china finally gets its first home console but its not from one of the big 3?

[Joelcool7]

Well this console has been in the works for years its awesome to finally see it launching. Also their are other reasons no other consoles have come to China then just protectionist. The Chinese Government fears video games and has limited the play of PC games and completely outlawed the sale of video game consoles.

The company is classifying the console as a "Home entertainment center" in hopes of getting around the ban. Something they appear to be doing also note they mention it as a sports machine. This is all being done to circumvent China's anti gaming policies.

Also Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo in order to bring a console to China would need to give assets to China. Nintendo can't just sell and distribute its Japanese console. Hence why when Nintendo's i-Que came to China Nintendo themselves couldn't distribute the system and handle much of its national operations a Chinese partner had to deal with all the business in China.

Also a correction a news article I just read "A wider launch which will include traditional markets like Europe and North America will take place in the early months of 2012." - Softpedia

If they did indeed say they needed to sell a million units then they are pretty dang sure that they will do so and must already be hard at work on the world launch!

Honestly I think the console will sell shit loads in China. But once it comes to North America many software companies will be reluctant to work on it. The Chinese Government is notorious for hacking corporations spying on them and censoring their products. Companies like Google which worked with China had to stop do to China's abuse of its users and staff.

The console will likely receive a few titles, the Chinese titles will probably all be ported but I doubt it will see massive support from third parties in Japan or North America/Europe. I'd say it will likely crash out in the rest of the world similar to how X-Box crashed in Japan. It might do slightly better then X-Box did in Japan but I don't see it being massive outside China.

Also the consoles very high price tag better only exist in China if the company has any hope of success around the globe. The console isn't that powerful last I heard and with WiiU coming next year most likely around 300$ this console needs a very affordable price to even be a contender. The price they have listed will fail miserably outside Japan where the company will actually face competition!