Xbox Backwards compatable games announced for 360

Well the good news is that I can finally play Ninja Gaiden, assuming the XBOX 360 lasers are up to it...
This is yet another slap in the face for your Japanese consumer. MS just wants to fail again. Given this initial effort, I wouldn't be surprised if they continued not to fully support the 360 in Japan.

Just lazy is another way of looking at it! 12 Games, that is just pathetic...

 

I'm glad that the Japanese consumers (no offense to anyone here) are finally getting slapped for once when it comes to something video game related. The US has been repeatedly and consistently screwed over by the Japanese game companies. Hardly any RPG's in the early days were brought over here. We never get any of the special releases/bonuses that they do either.

 

well the difference is that you seem to care when the japanese are apparently indifferent to the xbox.

 

Japanese game companies don't screw over the west. It is just no-one picks up the rights to publish them, and you can see why, good translations take ages. As for the special items, that is just something you don't get in the west, why would the japanese companies bring it over when western companies don't do it for the native audience.

The xbox could not be more against popular japanese gaming, no-one in Japan is going to care about the xbox (probably not the 360) not because MS is screwing them over, but because what xbox is offering is incompatable with the Japanese games market.

Lots of my Japanese friends are hard gamers and they could not care less about the xbox360 at the moment and most of the serious japanese games forums are vaguelly indifferent. You can't blame MS for not trying that hard to enter the market, they just don't want to look like they are failing anywhere, it is important from the pr perspective. MS keep saying they are tying to break into the Japanese market, then doing nothing, it is all pr for the west IMHO.