| Intrinsic said:
while what u are saying sounds accurate, the problem is that you are jumping the gun and don't really understand what is really wrong with the Japanese market. their apparent love for bite sized gaming is simply that, they just have gone to where the games are. the real problem is the jap developers. you see, unlike western developers; who will make games and expect people to buy the console to play them, the jap developers want the console to have a sizeable install base before even supporting it. that was the problem last gen. no install base, no games. no games, no one buys the console. the problem of the chicken and the egg. this gen, things already seem to be different. but it remains to be seen. the only way your theory holds water, is if in 3 years we have a glut of Japanese centric games and yet the console still doesn't sell there. then and only then van we say consoles are dead over there. but you're basing your theory on a problem that has a possible solution that is yet to be implemented. |
I don't think that's true at all. The PS3 had a ton of japanese-made games, but they aren't buying those games. Not like they're buying handheld games. It's not a chicken or egg situation. The trend went towards mobile gaming in Japan, so japanese devs started making mobile and handheld games moreso than console ones. And there's nothing "wrong" with the japanese market. There's nothing "wrong" with them strongly prefering handheld gaming.
Unless it's Pokemon. Then is really screws with my perfect console Pokemon game dreams.
It's just a culture difference, and one that is likely never going to change. And it doesn't need to.
