BaldrSkies said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Wlakiz said:
Why don't you do it on Microsoft.. failing to adapt to Japanese Markets? |
Really? Microsoft did a ton for the Japanese but they didn't care. The Xbox 360 was hope to a lot of JRPG and the PS3 was not available for a year. Instead of embracing the 360 and it's JRPGs like Lost Odyssey the Japanese gaming public waited for their native Sony to give them the same. I don't think MS failed to adapt, I think the Japanese just don't want western anything. It took Apple a decade to catch on and only after the iPhone and iPad had already spread to every corner of the world.
I still don't understand what the Japanese have against MS. Halo is so damn good they don't know what they're missing.
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Japan is still an extremely closed and xenophobic society, and there's a lot that an "outsider" needs to do to become recognized and embraced. Did you know that many Japanese actually think McDonald's is a Japanese company? Seriously the Japanese insistance on sticking to native brand names is ridiculously bad. And if you think the repulsion to Western brands is bad, it's even worse towards other Asian brands like those from Korea and China, which attract outright hatred. Although Korea and China hate Japanese just as much... Oh Asia.
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Yeah. It's hard to even understand it because as an American I interested in stuff from many different cultures. I love very Japanese games,, French, Fench Canadian, Western European, American, and so on and so forth. I often don't even know where games were developed when I'm browseing them in a store. I mean I can usualy tell if it has Anime girls in tight school outfits, but I don't actualy care where a game comes from. I think as an American I can't really grasp the concept that the Japanese willfully ignore the greatness of Halo for not reason other than it's not Japanese. If Japanese games were so important to the rest of the world MS would do well to ignore the market. But thankfully MS has given it's all to hang on in Japan so we can get Japanese games too.
