I'm not even sure how to respond to you anymore, tbh.
By getting me contact information and a Japanese translator ...
You're telling me game companies won't port games from PC to Xbox because it costs $$$. I'm saying they don't even have to give me anything up front, and I'll do it for 50% of revenue generated.
If Nier Automata came to Xbox digitally only, how many copies would you wager it would sell? Even at a reduced price of $30 in the West.
Microsoft takes 30% off the top and I get 50% of the remainder? Those sound like good numbers to me.
Initial costs of investment on my part: time, Xbox One dev kit
Given the PC source code and assests for a game and time, I'm sure I could get it done.
This is all assuming that the ENTIRE reason devs don't release on Xbox is because porting their PC version to Xbox would cost them too much.
Personally, I don't think that's the reason...
Maybe he's a nigerian prince.
No.
I mean, maybe Nigerian Princes can also be software developers, but I'm not.
I'm just a regular old developer from New Orleans procrastinating on GAF when I should be prototyping a new feature.
This armchair publisher/businessman shit is getting pretty sad now. Those publishers have been around for a while now and if they haven't released titles on Xbox before, they have access to the numbers other games have sold on it, so this ridiculous idea that they have no clue what they're doing by avoiding Xbox and that there's so much money left on the table is some deluded shit. I don't even remember the Wii U third party support threads getting this bad.
Honestly, I agree with you.
It seems to me there has to be some reason... Some extenuating circumstance that prevents companies from targeting the Xbox, even digitally only.
For all I know, Microsoft has some contractual clause mandating that if another console gets a physical release then the Xbox must also.
For the super niche games, maybe it does make sense to skip Xbox.
But for the bigger Japanese games with SE and Atlus that are localized for the west... I don't know why they would skip Xbox.