Are Japanese Xbox 360 Fans Getting Screwed?

Kotaku: On October 27, The Idolmaster 2, a pop idol simulator, is being ported to the PS3. The game originally debuted on the Xbox 360 earlier this year.

Like previous Idolmaster games, there's been copious amounts of downloadable content available—for a price.

PS3 owners will be getting a big discount on that price, namely to the tune of free downloadable content being thrown in.

[Cloudberry]

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Bandai Namco Games already screwed some of the 360 owners in Japan with full contents of "Tales Of Vesperia" PS3...

[TotalPS3Fanboy]

Such a thing does NOT exist.

Anyway, this whole generation, Namco have been screwing over real Japanese PS3 fans that do actually exist, so it's a good thing Namco finally "awaken" and join the dark side.

[Neckbear]

"Such a thing does NOT exist."

You'll be surprised at how many neckbeards with a 360 you can find in 2ch...

[Godmars290]

Most of its because the 360 was out first, with MS trying to buy rather than earn popularity. being more concerned about quantity rather than quality.

[WANNAGETHIGH]

Is the 360 even popular in japan :/

[tiffac]

Then Bamco screwed the PS3 English speaking fans by not localizing the PS3 version of ToV.

[KingSlayer]

Aren't Japanese 360 games basically a cash grab until the PS3 version appears?

[zootang]

Apart from Dead Rising :(

[Knushwood Butt]

Yeah.

Microsoft Japan don't fund game development any more so they have a pile of cash sat there for buying timed exclusives.

[NukaCola]

Shut up Kotaku. The 360 has tons of great exclusive titles in JP. The sell poorly and end up making their way elsewhere.

[Emilio_Estevez]

What 360 fans in Japan? The sales of anything xbox in Japan are aweful. It never really took on there.

[KMCROC]

but yet MS keeps flushing money down the drain in that Market, when they can use that money for other markets like Europe & the US.

[gamingdroid]

It's imperative that MS stick with Japan, because despite Japanese games not selling as well anymore, they are still relevant.

It might be a financial success to pull out, but it would be a devastation to the Xbox future business.

[sack_boi]

How is Japan still relevant? the best selling games this gen don't sell at all in Japan and aren't made there either. So please, really, tell me (I hope I'm wrong though). How are they still relevant?

Name one western game (PS3 exclusive, X360 exclusive, whatever) that has sold well there, or one Japanese game (except FFXIII) that has sold well over here.

[tiffac]

You can't make Japan irrelevant the last thing you want is allow Sony to gain the full support of the Japanese developers and start creating exclusive content on the Playstation consoles only.

There are still millions of people worldwide who are loyal fans of Japanese franchises from 3rd party developers.

Oh and just to let you know the BEST selling games this generation are from Japan on the Wii console.

[Fox01]

lol I'm guessing he was talking about the PS3 and the X360. And he's right, Japan is pretty irrelevant on those platforms.

[Roper316]

@ sack_boi

MGS4

GT5

both are multi million sellers last time I checked. So that is at least 2 with out really any thought put into it.

[OllieBoy]

*snickers*

[CrescentFang]

I would like some of these JP 360 games... I wish publishers would make it region-free, I mean the niche games that are already on the 360 aren't leaving Japan anyway... More money for them?

[firemassacre]

que? 360 fanaticos el japan?

[Ashriel]

japanese 360 owners get screwed all the time :/

[Der_Kommandant]

20 Japanese guys screwed

[Emilio_Estevez]

Lets keep it PG man.

[darfreeze]

LMAO.

[Redempteur]

Nobody is crying ..

Idolmaster fans are too busy watching the anime and getting their limited editions to CARE and most of them have a PS3 anyway .. ( why do you thing Last remnant PS3 is still in the most wanted in famitsu .. ???)

[Hifist1]

All xbox -fanboys are getting screwed. :D I mean where's the games. What are you guys playing? Oh, at least you got your "superior" pay to play online. :p

[GoldPS3]

There's not many Japanese 360 fans out there. You already screwed yourself by buying a 360 from the beginning. I screwed myself by buying one and all it gave me was sadness. 360 never made me happy.

[Roper316]

I would say MS screws everyone regardless of country. That would be MS's rule of NO FREE DLC. Just look @ Valve with L4D, all the dlc was free on steam and MS forced them to charge for it on XBL.

As a gamer I own a 360 for its occasional exclusive. As a consumer I only buy MS product when there is no other option just because I know they charge or charge twice as much for what their competition offers for free or a lesser price.

So yes 360 gamers got, get and will continue to be screwed by MS until they hit MS where it counts, in their pocket book or wallet.

[Parapraxis]

Oh Kotaku, you never cease to make me want to vomit with your blatant MS love and Sony hate.
These chumps at Kotaku wouldn't know "balanced & un-biased" if they were to take a 2 year course on it.

[kreate]

its partly becuz of michael mcwhertor.
he does a good job at hiding his xbox fanboyism. but u can catch him sometime.

[Ddouble]

323 dollars worth of DLC! WoW and we complain about Capcom.

[synce]

Kotaku is a joke. According to that weeaboo no one is getting screwed when there's $300 worth of dlc, but port the game to ps3 and here comes the bitching. if you bought all that dlc you don't care, you've spent thousands on stupid animu figures since