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Phil Spencer: "It would be nice to buy a Japanese studio"
And this is interesting: "Phil Spencer admits that the spending spree is by no means over"
This news means less to me now as I traded in my Xbox today, haha.
MS may be able to buy up a smaller JDev studio. But I have a hard time seeing any of the bigger, more established JDev studios willing to be bought out by MS and thus eliminate the majority of their fanbase ( PS4 and Switch owners ). It's a bit of a Catch-22, but the reality is that Xbox sells almost nonexistantly ( if that's a word ) in Japan, and multiplat JDev games probably sell less on Xbox compared to the other platforms.
And the overall install base of the X1 is smaller, with the PS4 outselling it more than 2-to-1 now. And with the way Switch is selling, it will most likely catch up and surpass X1 sales in short order. And the combined install base of both PS4 and Switch players is much larger compared to the smaller base of X1 players. So, I have a hard time seeing a JDev willing to give up that much larger install base to produce games exclusively for the smaller base.
The market just isn't really there for those kind of games on Xbox. I mean, just look at the live crowd reaction when Tales of Arise was revealed at Xbox E3 show. it was like 1 or 2 people clapping.....lol. I'm interested in that stuff, and I know there are other Xbox owners who are. But we clearly aren't in the majority.........lol.
Which is why I don't blame MS for not trying the hardest to court the JDev market ( though they have been making more effort recently ) or JDevs for skipping out on Xbox entirely.
Just look at Blazblue Cross Tag, for example. Previous Blazblue games did appear on 360 and X1. And there's no reason, from a hardware/tech view, why Cross Tag couldn't come to the X1, when it came on the Switch. And PC via Steam ( I think ). And of course PS4. basically everywhere except Xbox.
