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ZhugeEX on 14 April 2016
weaveworld said:

Nice work!

I didnt't finish reading yet though. I could hardly spot any console on sale in China during my 1.5 month visit which included Guangzhou and Shenzhen. (Although i cant really judge Shenzhen) In Guangzhou i spotted one, almost lost, stack of Xboxes somewhere.

Or is it just the size of the country and its cities that seems to be the problem here?

 

Well distribution is mostly online, but plenty of retailers do stock it. Usually the upper class style retailer like suning. Otherwise you will find them in small independant shops being sold. There are also some Sony stores (ran by Sony and franchise) that sell it too.

Like this one for example- http://i.imgur.com/ymxM5kX.jpg 



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chao2344 on 15 April 2016

Thanks for the contributions ZhugeEX. Big fan of your work btw!

 

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Some articles from this week

China's Mobile Games Market Is Growing Up

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisachanson/2016/04/14/chinas-mobile-games-market-is-growing-up/#15f657d73605

Games audio specialist Side expands in China

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-04-13-games-audio-specialist-side-expands-to-china

The Three Factors Driving China's Indie Revolution

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/HaoWu/20160414/270372/The_Three_Factors_Driving_Chinas_Indie_Revolution.php

CMGE to be Purchased for RMB6.524Bn

http://www.gamegyro.com/?p=2017



KazumaKiryu on 15 April 2016
ZhugeEX said:
So I just finished my in depth report on Sony's first year in China. Please take a look-

https://zhugeex.com/2016/04/sony-celebrates-one-year-of-playstation-in-china-report/

good work again !! very interesting !!!!

what do you think - Final Fantasy 15, Persona 5 and PSVR are coming in china someday?



ZhugeEX on 15 April 2016
KazumaKiryu said:
ZhugeEX said:
So I just finished my in depth report on Sony's first year in China. Please take a look-

https://zhugeex.com/2016/04/sony-celebrates-one-year-of-playstation-in-china-report/

good work again !! very interesting !!!!

what do you think - Final Fantasy 15, Persona 5 and PSVR are coming in china someday?

Final Fantasy 15 will be coming to China at the same time as West. (It's in the article :P)

In fact KingsGlaive will premiere in China this June at Shanghai Film Festival. That's before Japan btw.


PS VR is also confirmed for China.

 

No word on Persona 5 but there is an Asian version.  



DEAD_ORIGINAL on 15 April 2016
outlawauron said:
DEAD_ORIGINAL said:

Read the blog good well written, intresting that Fuze console has the same controller as Xbox, and neither Xbox or Playstation are making much of an impact.

While the numbers are small relatively the population of the country, but you have to understand that official sales aren't a old thing for China. For all purposes, it'a new untapped market for consoles. We'll see a lot of growth it as time goes.

Wouldnt be amazing to see China sell 50 million PS4's or Xbox One's.



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DEAD_ORIGINAL on 15 April 2016
ZhugeEX said:
KazumaKiryu said:

good work again !! very interesting !!!!

what do you think - Final Fantasy 15, Persona 5 and PSVR are coming in china someday?

Final Fantasy 15 will be coming to China at the same time as West. (It's in the article :P)

In fact KingsGlaive will premiere in China this June at Shanghai Film Festival. That's before Japan btw.


PS VR is also confirmed for China.

 

No word on Persona 5 but there is an Asian version.  

Are these versions likely to highly edited, as i always thought China Goverment have to approve first?



ZhugeEX on 15 April 2016
DEAD_ORIGINAL said:
ZhugeEX said:

Final Fantasy 15 will be coming to China at the same time as West. (It's in the article :P)

In fact KingsGlaive will premiere in China this June at Shanghai Film Festival. That's before Japan btw.


PS VR is also confirmed for China.

 

No word on Persona 5 but there is an Asian version.  

Are these versions likely to highly edited, as i always thought China Goverment have to approve first?

 

Depends. Most of time a game can be approved without nothing needing to be changed. But sometimes they ouright deny it which means either they cannot release the game, or need to change the contents of the game and resubmit. 

All games officially released in China today have no edits to them as far as I'm aware except for Halo MCC which removed some blood effect I believe. 



DEAD_ORIGINAL on 15 April 2016
ZhugeEX said:
DEAD_ORIGINAL said:

Are these versions likely to highly edited, as i always thought China Goverment have to approve first?

 

Depends. Most of time a game can be approved without nothing needing to be changed. But sometimes they ouright deny it which means either they cannot release the game, or need to change the contents of the game and resubmit. 

All games officially released in China today have no edits to them as far as I'm aware except for Halo MCC which removed some blood effect I believe. 

Yeah i thought it was mainly viloent games that were edited, do we have software charts aswell?



ZhugeEX on 15 April 2016
DEAD_ORIGINAL said:
ZhugeEX said:

 

Depends. Most of time a game can be approved without nothing needing to be changed. But sometimes they ouright deny it which means either they cannot release the game, or need to change the contents of the game and resubmit. 

All games officially released in China today have no edits to them as far as I'm aware except for Halo MCC which removed some blood effect I believe. 

Yeah i thought it was mainly viloent games that were edited, do we have software charts aswell?

Not really. 

It's very hard to get any sort of data on software or hardware sales in China because there is no POS tracking service. 

 

I get data from 1 retailer each month but that's hardly enough to draw any conclusions. Especially as the sales are in the hundreds. 



DEAD_ORIGINAL on 15 April 2016
ZhugeEX said:
DEAD_ORIGINAL said:

Yeah i thought it was mainly viloent games that were edited, do we have software charts aswell?

Not really. 

It's very hard to get any sort of data on software or hardware sales in China because there is no POS tracking service. 

 

I get data from 1 retailer each month but that's hardly enough to draw any conclusions. Especially as the sales are in the hundreds. 

Shame really, i wanna know what games are popular in China.