Do you remember the NES era? Do you remember how hard it was to finish Kabuki Quantum Fighter?
I certainly remeber those days, and I remember one thing especially. When the credits rolled all these weird japanese names popped up. I live in Norway, and I`m used to all foreign entertainment (games, movies) coming from us or uk mostly. But same thing happened with Metroid 1. And as the child I was, I thought; "hey, those chinese people ain`t bad at making video-games at all."
Then I learned about Shigeru Miyamoto when starting to read video-game magazines; "Cool man. He really made many of the games I like. And he`s japanese? Japanese? Ninja`s and that stuff. That`s japanese."
Basically, over the years I`ve learned and experienced that making good games don`t depend on which country you`re from. What`s important to me is that the games are well developed. I`ve played gems from US, UK and Nippon.
But it has been spoken much of this word "fanboyism" the last years. So I wonder; Is fanboyism starting to be a nationalism thing to many out there, or is it already? Do western people (US, Europe) prefer xbox because it`s western made, and Eastern (Japan, China to mention the biggest) prefer PS3 and Wii?
Surely there are people like me that doesn`t care where the games are developed. And it is a matter of taste, but do you feel supporting the games/console that`s developed closest to your culture? And why?
Thanks for reading
