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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shapermc" data-source="post: 536397" data-attributes="member: 9007">The console war is over Game Boy wins.  Seriously.  It out sells any system to date.I would love to see that report.  You can email it to me at <a href="mailto:mwmson@hotmail.com">mwmson@hotmail.com</a> if you can't post it.  I love reading this stuff <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  While I dont know if your impling that there was no option when it was released or if there is no option now, I am assuming the second.  There is a smaller (s - model) Xbox controller out now.  It was not released at the same time as the Xbox in america, but it was for the Japan release.  Now it is actually sold with the Xbox as opposed to the larger one. Why?  Serioulsy japan could have had Xbox 2 months to a year early from America and it would not have made a difference.  Look at Metal Gear Solid 2.  It was released in America 2 months before Japan (Konami took a huge risk with doing that too) and it still sold better than expected in Japan.  It honestly has to do with alot of thought by the Japanese market that an American company has to prove that they can get good games out there.  So far most of the games that have done well on the Xbox were games that did poorly in Japan on the Dreamcast.  JSRF is a prime example of this.  JSR for the DC did much better in US sales than Japan even thought DC had less than half the installed user base that Japan had.  Same goes for Crazy Taxi and House of the Dead.  Also if you look at howmany sports games there are for the Xbox you will see that most of them are Football (US football) and that those games do really poorly in Japan.Also one of the largest selling points of Xbox in america is Halo.  Halo did not do well in Japan because it is a FPS game (one of the worst selling kind of games because guns are outlawed in Japan).  So the Uber game for the system only fell into a niche market in japan.  Also SOA (Sega of America) has a larger advertising budget in america (one of the few companies like this).  This means that SOA also spends more time when they take a Jap game and add extras for the US version and fix bugs.  I can go on like this for a while about why Xbox did not do as well in Japan, but I will turn over to why it will start doing alot better.  Xbox Live and Panzer Dragoon Orta.  Online console gaming has always been more popular in Japan (tons of DC games lost the budget to get them converted over to the US with Multiplayer online accessability due to the lack of expected increased revenu).  If Xbox live hits home in Japan (Where PS2 has and still is falling short) then the Xbox sales will double to tripple in no time.  Why do you think that games like Panzer Dragoon Orta and Steel Batallion (Games which mainly will apeal to the Jap market) are comming out around the same time as Live?  Also the fighting games that I have mentioned before (MvC2 and CvS2) will drag in a huge Japan audience.Microsoft knew that the console war was over before they entered it.  They have been batteling for 2nd place the whole time.  This is why they are putting so much money into it.  Who ever comes out on top (between M$ and the Big N) will have the best chance in the next consel war.  [/rant]</blockquote>

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