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Vashyo said:
Kyren said:
Vashyo said:

Their gaming culture is very xenophobic, foreign games fail because they're shiat no matter how well they do abroad. -_-


I don't think it's a matter of xenophobia but a matter of pop culture. Japanese have a well established entertainment industry and they have their on culture for it. It's wrong to say because it was popular in a different country it should be popular elsewhere, tis not always the case.

“Japan’s never been very receptive to foreign games,” says Gwyn Campbell, who works for a major game publisher in Tokyo and is the host of a gaming podcast with other expatriates. “The term ‘foreign game’ is traditionally an insult — it means ‘low quality.’”

The anti-Western prejudice is deeply ingrained in the minds of Japanese gamers, who traditionally favor handheld devices like the Nintendo DS over high-powered consoles like the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Yo-ge, kuso-ge, goes the saying: “Western game, shit game.”

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/

Sure he isn't just jealous of games like Call of duty and Halo because they sell millions of more copies than games they make over there in japan.