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Hello and welcome to the official Xbox podcast, the only podcast coming to you from

inside Xbox.

All right, if you're watching the show in the Western Hemisphere, you may have slept through some pretty cool stuff.

Overnight, last night, the Xbox Tokyo Games Show 2024 broadcast took place.

There was a lot of cool stuff. There's even stuff you can play right now. So we've got a special show. We've got a special background with an animated cat. The only one I'm not allergic to you, and a special guest,

Mennakato joining us from Xbox Japan.

Menna, thanks so much for joining us.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do for Xbox.

Well, first of all, thank you for having me.

I am the leader for the Japan Partnership team at Xbox.

And what I do is I bring the great third party games onto Xbox.

And for me, personally, I've been in the game

industry for over 20 years, almost close to 25.

And I've done everything from platform business development to product development and I'm here

supporting Xbox and our third-party partners. Well, thank you so much for that. I just want to ask you a question before we get into it I'm lucky

enough I get to go to Japan from time to time I was there over the last Christmas and

it always just strikes me like how prevalent gaming it seems to be in society.

Like why do you think that is?

Well, first of all, I think the culture itself

is of all about details and craftsmanship,

and everyone loves everything Japanese right

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