korea
South Korea in 1 minute
Japan a little bit longer
Mritunjoy Takhellambam how am I being an Xbox fanboy... I just stated that they sold out... this is the first time Xbox sold out in japan. Lemme guess you’re the sad criticism Xbox has no games even though we do and you have to pay extra for your games and one of your biggest games this generation last of us 2 got 3.4 metacritic score. Hmmm now let’s see you’re the type that says Bethesda is trash even though they have a good track record. You’re the type to say Xbox is anti consumer for putting Bethesda as exclusive after PS5’s 2 timed exclusives. Yes we have wait and see. And no they’re not neck and neck. Xbox is heading a different route. Subscriptions are the future believe it or not. PlayStation is still using the old strategy of buy once play. Big deal ps5 sold out in japan.. WhAt a ShOcKeR. You know cos I’m not a fanboy, I can easily say PlayStation has good games. Maybe not as good as fanboys say it is. But they’re good. Xbox, well. They’ll win anyway it’s all about money in the end and Xbox alone is worth nearly 6x of SONY. So take your pick for long term
@@therock238360 yeah to beat such a giant high tech company like Microsoft they need american enginers
@Brandon Ho PlayStation is better than x box though cuz they have better games and more Exclusives.
Hm, it would be like a foreigner trying to introduce a new fast food franchise in USA.
Still possible
you clearly underestimate our ability to eat
It will succeed easily.
Sony built the PlayStation by themselves because Nintendo ditched them who wanted to build the console together.
Microsoft built Xbox by themselves because Sony ditched them who wanted to build the console together.
Let’s just call Stadia a monumental failure.
5G baby, be patient
@@Johnny.bar99 the business model is heavily flawed and its only a matter of time where PSnow and game pass bring in the big titles and recently the head of stadia replied back to the fans that were asking why is stadia's title line up is running slow and he said it's up to the developers to support it that alone says enough.
@@Johnny.bar99 It doesn't matter when the service itself is pretty bad compared Geforce Now, PS Now and Xcloud. So, be patient for its downfall into Google Graveyard.
@@carlosmartinez3020 you also forgot GeForce now for who can use it is much better than Google Stadia for mostly it doesn't over promise and underdeliver but also as it lets you change the graphics settings. So GeForce now is more so like a GPU compute cloud you can buy into for $5/month for just games that you bought on steam, epic, battle .net and probably some others.
To that nVidia did try what Google is trying now but it failed back in early 2007 when it tried it so they refined it and changed the business model to fit what we are willing to go with. The model nVidia is going with now seems to be working as $5/month is for a service without noticeable latency though you do have to be close to the server and you do have que lines to wait in, then you also have a limit on how long you single session can be until you go back into said que. To that most people don't play for more than 6 hours at a time.
Which is pretty sad to be honest. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft couod use some competition. Sony and Microsoft working together is great evidence of this.
I’m Japanese
I’ve never seen people buying Xbox in Japan
Most Japanese people don’t have the idea of buying Xbox
One funny thing about that, xbox one is even advertised as a blue ray player in some stores in japan.
Okay, so what?
Stop saying you are Japanese.
@@jamesharden4662 whats your problem dude? you insecure from japanese haha
Alex _
Those are the reasons I guess
A lot of game contents which is popular among Japanese people are not lunched from Xbox version
Ad of Xbox is rarely seen in Japan ,so a lot of Japanese people have never heard of Xbox
two popular game worldwide Nintendo and PlayStation were made baste on Japanese taste, but Xbox was based on the US taste
@@user-oi2ux3ki4v so that also means its basically impossible to just walk in a store and grab a xbox game ?
Nintendo > PlayStation > Xbox in my book.
PlayStation is finished after moving to California. I miss when the PlayStation was in Japan. PS2 is the best console ever.
I used to hang out at SCE Tokyo hq back in the days of semiconductor sales, a few minutes uphill walk from the Akasakamitsuke station
Playstation's becoming boring every generation. So glad Nintendo keeps to their roots by being who they are and not what they aren't. And it's absolutely pathetic that idiotic western gamers; especially western journalists and industry insiders want Nintendo to just stop being themselves and be edgy that appeals to people with low IQ levels. It's just disgusting and they need to just keep to themselves! You don't see the Japanese doing this, so why should western journalists NOT be modest!?! It makes no sense!
