View Full Version : This is why the 360 won't do well in Japan
Zoglog
11-17-2005, 01:28 PM
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/hard-gay-man/hard-gay-character-in-taito-game-137830.php#viewcomments
See! it's so simple, different strokes for different folks!
http://outpostnine.com/Az/hard-gay.jpg
http://outpostnine.com/Az/313334.jpg
Stuff like this and Cho Aniki is what gets em really riled up! oh yeah and dating sims D:
Spoon_si
11-17-2005, 01:35 PM
they are still decade ahead of the US in terms of technology...
I been to Tokyo about a yr . ago.. you'll be surprize how advance everything is there...
but yea.. there pop culture is kinda wack... saw some cosplay walking around... cental tokyo... thought that was kinda koooool...
I can name more than a few places that are ahead of US in tech..
The X360 right now has little Japanese support. For the next several months there are enough good games coming out on PS2 for anyone to care about X360. For example the super robt taisen is a poplar series that apperaed in most recent console, but have yet to see any kind of Xbox release.
MadFlava
11-17-2005, 02:01 PM
Yup, some of the most popular series in Japan haven't been announce for Xbox yet. Things could change around in a heartbeat if Xbox could get Dragon Quest 9 to be a 360 exclusive. Remember, Playstation really took off when FF7 jumpship to the PS1. After that, all the other titles that were "exclusive" to Nintendo jumped ship also.
paramount
11-17-2005, 02:58 PM
It's really not a matter that Japan is more technologically advanced, it is that they have a greater amount of integration with the consumer market. Couple that with the fact that the population is about 2.3 times less than the US and it is easy to see how Japan is more technologically integrated. In regards to why the Xbox 360 has an uphill climb in Japan; it is the same reason US businesses have problems penetrating the Japanese market period. Japanese consumers are nationalistic when it comes to purchasing and the culture has different interests than the US insofar as products go. Microsoft can't do much about the former, but they are gambling on overcoming it with 360 exclusive titles that should draw the masses like Enchant Arm and Ninety-Nine Nights. The only problem is that the system seems like it is off to a rocky start considering the status of those games. Only time will tell how Microsoft pursues the Japanese market.
Zoglog
11-18-2005, 02:40 PM
wow you guys tottally don't respect Hado Gei