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Norris2k on 14 March 2014
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BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
You can say the same about the West, they doesn't get Japan either. Look at Microsoft for example with Xbox, the OG and 360 sold next to nothing there and MS might not even release the One in Japan. Like the other here saying developers should just be themselves and make the games they want to make not worry about having to make the game appeal to average dude bro who plays COD, see RE6 for what I mean when a Japanese developer sells out their creative vision.

No not really, japan is just very anti things not japanese.  car electronics what ever.


You know that's funny, because the Iphone has the biggest smart phone in Japan and that's an American phone.....

Fuuny is your sentance makes no sense 

reality is they are a very fadish people they jump on stuff hard but show me overall japan cell sales ?  id wager a guess majority are Japanese brands. 

The i-phone is really an interesting case that shows why japanese brand fails outside Japan, and why japanese like japanese products and why some japanese brands are ultimately failing.

The japanese featurephone (phone with internet capabilities) was tailor-made for japanese consumer. Electronic wallet, secure (no javascript, virus, ect.), extreme good battery life (a week), very fast, service for seism alerts, reliable, 1 seg TV, waterproof, vast range of device styles, light, small, hard to break, custom decorations, etc. made by incremental updates based on clients needs. After years of this process it came to be very near to be the perfect match for client needs.

So the market was very closed to foreigner brand that could not produce such a quality, such a fit between offer and japanese client needs. And it was not really possible to sell it outside Japan for japanese product, because lots of service or needs didn't even exist.

Then came Apple, who doesn't know and doesn't give a shit about the japanese client needs. They had 1 new product to rules them all. And the japanese clients threw away their japanese mobile phone, and Apple took the market lion share.

That's a very famous example of what japanese call galapagos. That's currently very hard for japanese companies to make this jump from a predictable, secured and somewhat lucrative but shrinking and specific japanese market to the worldwide market where rules are differents. That's where are lots of companies are fighting with, and that's a reason why Japanese market is so closed (but not unbreakable as per iphone example).