Japan only like console that comes from their country
I think
It helps their country back
Japan: *Laugh with PS4 and Switch*
This is like the Meiji restoration except the opposite
That’s the thing. Xbox is trying to fill a hole that doesn’t exist.
@@shecklesmack9563 Xbox had much better titles and gameplay prior to PS4.
@@ericmanget4280 you're wrong Xbox fanboy
OddZzyy ? I mean your right but its all opinion, also you don’t have to be rude about something just because you’re biased
"video game journalist who is notoriously bad at video games, Dean Takahashi" Fixed that for ya
Miyamoto is more well known for Mario and Zelda, whereas Masahiro Sakurai is usually credited as the creator of smash bros in the smash community
Kirby too
@@justinevilofficial that’s his son
But shivery Miyamoto was responsible for Pikmin and Star fox too. And Sakurai was also responsible for kid Icarus and Kirby
Mario too
@@Amparito847 he didn’t create kid icarus tho
No one:
Sakurai: Play Banjo on Xbox
Japan: *N A N I !?!*
Omae wa moe shindeiru
@@crashpal oniichan wa baka!
kono yaro...
Lol
What?
Why bother when most of the JRPGs are going to be released on PlayStation and Switch/Wii?
you mean those Hentai games?
True. Dragon Quest games have never been on Xbox systems.
xbox fail in most market anyhow....
@@amazingeric97
devil mya cry?
Oscar Murya Tjiarmonegara dragon quest 11, persona, tales series etc
Its like selling a Ford to Japan when they have Toyota.
And Mitsubishi, and Honda, and Nissan, and Suzuki, and Subaru, and Kawasaki, and
Lexus, and Mazda 😬
Yeah lol
I have used the PS3 and the 360. I liked the PS3 way way better. I can't say for anything newer as I have never used them.
i had them both too i liked the 360 better
You missed the mark. Microsoft was poaching for Japanese game developers. They wanted established Japanese game studios to develop games exclusively for Xbox. That attitude is what drove Japanes developers away. If xbox doesn't get Japanese games what good is it for the Japanese consumer when most of the western games will be released on Playstation or windows anyways.
nice
I remember when xbox didn't had any anime related games. It was mostly on ps2 . But now everything is cross platform.
xbox fail in most market anyhow....
Microsoft is hostiles towards physical copies and Japan loves physical copies, in Japan in 2017 over 70% of music sales were of physical copies. While all three of the console manufacturers are hostile towards physical copies, Microsoft is by far the most hostile, which is disappointing considering they were still promoting actual physical copies on PC (physical copies with the game on disc(s) and that don't require any scum digital distributor like Steam) while Valve was having their anti physical copy, pro digital distribution brainwashing campaign.
Japan is the last bastion of physical copies, unfortunately they are faltering. They should resist digital distribution while they still can.
Source pls these bold claims make sense only if they are true
Meanwhile at Nintendo headquarters
“Let them fight”
Its not really a fight...sony has been dominating sales for almost a decade now
Nintendo is clueless
@@Areebxrk how
@@andrewfisher4902 why are the modern Nintendo games crappy?
@@coleashed3061 the switch is just a fancy android tablet with a joystick.
in japan : "what is xbox?"
Japan : we created the video game console
USA : here's ours
Japan :
I play PlayStation and I’m American. Tbf though PlayStation has been Americanized since that is where most of their consumers are so they have their headquarters in the u.s (i think?).
@@Sub4CarClips true but playstation is owned by sony i believe so basically a Japanese/American company??
@@savage2576 well technically speaking yeah they are Japanese but every year they start turning more American
@@savage2576 So why don't you say that the company nissan mitsubishi toyota basically a Japanese/American company because they have factory or company in usa
panasonic or hitachi Set up a factory in China then it must be Japanese/chinese company. You may not understand the Japanese business practice.
