happydolphin on 28 August 2013
| Gamerace said: Japan is a very different market. A market where cartoons are for adults and where a cartoonish game like Little King's Story or Wonderful 101 can have adult themes and difficulty levels because they are aimed at teens and up not little kids. For these reasons Nintendo is not perceived as a 'kiddie' system in Japan. Cartoonish is not considered childish. So it's more at home in Japan. The casual market is also excepting of cartoons as family fare from Simpsons to Family Guy and Mario and Miis can be for all ages. It's the Western teen-YA market that shuns cartoony styles as childish (a rather childish attitude actually) and therefor shuns Nintendo - at least until they grow up, get married, have kids and rediscover it all over again. In short - Nintendo's successes in Japan have little to no (direct) relation to it's success in the rest of the world. |
I agree partially. If Japan was able to have such an influence on the western front during the NES, SNES, PSX and PS2 eras, why would the PS3 era suddenly make that no longer true?
I could be wrong but as far as I can see it the situation of the industry in the west is unstable because it lost sight of what made games good or classics.
