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invetedlotus123 on 23 October 2009
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SuperAdrianK said:
invetedlotus123 said:
I think that gaming market is going to have a look for new markets after all this. Japanese sales are TERRIBLE and only big name games and some surprise sleepers get good sales, overall sales are just terrible. Wii expanded the gaming market in a demographic way, now it's time to expand it in a Geographic way.

China is already the biggest market for MMO's and with time it will have a huge share of PC gaming market, I doubt consoles could have much sucess there,though.

Latin America is already becoming considerable, Brazil alone moved 500million dollars from PC and Console gaming last year, pretty good considering it used to be just 80 million 10 years ago. And projections shows that with the right investments Brazil alone could move 3 billion dollars yearly in the next 15 years

And there are many other countries with great growth in their gaming markets, India, Russia, Eastern Europe, The Asian Tigers and etc. And all of them have big population, like China, if just 10% of the population(just guessing) can afford gaming, it's already 130 million potential costumers!

I think the new gaming regions will be something like America(including both, Latin America and US and Canada), Europe(including Eastern Europe and Russia), Asia(maybe already including Japan this time) and Others(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Middle East and Etc.) in the next 20 years.

This is really hard imo, not only will the specific consumer will have to like it, but every other specific consumers will have to like it to... though this would work if every big shot gaming company or develapors are in every reigon and could make big games then it could work :/

Developers don't need to be in the country to have their games released there, it should be pretty costly to open that many of local companies. They just need to look for partners in those countries to at least have their games officially exported to there. Like, in Japan many games from western companies are published by japanese companies, like, 007 was published by S-E, Spike distributed Oblivion, Capcom gta iv and go on. 

 

It would be pretty good for those countries to develop their games as well, cultural identification is pretty important. Sure those countries would still consuming Japanese, Europeans and americans games, in pretty good amounts. So, it would be the best thing to big publishers come officially, and open local studios for development and adapting for the internal market and publish games from outside. 

 

Note: Probably low-end games would be done in this kind of country, since the salary is much lower than in developed country...

 

Edit:Of course all this change wouldn't happen in just one year, it should be a plan involving all companies interested, deals with local governments, constructing factories, and would be complete in just 20 or more years, but they need to start sometime, gaming can't be pratically exclusive of 3 regions forever.