Two shoot'em'ups for Xbox One, from Moss and Qute

[Soundwave]

I'm still completely confused as to why these companies are developing for the XBOX One. The machine has sold abysmally in Japan. What's the point?

I'm certainly in no position to buy an xbone at the moment. Fortunately the machine is region free this time around...

I fail to see the point either this time those opening sales figures in Jpn were shocking

I thought the 360 was Region Free too...wasn't it?
It was the manufacturer who decided to implement region locking in the game code itself & not the hardware or am I wrong there?

Neil

[Kron]

I'm still completely confused as to why these companies are developing for the XBOX One. The machine has sold abysmally in Japan. What's the point?

I'm certainly in no position to buy an xbone at the moment. Fortunately the machine is region free this time around...

The PS3 sold more than the 360 in Japan too yet the shmups that saw release on both consoles sold considerably more on the Microsoft platform. Localised install base has very little to do with it.

If it's anything like last generation if it wasn't for Microsoft these titles would never even get made.

I fail to see the point either this time those opening sales figures in Jpn were shocking

I thought the 360 was Region Free too...wasn't it?
It was the manufacturer who decided to implement region locking in the game code itself & not the hardware or am I wrong there?

Neil

It's the other way around, The machine was technically region locked but developers could apply to have the final disc mastered as region free.

[briareos_kerensky]

I'm still completely confused as to why these companies are developing for the XBOX One. The machine has sold abysmally in Japan. What's the point?

A lot of arcade cabinets run Taito X2s and derivates, essentially a PC with an embedded version of WinXP, so I guess that porting games to MS consoles would be much easier than others. And probably MS is easing production costs for these initial titles from Japanese developers for the Japanese market.

[baad bwoy]

Think I'm starting to lean toward wanting an Xbox one. Not sure how I can fit it under the telly with the ps4 and wii u though.

[Team Andromeda]

I'm still completely confused as to why these companies are developing for the XBOX One. The machine has sold abysmally in Japan. What's the point?

I wouldn imagine anyone buying a 360 or XBox One in Japan is a far more serious game and would be more inclined to buy a shooter as even in Japan shooters are now a niche genre . Anyway great news and nice to see more shooters coming to next gen .

[dataDave]

This is the sort of stuff the XB1 needs to boost my interest. Unfortunately there's not enough on it yet to get me worked up enough to pester the wife for one. Same goes for the PS4.

[CMcK]

Trailer - http://youtu.be/wy7y8zeHUuI

Disappointing really considering there is no gameplay footage.

[fuse]

And here's a teaser for Natsuki

[dvdx2]

I'm wondering if these shooters will actually use the greater processing power of the xbox one, or they are only on the format to get something new on the machine?

Qute are a fantastic developer; not too fussed on the japanese schoolgirl marketing/style of ginga force (or this new one either), but i'm sure it will be great. Moss shooters are great too. Could sway me towards buying the console.