Jadedx said:
Demotruk said:
Jadedx said:
Demotruk said:
Jadedx said:
Demotruk said:
It's also demonstrably untrue since American products like the Apple Ipod and even symbols of American consumerism like McDonalds do well there.
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Those are the exceptions to the rule.
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So basically you are asserting that your position is unfalsifiable. There are many more "exceptions to the rule" like them, american branded clothing goods are very popular as well. If nationalism were the issue, there shouldn't be so many exceptions to the rule. The reality is that products that appeal to the Japanese' values as well as suit Japanese lifestyle do well, those that do not, do not. The XBox brand has never really matched these values, and having a few members of the declining jRPG genre is not enough to make it so.
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Name 5 poplular american brands in japan and you cant include McDonalds, Apple, Levi, and Windows.
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FIne: Harley Davidson, Coca-Cola, Google, Abercrombie, Starbucks, American beers (Japan is the biggest importer), American furniture, Jack Daniels.
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More exceptions to the rule.
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Hollywood movies are pretty popular in Japan as well, so is Disney and even Marvel comics. It seems to be western games specifically they have a problem with, I believe that some people from Square-enix recently mentioned there has been a long standing stigma about western games dating back to the NES games where western games were of poor quality compared to Japanese games, and that is so ingrained that the slang term for western games basically means bad game, I think this has carried over to the 360. It's not really that they hate western brands totally, but they do prefer their own brands, but not to the point where western brands aren't popular.
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