Hello all
First time poster here, please allow me to take this oppertunity to introduce myself.
I came from Taiwan, I have been a console gamer ever since the late 80s. My first console was Nintendo (what we called the red white machine). Stoped console games after super nintendo, I don't own any of the PS console. I was a huge Final Fantasy fan (I have done my fair share of camp outside the store for the release of FF 3,4,5,6) I didn't play any of the final fantasy series from 7 onwards, I just couldn't handle the unisex powder face looking main characters.
I have read this forum for quite some time and I see a lot of gamers that are passionate about their chosen consoles, me myself are currently just came back from a PC gamer to a console gamer again under the influence of my beloved Xbox 360. Now before I get branded a fanboy I will say I have no ill feelings about PS products, I just don't like any games that they publish and its just as simple as it is.
The Xbox brand have come a long way from been a total failure (as a matter of fact in regards to regions like Taiwan , Hong Kong, China) to having a equal footing if not higher game population compare to the new PS3s. Most of my opinion and sources are coming from this site here (www.gamer.com.tw) the link are just provided as a proof of me not just pulling stuff out of thin air please delete it if not appropriate, is the best and most popular multi-platform gaming site for the above asian regions. Altho that site doesn't actually track sells records like VGchartz but it does shows the popularity of each forums for the day. Heres a quick number of hits for the console forums for yesterday.
| Xbox 360 | 77424 |
| PS3 / PlayStation3 | 54342 |
| Wii | 32215 |
The interesting thing is that before the 360, there wasn't even a xbox forum. There are some key factors that xbox 360 are doing better then PS3 currently:
Prize tag (I know its a world wide issue for PS3)
Language (A lot of the Asian players are tired of been treated as second class citizen by the japos! For more then 20 years we as players from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China supported the japanese gaming market and it has been recored that we are between 20-25% of the total game consumers in japan, and yet we never ever been given language support from any of the consoles)
Game Trend (There are more and more asian players start to accept Western style games such as GoW, Halo, GTA, Mass Effect, Bioshock didn't do that good to my personal dismay =( and if I dare say some even got tired of JRPGs ! Oh my god I said it)
I will say that PS3 will have a very hard battle ahead of them compare to xbox console, it has been pointed out time and time again in japanese gaming site that developers all around seeing japanese console game markets are dying, its more of just a trend which are not entirly game related. The japanese are just simply likes to go out more haha.
There are more I would like to say but I feel I shouldn't cramp it all into 1 post, I will continue once I have more free time.
And Lastly please excuse my poor english as you already know its not my first language.
