Tecmo backing Xbox 2, but what's that about the PS3?

360 News | Looks like Microsoft will grab one Japanese developer.

In a strange twist among Japanese developers, it seems Tecmo will be backing Microsoft’s future console endeavours.

When Tecmo president Junji Nakamura's was asked about the progress of Tecmo's next-generation software development, Nakamura said that "There's not much information from Sony. The situation with Microsoft is very different."

Nakamura was optimistic about Microsoft's fortunes in the next generation of consoles. "I expect that they'll be able to use their experience of the current machine's failure to succeed," he said, "even in this country."

What is even stranger however, is Nakamura comments regarding the upcoming PS3, “The CPU was developed for a next-generation game machine, but the hardware is conceived by an appliance manufacturer," he said "I feel that they're probably trying to use games as a way to increase their power in the home appliance industry." It seems Nakamura has concerns that the PS3 will be the ultimate home entertainment system, rather than a dedicated gaming system.

Microsoft to succeed over in Japan? … Well stranger things have happened.

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11 Comments

TransgenicX

8 years ago

whats tecmo lmao, what games did they do? nothing great i bet.

armageddon12

8 years ago

DoA3, and Ninja Gaiden are some recent examples of their success. Both garnered some critical acclaim. Both I found great fun (until my brother lost my save file on Ninja Gaiden).

Get your facts straight next time.

Not much of a suprise that Tecmo are backing the Xbox 2.

David

8 years ago

They did Dead or Alive 2.1, Uh, I mean DOA 3. DOA volleyball, Ninja Gaiden with Ryu from DOA (the only really good game that is not just a rehash of a DC game), and soon they're releasing DOA2 again as DOA ultimate.

Anyway, of course they'd say this, they backed a LOSER this generation, so they have to pretend it was about the future. It's like how Microsoft pretends they MEANT to make a US 4 Billion dollar loss on the xb. It's saving face when the reality is xb is the biggest failure financially in the console world by a factor of 10 (since it's lost more then 10 times the ammount that the next most loss making console, the Sega saturn, which 'only' lost 300 million)

Source on Sega's losses on the Saturn

http://www.emulationstation.com/systemlist.asp?ID=19

ObsoletE

8 years ago

TransgenicX wrote

whats tecmo lmao, what games did they do? nothing great i bet.

you sir, are a twat, and this anti-XBox commentary is getting old...

Tecmo made current gen game such as:
Ninja Gaiden
Dead or Alive
Fatal Frame
Gungriffon

Shiny

8 years ago

Does anyone else think it's strange how he firstly says

"There's not much information from Sony."

And then immediately jumps to the conclusion that the PS3 must be bad because it must have home appliance focus.

Noogle

8 years ago

Tecmo and specifically Team Ninja never made a secret of it that they want to work on the most powerful hardware there is, hence the support for the Xbox. While it's still up in the air which will be more powerful in the next-gen battle, the Xbox Next is a sure bet for top contender.

It's also worth remembering that the Xbox Next is likely to get the first set of dedication from developers and publishers as it wants to be the first console to be released. Besides, Sony are too hard at work promoting the PSP to worry about the PS3 right now - when it comes they will develop for it. Let's just hope its not another convergence nightmare, but the company has learned its lessons with the PSX.

Ditto on the anti-Xbox retoric. I'm not a big Xbox fan, but comments like the one futher above smacks of the general ignorance gamers appear to have about what happens around them.

David

8 years ago

What do you mean by further above?

If you mean my post then you're dead wrong, and you're the one who's ignorant.

If not, sorry(?)

TransgenicX

8 years ago

i doubt sony cares about tecmo, they are a nobdy developer compared to the huge names sony has.

Quin

8 years ago

TransgenicX wrote

i doubt sony cares about tecmo, they are a nobdy developer compared to the huge names sony has.

Fanboy...sense...tingling...

ObsoletE

8 years ago

i'm still trying to work out where his fanboy loyalties lie...

when he started it seemed to be Nintendo, now he's championing Sony...

maybe he's not a fanboy at all, but rather a Hateboy

TransgenicX

8 years ago

i like both sony and nintendo, hate microsoft

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