twesterm on 21 September 2009
| Kenryoku_Maxis said: Arcades in America have been dying for years. Now you can only find them in big cities. Heck, even on the west coast in cities like LA, San Diego and San Fransisco they're going out of business. People can just find the majority of the games they bring over on consoles. And the few they can't aren't as big as something like a DDR use to be. I can remember when Soul Calibur II was coming out, and no Arcade was picking it up. That's how bad Arcades had gotten, and that was 8 years ago. In Asia, they're still big. Even bigger in other Asian countries outside of Japan like China, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. And there's no question why, when they get WAY more games. But also, some of those countries don't have as much focus on console gaming as we do. |
How is the internet in places in Asia? Do a lot of people have broadband there?
I imagine that's why arcades are more or less dead in America (I don't know why they're still popular in Japan other than they love things like the OP's game that you can't really do at home) is because you can get the social gaming experience at home now.