*Wii**
You can’t win an away game, especially when the opponents are PlayStation and Nintendo
@Tidder T 🅱️ruh one of the xbox competitors didnt show up for e3
@Tidder T PlayStation's E3 was very boring and a few titles looked like they were definitely influenced by Western politics. Microsoft did show alot but not as much as people would want them to.
@Tidder T TLOU 2 and anything with nasty themes like that.
Alex Smith he obviously wasn’t talking about that though. Considering Sony wasn’t even at E3 this year we STILL don’t know what he’s talking about.
Tidder T Ireland, Britain, actually most of Europe would disagree, you do get the whole logic of Japan has a large percentage of the world's population on it, which is actually where most of Sony and Nintendo make their sales and profits
Not only in Japan. In Spain ps4 had 93% of the market before Swich
It is same everywhere except US, UK.
Afnan Acchan And Mexico, we love Xbox
Afnan Acchan bwahah get your facta together😑
So only wealthy countries buy Xbox ;)
In Brasil too
It's like having a Pizza Hut, Papa John's, a Domino's Pizza in New York City..
Me after slapping their fake, medium microwave tasting, pizza out of their hand: This is New York fam! We don'tdo those!
Are you really acting better than everyone else because you eat different pizza? Jesus Christ this is cringe
Pizza hut is popular here in Australia and we don't microwave our pizza
I've must've hit a sensitive spot for you @@sometimesknownas3610 ?
Tell me all about it?
I'm here for you. Big hugs for comfort 🤗
When its all you have, you'll make it work
they have all of these in nyc
Nintendo rejects sony: Play station
Sony rejects microsoft: Xbox
c'mon microsoft do something.
Microsoft rejects Apple: iBox 🤣🤣
@@lionelsanches8699 sorry for being late, but Apple did have a console with Bandai. It's called "Apple Bandai Pippin".
Japanese have loyalty to their own brands when Sega Saturn and Dreamcast failed everywhere else they succeeded in Japan for years even having games being made exclusively for Japan long after their failure
Unfortunately a single country can't maintain an international company, lets just see how Sega ended
Only being popular in your own country is a massive failure. Unless it's a small scale console only with the intention of selling it within its own borders. But unfortunately those two consoles were trying to compete with Nintendo first, then with Sony with the PS1 and the PS1 absolutely destroyed the Dreamcast, which I owned and loved. In the end, they got absolutely demolished by Sony and Nintendo and thus Sega pulled out of the console wars and became solely a developer/publisher; which has worked better for them anyways.
if japanese is loyal to their brand then sony phone will be hot item but instead iphone is the best selling in japan.
@@jsdev4454 Loyalty only goes so far
@@matrixbudgrower4202 The laser lens would fail in all my PS2s but PS3 worked for me
"The Xbox One has sold almost 46.9M units worldwide"That's pretty impressive until you find out that PS4 sold over 105M units.Also, the Switch has sold 41.6M units, and it was released 4 years after the Xbox One.
l33tm1g17 think how many people there are in Japan or other Asian countries
@Golden Apple competition is good. Xbox is good for the industry.
@@raveno6625 think how many people there are in the US
Yes and thats this gen last gen they sold equal numbers.
@DrSnausage Doesn't matter when it is a number one console in the world currently. You do you.
I bought one of the original Xboxes in 2002. Awesome gaming machine, and it played DVDs too.
If you had a DVD accessory
@@Nameless10949 I did. Bought one about two weeks after I bought the Xbox. Came with a remote control that glowed green in the dark. Sick.
The original Xbox released February 22, 2002 in Japan.
2 weeks later, many users complain about the disc scratch issue.
But Microsoft refused to repair the console dispute disc scratch.
Also Nintendo decades later:
*"The Joy-con drift never happened"*
They should’ve known. It’s like selling steak to a vegan
CNBC should know this*.
Microsoft is a global company that will try to sell everywhere because that's what global companies do. This isn't exactly breaking news.
Microsoft is hostiles towards physical copies and Japan loves physical copies, in Japan in 2017 over 70% of music sales were of physical copies. While all three of the console manufacturers are hostile towards physical copies, Microsoft is by far the most hostile, which is disappointing considering they were still promoting actual physical copies on PC (physical copies with the game on disc(s) and that don't require any scum digital distributor like Steam) while Valve was having their anti physical copy, pro digital distribution brainwashing campaign.
