BaldrSkies on 15 April 2013
| Otakumegane said: Man the Japanese market is so much more interesting than the western one. Wonder if it's because it's a more 1v1 situation than a 3 person free-for-all. |
More like because it's not clogged up with bloody shooters and shooter variants. The genre is just overloaded to tediousness in the West. That and sports games.
Japan has a very healthy RPG and adventure type market, where fantasy is cherished over gritty realism. It really helps that CERO only gives the infamous Z rating, which restricts sales to adults, to explicitly violent games. Even (non-explicit) sexual content only gets a D rating, which is still purchaseable by anyone. It's a huge difference in values from the West. And it results in a very different game industry atmosphere.
