At the recent IGB Japan live event, Sarah Bond, Vice President of Xbox Game Ecology, said that the company will offer more original Japanese games for Xbox. Her speech was transcribed by foreign media outlet VideoGamesChronicle as follows
"One of the things I'm really excited about is that the number of developers working on games for Xbox in Japan is now over 250. We've already released 150 games, 100 of which are on Game Pass, and we recently announced 15 games developed in Asia, 13 of which were developed by the Japanese team. We have a lot of games out, but we will be releasing more in the future, and I can't wait to share these new games with you."
This is in line with recent comments made by Xbox boss Phil Spencer during the Tokyo Game Show 2022. In an interview with Game Watch, Spencer said that he and the Xbox team are aware that both the local Japanese and Western markets want more original Japanese games on Xbox. He cited Xbox’s partnership with Kojima Productions — whose studio Spencer visited while attending the Tokyo Game Show — to bring a new Hideo Kojima game to Xbox.
According to VGChartz, the Xbox Series S game console has outsold Sony’s PlayStation 5 in Japan during the September 9-18 period, the third time Microsoft has outsold Sony’s PS5 in the Japanese market.