Japan is the last bastion of physical copies, unfortunately they are faltering. Everyone should resist digital distribution while we still can.
@@randomtask3539Japan loves physical copies yet Japan is known to value space, delete your nonsense comment
Random Task have u seen fallout 76 just a peace of cardboard and a digital code that might start a trend for all game publishers
@@jazrocks19 Physical Titles take less space than actual console and you could resell those games and they also have collective value. Japanese people do have smaller homes but they also buy dozens of manga and light novels. His argument was reasonable.
8:19
"Xbox One also had a strong start"
Well I wouldn't call a presentation that looked more like a DVR commercial and almost buried the console before it was even released a "strong start".
I wouldn't call a presentation a start.. I could call the day it is released for sale the start
@La Flama Blanca Are you referring to bias for Microsoft? Or against Microsoft?
@La Flama Blanca Moron. That is the truth. Microsoft had a weak start on the XB1 with their trainwreck presentation, and you are saying the people here are using historical negationsim? GTFO of here! You're just a stereotypical Xbox fanboy.
An Idiot From Space you misread their comment
Sony and Nintendo rule in Japan and Asia.
Lmfao, Internet speeds are barely great worldwide. Seeing how Stadia failed proves that streaming video games is a long ways off.
It's great in enough places.
Game streaming hasnt failed. It has just started to be popular a year ago. In places where the norm is fast internet, such here in sweden where most people have 100mbit it is actually very popular. I have at least 3 real life friends, except for myself that primarly play in the cloud: GeForce Now and Stadia. In places with slow or unreliable internet it is probably not an option, but many places have good stable internet this days
As game streaming gets more popular it also insentivising the building of better internet infrastructure. Just like 3D game leads to 3D graphics cards to become popular in the 1990s and now every gamer use them
Pros of game streaming: 1. zero install time. 2. Can never run out of disk space
Cons: non if you have stable and good internet which many people(but not all) have today.
Install GeForce and try it. You can try it for free without giving any credit card
@@kelper205
I said Stadia failed. Video game streaming is long off.
Well they didnt fail, because Stadia is still up serving plenty of great games adding more all the time. So you must have a very weird definiton of "failed"? If Stadia shuts down I would agree with you, but havent happend
@@kelper205 the stadia did fail, you can't deny facts lol
I read the title and I'm like, because they have PlayStation duh
Dont forget Nintendo!
Nintendo controls over 80% of the Japanese market right now.
soulripper31 yeah but the ones who want a higher end gaming experience but can’t afford pc... bam that’s where play station comes in
Cries in Mario Kart...
cries in my dsi and 3ds
I’m just glad the Xbox exists, it gives PlayStation a reason to stay motivated on adding new features and releasing more exclusives for the consumer. We can see how PlayStation has made the decision to release Horizon Zero Dawn on PC to encourage more shifts to PlayStation when new sequels come out on next gen.
Basically, what not to do
Pc?
Yes Xbox can be a tool to make PlayStation better
Sadly, that's the only reason for which xbox exists.
Yeah I agree also I honestly like both console and I have to agree with that 100% just wish their were more console competitors in the market
0:39 dude that's my teacher in the bottom right
Why would japanese people buy an American console when more Americans are choosing to buy Japanese consoles?
A japanese gamer going out of their way to get an Xbox is like a PC gamer going out of their way to use the Epic Games Launcher.
that's an alternative like i would love to get their free games without paying, and never play it
Japan is about mobility they like playing on the go that’s why Nintendo does so well there
This is correct
Nintendo is the most popular and innovative games I think. they had been selected to it before.
Actually mobile gaming on phones dominates more than you'd imagine too. When you make literally billions on one mobile game then you know mobile gaming is something big. I mean even here in the west its huge it was even stated in the video how mobile gaming is going to take and has currently taken a hold on the gaming market. Nintendo is doing well for that but mobile is much larger than that since everyone all over the world owns a smartphone mostly so easy and convenient to game. If you pay attention to the world around you then you can see people gaming on phones more often than you'd imagine.
