Asian videogames - who creates them, who plays them?

[Harrybarry]

RolStoppable said:
South Korea is the only country besides Japan from where we get sales data of official trackers and even then only a few times a year. The PC is the most popular gaming platform.

Chinese games are only really played in China. For one, because China is restrictive on imports from other countries and two, because Chinese games are usually cheap knockoffs of popular Japanese and Western games. Everyone outside of China would rather play the originals than the copycats.

Japan and South Korea are the only Asian countries with good software sales, all other countries are dominated by rampant piracy, so it's next to impossible to find any market data. And without such data It's complete guesswork whether Japanese or Western games are more popular among gamers in these countries.

Thanks for the information! I already suspected something like this. Could you maybe link to an article about this subject? (Lack of good software sales, rampant piracy) I'm writing an essay about the subject and proper sources are useful :) Thank you!