iWarMachine said:
Darth Tigris said:
TheSource said:
According to a person I know who speaks Japanese "ex" means poop / shit in Japanese in slang speak. Would you buy a system called Shit X360 in English? It isn't Xenophobia - Coca Cola, Apple, and plenty of other American items do well in Japan.
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A repost of mine from here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3602905
To be honest, its not fair to call the Japanese xenophobic as they have supported and still support many products made outside of their borders (as you mentioned about Windows).
But . . . when it comes to gaming, they ARE xenophobic. Why is that? As has been mentioned by them and others before, it likely has to do with how western game design lagged so far behind the Japanese in quality throughout the late 80's and 90's. There are still generational gamers that are locked into that mindset, and maybe it extends beyond them into a cultural belief. I'd imagine that a similar belief is the case with American made cars, even though they have gotten much better (heck, with my personal experiences with my Honda, I don't know if I could ever break free).
So in some ways, the criticism is fair when it comes to Xbox sales in Japan. What I think is more telling, though, is how good it has done despite doing so bad in Japan and how much trouble the PS3 would be if not for them. Japan remains an enigma this gen . . .
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tastes? i don't know, they don't seem to think that the 360 it's a RPG console...and since the whole console it's designed for the western culture, then maybe that's why they don't buy it...in fact, the Wii and the PS3 has much more Japan appeal in terms of games, design, connectivity, etc...the fact that the PS3 can be used like an Ad-Hoc port for the PSP already assures you more sales...i dunno, that's my thoughts...
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MS made a genuine and concerted effort to get games and genres and properties of interest to the Japanese gamer in the first 3 years of the systems release. Some Japanese developers did likewise. There were more releases that appealed to them during the first 2 years of the PS3's release.
But how did they respond? The numbers show.