@@guozhou8114 most popular yes. Innovative? No. The hardware is innovative but most games dont utilize it to its extent.
@@TheCrazierz Some could make the arguement that they are the most innovative in both hardware and games. Hardware most definitely bc Nintendo was the first console developer to standardize the D-Pad during a time over really weird gimmicks on each generation controller and them making moves like the Switch in the console market. How some could argue game-wise is Nintendo along with Sega and Atari kindof forming the basics of games in the early years of game consoles. Nintendo sets trends in the console space even recently with the Wii, inspiring the XBOX Kinect and Playstation Move
I remember last year we actually had a couple of students from Japan who visited our school as part of like a international transfer program that they were part of. We had 2 of the studnets attend class with us all day and one of them happened to be a fan of video games. I asked him if he played Xbox and he gave me like the most confused look because he had never even heard of console lol. He only knows about Playstation and Nintendo, which are of course understandable considering their high reputation in Japan.
what type of bruh moment is that
@@alexanderavila8488 cultural Bruh moment
I guess it make sense why XBox isn't even a thing in Japan
@@poweroffriendship2.0 Because Xbox sucks lol. Nobody wants to pay for a capitalist Box and hear old boomers fan service like teen girls over phil spencer lmao. People got cultural morales.
kids in Japan have a smartphone since when they become age of 13 or 14, and there are plenty of free games available. They just don't look out for game consoles to play games. Consoles (and games) cost them too much.
4:44 why is the SAO in the background??? LOL
Nintendo and PlayStation
Answer: Sony
Nintendo is popular in Japan too
More like Nintendo because they are the most popular brand there.
Nintendo is for fkn casuals
treefiddytwo what’s so wrong with casuals ?
treefiddytwo not TLOZ...
And then stadia came along, and we all laughed at them together.
And that is the future men!! sad but true
Is Stadia really that succesful? Why haven't I heard more from them?
@@dumdum7099 I have heard there ads saying it is free now
@@henriknystrom5488 Ads saying there's a free trial. Base is free as long as you buy the game but limited to 1080p, Pro still costs the same, is like Xbox Games with Gold or PS+ Games, and gets you up to 4K
y'all underestimate stadia.
Because Japan has some standards
"Because JAPAN has some standards"
Your Weeb Wisdom has no limits.
Well done mini-doc #MorePlease
Microsoft:
We can't penetrate the Japanese market.
Apple: Hold my condoms.
🤣
Totally a diff platform overhaul..
oh yeah Im the 69th like
@@RamiHaddadin 🙄
But Apple has failed in India. 1.33 Billion People. Samsung is doing great in India
I’ll Save You 10 Minutes!
It Failed Because Japan Is The Homeland Of Sony Which Owns PlayStation!
Xbox Series X is sold out in South Korea and Japan
McMarris117 It’s gonna fail in the long term
@@oscarperez9783 how?
CaptainRocket60 Because Xbox always fails in Japan every single console generation, look it up
@@oscarperez9783 it different now because of gamepass and Sony terrible censorship of anime game at have Xbox sold out in Japan in 2020
What's soundtrack used in the end?
Its like selling maple syrup to canada
i hate these type of videos, they could literally be answered in one sentence but it takes them 12 minutes to say it
You came in hoping it was a joke. This is a news article.
@@watershipdown we can only hope some people are to lost
Abdel Sayed STFU
@@drugstocope he is just saying what he wants
Once you pass the 11 minute mark in youtube, your videos earn more cash... $$$
Sony = Japan
Microsoft = America
😐
Ps4 sells better than xbox in usa
crazy10bears this generation, who knows about the next, Sony needs to release gameplay or a trailer for the PS5 already
Sony won in Usa also lol,
@@crazy10bears not at current rates.
