Why Japanese Don't Like Games from the West

[sapphi_snake]

Demotruk said:

sapphi_snake said:
You are aware that English is only spoken in 3 European countries right? So your theory doesn't explain why Western games are successfull in all of Europe. Plus WTF???, when have Westerns ever dominated TV/cinema in America or in any other place?

They are comparably more successful in English speaking regions like the UK (the example the poster before gave). Westerns were extremely popular in the early years of film, and have you never heard of Spaghetti Westerns of the 60's and 70's? All of these things were heavily exported to other English speaking countries. Perhaps it is because you are not in an English speaking country that you are not aware of this...

They are successfull in all Western countries, regardless of language spoken. Do you somehow think that American TV shows and movies don't make it to European countries who don't speak English? And I doubt that Westerns have had a significant impact on Britsh culture. It's just that, when it comes to video games at least, the Japanese are highly xenophobic, and reject non-Japanese video games. And I'm pretty sure Windows based PC's are pretty popular in Japan, it's just that they reject Microsoft when it comes to video games (because, like I said before, they're xenohpobic).