Worldwide UP - 04th September

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kain_kusanagi said:

Spankey 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? 

"Ex"as in short for excrement maybe? perhaps some english seeping through to Japanese.

However, seems a bit dodgy an explanation for me seeing as how many Japanese games have an X in them, don't they? or am I mistaken?

 

Very true. Wii sales outside of Japan prove people don't care that it sounds like the another name for urine. Nothing about Japan gaming makes sense. The whole world enjoys Xbox 360 and western style games as well as PS3, Wii, and Japanese style games. But for some reason Japan snubs western games. How is it that westerner's tastes include Japanese style games, but Japanese tastes don't include western style games? Good games are universally good and fun is universally fun, so the only explanation is the Japanese refuse to  let themselves enjoy western gaming. I just don't see how anyone can argue that it's about taste and preference when Japanese games are popular outside of Japan. If we enjoy their best games than they should enjoy our best games. It's the only region that refuses to give the Xbox 360 a chance or even consider western style games.

Sorry, but you're completely wrong.

Good games are NOT universally good and fun is NOT universally fun. If it was ,as you said, universal, then Yakuza and Valkyria Chronicles would do a lot better in the west (these are QUALITY games in Japan), but they sell really bad here, just like the PSP would sell more in the west (it's outselling all home consoles in Japan), but it's doing worse than any other console right now. Japanese could ask themselves: "Why does the PSP do so bad in the west, it's awesome!" You probably see what I mean... or probably not.

Quality is subjective, fun is subjective. Nuff said.