The X outsold the Pro in the USA
I've had every Playstation except the PS3. I've had every xbox & now own an Xbox Series X. The PS2 & The Xbox 360 are my top 2 game consoles. I was more of a Playstation guy until I seen my friend playing the NCAA2K on the original Xbox & I seen it was actually a more advanced console strictly by comparing it to Nba2k on the PS2. On the PS2 2K only showed pictures at the end of the game, on the xbox they showed actual highlights from the game. That 1 thing blew my mind to see the realism. It played smoother also & graphics were a little better. I got the original xbox close to the end of that generation. I had been playing the PS2 the majority of that time. But the XBOX 360 COMPLETELY BLEW ME AWAY with the graphics, games, & gameplay. I feel like the way the Xbox360 caught up to the PS3 is because they started making games for both platforms. Originally GTA was only for the PS2. A lot of the good figgting games were only for the PS2. Xbox was more for shooters & sports. But XboxLive & Halo is what really connected gamers worldwide instead of just locally. The Dreamcast was in my top 3 game consoles also. The Xbox360 to me was like the Dreamcast 2.0 because it had those same next level graphics & smoothness. I feel like Sony is better for hardware & Microsoft is better for the software which is why it feels smoother
0:27 the only thing i could think of for the rest of the video is why did this guy look down at his keyboard while gaming.
Almost all people in Asia are using PlayStation as I know.
Yep you can't even buy or a game for Xbox in my country lol.
It's true. I don't see any Xbox games on the shelf anymore. All i see are PS4 and Switch.
All my friends like PlayStation except me and one other who like xbox
Same here in mauritius.
Not in India though, Xbox is popular here.
Xbox does terribly anywhere that isn't North America.
Microsoft has been a cancer to the gaming industry since it first came out
At least we kinda got directx out of it :/
True
MrSwitchblade327 true
+ UK/Ireland* XBOX 360 outsold the PS3 here
Well I love both the playstation and xbox and so long as they both continue to exist and thrive I'm happy. I dont care what anyone says but I'm so glad I took a chance and used the rest of my spending money and bought the original xbox even though I already owned a ps2 at that time cuz I immediately fell in love with it and i consider it one of the all time greats. I have a ps4 pro now but when I eventually upgrade to a newer next gen console I'm still unsure whether to go with the newest playstation or xbox.
yap
xbox series x not ps5
Its like using a Macbook in a Microsoft event... oh wait.
Microsoft owns such a large part of mac i don't that matters to them
They should have named the 1st Xbox Godzilla
Or they should named it Xbox pig
Xzilla
Wait can you guys elaborate on what you mean?
@@jyedavies4423 godzilla is famous and anything associated would sell like hotcakes
HITESH ADHIKARI Ohhhh trueee, I thought u were talking about animals cause i forgot what Godzilla was, I’m so sorry 😬 I was literally thinking “wait what why would naming your console after a dinosaur cause copyright issues? And why are they naming them after animals? And pigs???” Anyway, thanks for clearing it up lolol
It’s failed in Japan because they already have Nintendo , Sega and Sony 🎮
Sega stopped making consoles long ago
@@youngmoonyohnj1099 what's sega and why
@@stroberri6649 you don’t know what Sega is? LOL!!! What have you been living in a cave!?! LMAO!!!
the photo at 2:13 LOL
1:02 that's Kasumi from DOA in the background
How small are the Japanese homes that you can’t even fit an Xbox inside
lol
They are actually decent in size....its the newer homes for bachelors and bachelorettes that we see on youtube. I lived there for 3 years....dont believe the hype
That's irrelevant. That bit about Japanese homes being small was just covering up how big and ugly the Xbox looked. To this day, it remains the ugliest console I've ever owned and I've owned stuff starting from the Atari Commodore days. Americans just can'st design decent looking stuff; everything's just big and ugly.
How big are the xboxs that can't fit inside houses
Dan L your basing the whole countries ability to design on a pc company’s first time making a console back in 2002? Jesus Christ that’s idiotic. Look at the Xbox one a or Xbox one x.
because Japan already have their own Gaming Company.
You didn’t even watch the full video, the 360 sold 2.1 million units in Japan. Yes may have not been as good as Sony did, but they still sold them.
@@ecbadboy101 and yet sony is the best.....
Geo Bitez yet, another Sony fanboy. They’ve both got their respectable attributes. Not one is better than the other.
