{"id":2933,"date":"2001-01-18T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-18T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/01\/18\/no-japanese-support-for-x-box\/"},"modified":"2001-01-18T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-18T14:49:00","slug":"no-japanese-support-for-x-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/no-japanese-support-for-x-box\/","title":{"rendered":"No Japanese support for X-Box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/gamespot\/stories\/news\/0,10870,2675317,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">GameSpot<\/a> has confirmed that contrary to previous announcements, Koei&#8217;s Kessen III historical war simulation game will be released on the Playstation 2 but not on Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Xbox console system. This potential bodes ominous for the American Xbox system as this leaves Konami the only confirmed Japanese third-party developer officially committed to supporting the system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecity.com\/business\/flotation\/343\/game011101.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Magic Box<\/a> has reported that Forbes Magazine has published articles predicting less than break-through success for the Xbox, citing poor third party game developer support and a lack of quality launch titles, and a slim possibility for great Christmas sales due to the small established user base resulting from the system&#8217;s debut this fall.  A lack of support from Japanese game developers will almost certainly doom the system in Japan, the world&#8217;s capitol for console video gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameSpot has confirmed that contrary to previous announcements, Koei&#8217;s Kessen III historical war simulation game will be released on the Playstation 2 but not on Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Xbox console system. This potential bodes ominous for the American Xbox system as this leaves Konami the only confirmed Japanese third-party developer officially committed to supporting the system. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}