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mrstickball said:
To be fair though......

It's just wierd (atleast for a yank) to see training game # 5,000 sell for 1m copies on everything.

You can complain about our every-year iteneration of Madden and NCAA, but to be fair, they have Winning Eleven X and Powerful Pro Baseball - they come out once or twice a year and never have I heard anyone take issue with them.

My problem is that the good games don't sell well in Japan - Xbox 360 games, PS2 JRPGs (Odin Sphere, Persona 3), Western games, and such.

Whereas in the US, everything that is a good game, generally sells well. We don't like rehashed Tales of Games, and JRPGs don't sell as well - but generally, things just always do well in the US.

It's not like we're upset their tastes don't mimic US/European fare, but desiring repeat and repeat of $10 stupidit training games just gets old. Yes, shooters get over-sold, but atleast they have story and gameplay. No one would get upset if Japan was the land of the platformers and every game played like Mario, right?

The obvious problem here is that you assume, as a baseline, that Training games are stupid. You use that word specifically. That... obviously skews your viewpoint. You see that, right? Because I don't agree with you. I would much rather play Brain Training than, say, The Darkness.