Playstation In China UPDATE: SOES Now A Thing ($211.5 Million Investment)

[joeorc]

osed125 said:

That's gonna be hard. PC gaming is insane in China, games like Dota 2, Warcraft, League of Legends, Starcraft and the likes basically dominate the market, competing with that will almost be mission impossible. 

There's also a price issue, the reason those games are popular is because of huge gaming centers in China, places like this:

From what I understand these are HUGE places (hundreds of computers at the same time) where people pay maybe 1 or 2 dollars an hour and get access to all the games, why would chinese players pay, let's say, $400 for a PS4 when they have access to all those online games incredible cheap?

Also you have to look at it like this, if that was the case why would the chinese market even need to look at any game console at all? i mean if you are talking about "pirate" Software, than if the above is such massive Return On Investment, than all they would be going after is the PC!

But that is not the Case, and since now both Microsoft and Sony are pushing Self publish, not to mention Sony is allowing the Unity 3D game engine that works across the PSVita/PS3/PS4 along with Playstation Now being a streaming service, why is Both Microsoft and Sony spending Millions of $$ in Funding in china is this was only really  a "PC only centric Game market"

The fact that game consoles software is pirated, not only that but even Game consoles themselves have knock off's proves there is infact a market for the orig's