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endimion on 30 July 2014
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kitler53 said:
binary solo said:
kowenicki said:
binary solo said:
Hooking up with Tencent seems like it was a bit of a coup for MS in the China market.


Possibly, but I still dont see either the One or PS4 doing much over there.

I do believe PC gaming is huge there, which may limit the appeal of consoles, similar to the Korean gaming situation perhaps.

But in a country the size of China, with a pretty rapidly expanding middle class, I can't imagine the console market being smaller then Japan's. 20 million people (~1.5% of the population) buying consoles almost seems like a sure bet. And a 20 million console market is nothing to sneeze at. But by the same token a 20 million console market isn't likely to be a game changer in the global scheme of things.

no it doesn't. 

games to release in china have to go through an approval process and be cleansed of anything the chinese boards deem unacceptable.   right there you can assume every indie and probably most of the mid teir games won't release in china at all.  and even of the big publishers if the work to censor their work is too big to justify the amount of sales they won't release everything either.   if there are no games there are no consumers buying the boxes.  if there are no consumers buying the boxes there will be no games.

...this is a very uphill battle for consoles.   someday consoles might do well in china but for these first-try consoles things going to be a real stuggle and ms and sony are probably going to lose money on the attempt.