"Console gaming is dead in Japan" - Reasons and Solutions

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RolStoppable said:

noname2200 said:

RolStoppable said:

Since when do we need hard data to prove a point? Reason number one was merely there to distract a little from the main reason which is that the PSP is doing what a console does and therefore people hesitate to buy another device that's exactly delivering the same, minus portability.

Your conclusion seems to be the same as mine.

Forgot we're on a forum.

I AM curious, though, if anyone actually has those numbers available...

And yeah, we both reach about the same conclusion, but I emphasize less the "it's good enough" part. Why, for instance, would the Japanese have lower graphical needs than the West, especially when they're allegedly more in high-tech stuff than we are? Also, a console has more capabilities than a handheld in most ways, including multi-media. It's not even so much a matter of "consoles can do things handhelds can't," it includes a bit of "consoles can do almost everything handhelds can, but they can do it better."

Granted, none of these matter so much if portability is the ultimate value in Japan, but that's kind of why I want to see that data at some point. I suspect that that part, like almost all the other Truths Of The Internet, is overstated. IF I'm correct, then we're basically back to square one...

Looking back on my two posts in this thread, I need to stop doing stream of consciousness. :-/

I think I listed a good reason why it can be "good enough" for Japan but not in the rest of the world. All the popular Japanese genres can be made in sufficient form on a handheld, while for example FPS games which are important over here, can't be done. Besides, how many games sold well in Japan because they were technological masterpieces? I am not talking about games that happened to have great graphics, but games that sold primarly on being graphical heavyweights.

 

MGS4.

Anime are still popular in Japan and any anime like game tends to sell well ( that's why every new FF does well, it's a new anime show that comes every few years except you get to play in it..)