famousringo on 04 January 2008
Japan isn't insignificant, it's just fading in significance. The market in Japan is holding steady while other markets are surging upward.
The Japanese market punches above its weight due to the importance of Japanese developers, but even those developers are becoming more interested in scoring big in the larger foreign markets than pleasing the home crowd.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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