Why japanese market rejects western games?

[Riachu]

noname2200 said:

bdbdbd said:
@Noname: I don't think western publishers have ever pushed their games in Japan, so despite your comment being true, the phenomenon goes deeper than that.

And you forgot Dragon Quest.

Yes I did. And I have no idea how, since I meant to type that in first. *sigh*

And some Western companies *have* actually pushed their stuff in Japan, from what I've read. The most notable example of this is Grand Theft Auto, whose San Andreas installment (at least) received a pretty large advertising campaign on its release. The results were about 100,000 units sold. Not horrendous, I suppose, but not spectacular either. I'll see if I can scrounge up some of the other examples I've read about.

 

Axtually, it was more like 400K sold