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jarrod on 27 December 2010
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XanderZane said:
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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/western-games-japan/

Well, that's not surprising really. I've been saying this for years. This is why the Xbox 360 and it's games haven't sold well in Japan. It's mainly because Japanese gamers hate American made games and products. The only thing they love from America is the IPod, IPad , WoW and Starcraft. lol!! They hate our cars, T.V's and other electronics. The Asian market loves to exports all their crap to America for us, but refuse to import our products to their country. Even when they do, they rarely buy anything American. This has been going on for many, many years. That's why our government has been trying to get an equal fair trade requirement made and signed by foreign countries.

It's just electronics and automobiles that Japan tends to have a nationalistic consumer pride in.  And it's not absolute, Apple, Phillips and Samsung all do pretty well for themselves there.  Hell, even Microsoft does overall.

When it comes to about everything else though (movies, fashion, beverages, retail chains, etc) Japan LOVES American brands.