@@ecbadboy101 im not even a fan of sony... even i have one a sony psp and a sony walkman..regarding on its build quality that only asian boys can trust.
@@ecbadboy101 for us asian, sony is the best....
Microsoft should have excluded the first two consoles from japan. The lack of it would have made it more desirable to consumers. People like what they can't have, that's what japan does with some of their products like certain car models in America.
I’m still suspicious, I’d never buy hardware from a software company. Japan has it correct
Software is not the way to go in gaming. You got input lag issues etc... Hardware is the way to go. Not even Windows can run without Hardware. And they think gaming can?
@@Brain_Food- an os can make or break a system with the best hardware poor memory management can make ddr4 act like ddr3
X box wasnt only failed in japan but almost entire Asia
Yeah Asia loves Nintendo sony and pcs
Because Microsoft didn't have the game software that appeals to the Japanese folks.
Yeah that's the fact
It's also failed in Saudi Arabia because you buy xbox and they not have services center if have problems they want sale for you only and no fixed service 😂 Sony have biggest service center here.
The Xbox One, yes. The 360 was actually successful in most of Asia, even had decent sales in Japan.
Bill Gates: _Fine, I'll do it myself._
Thanos confirmed!
Chi chan shut up
😂 Nice Chi Chan!!!
@@powerfulmillionaire2881 Good luck convincing them to delete the comment, kid.
More like. Hey that's a good idea. I'll just take it. The Apple saga is one that best describes the modest if not insignificant insights that Gates possesses. Just like Apple OS Gates cloned the idea and remade it as his own. He saw the Sony Playstation and simply thought.. I can clone once so why not again. I have never understood why people give him such reverence. Completely undeserved in my opinion.
Wtf why are you everywhere?
They didn't capitalized the marketing culture of japan especially when you going up against Sony and Nintendo which is a japanese product who capitalized into the U.S market by being cultural aware and considerate
Also, let's remember MS tried to buy out Nintendo and they were laughed out of the office they were arrogant enough to assume that because Nintendo was not doing well it would be easy to buy out with no consideration to the worldwide fan base and it's loyal consumers so this must have had a negative effect back in Nintendo's home country I mean seriously it must have had an effect on how Japanese consumers saw MS if they pulled this stunt. As much as it was about console size or wariness of MS at the time that must have had some impact on the pick up of MS gaming products in the country at the time and likely has left a nasty taste in the mouths and memories of Japanese gamers as well. And it showed also that MS was being monopolistic as well at that time.
It's like selling burgers to a person that owns McDonald's
I'd still accept Wendys as a McD owner.
I guarantee you that the owners of McDonald's eat better burgers than the cardboard they sell.
More like if a Japanese company opened up a burger joint in the US.
I think gamepass is the new strategy, but 8 don't know how to use it in an analogy
mcdonalds doesn't sell burgers or any type of food but they only sell toxic garbage
1:17 - Winning "second most popular" in a pool of three isn't much of an achievement
Coolius Jeezer Look out, we’ve got a fanboy over here.
zoicite06 the truth is bitter...
RovaTova The fact that fanboys are pathetic?
@@HiThere619 Oopsie OwO looks like I rustled some jimmies ;)
Coolius Jeezer So anyone that points out your stupidity is “rustled”?
0:14 them legs though
I lived in japan over 5 year and when comes to gaming Japanese gamers are loyal to sony. I prefer xbox cause it was my first console.
Microsoft: *doesn't acquire Nintendo*
Also Microsoft: "Why are we failing in Japan?"
the Nintendo PlayStation (sony) would have been a Gaming juggernaught.
it would have outsold XBOX 10:1.
If Xbox continues failing, soon Nintendo will aquire Xbox. But i dont think Nintendo is stupid enough to buy a dying brand.
@@grieverx8670 Yes, because Nintendo has a trillion USD just lying around the place...
@@aidangordon2713 Xbox don't worth trillions of dollars idiot.
Does anyone think that the Xbox followed a similar gaming lifespan as Sega?Ie. Both came out of nowhere to rival big timers and both lasted strong for just a decade and some.