That won't fix it.by making a deal for $xxx for a digital-only port for gamepass.
Phil talked about this on giantbomb @ e3
So MS is going to throw money at every Japanese game? No.
These Japanese developers are going to willing let expensive games in development go on Game Pass day one? No. Especially when they can make bank selling on other consoles in their home region.
I don't think you understand the problem. The Japanese market doesn't care about Xbox thus Japanese developers don't. Some can be bought to make late ports but that doesn't solve the issue.
The solution would be getting Persona 6, Yakuza 7, etc on xbox same day as all platforms
Those games won't go to Game Pass day one. Japanese developers won't do that because they need to make money and quite frankly they already know they can make that money on PlayStation and Nintendo so why risk it?
They won't get satisfactory Japanese developer support until the Japanese market, the one Japanese developers mostly cater to outside of popular IPs in the west like FF, Until the Japanese market forces Japanese devs to care about Xbox
Chicken and the egg really. Idk if they can ever solve it.
Nintendo has a bit console right now that is getting good third party support and indies but even it still has holdouts like EA with anytbing not FIFA and Activision with COD, Take Two with RDR2. I imagine the situation plays out like this for Xbox and Japanese games. I mean heck, Square won't even make KH 1-2 for Xbox despite 3 coming
This also doesn't account for Japanese games selling worse on Xbox than PlayStation and Nintendo. Even if the games went to Game Pass and were talking about late ports here, that doesn't guarantee the Xbox base buys in to something they haven't been exposed too