| Soundwave said: I just don't think the Japanese like playing at home. If you've actually been to Japan you begin to understand why console gaming is not a big thing there. If handheld gaming could produce decent 3D graphics back in 1997 ... who knows, consoles may have declined back then too. |
Been to Japan, Korea, and China a combined 12 times in the past 15 months.
Korea and China are not into consoles as much for difference reasons (less tradition, piracy, PC gaming)
Japan its more of a case of the rise of mobile phones. They like to live on the go there. They want to be able to play while on the subway, or while chilling in town. Thats why it wont go back to PS2/PS1 levels, and I said that in the OP.
Right now home gaming in Japan is not en vogue. However, things can catch on, and it consoles could catch on again.
Korea has little history with consoles being big there, home gaming is not big there. Even a big part of PC gaming is not at home but rather in PC gaming centers.
China has a whole bunch of other issues, political, legel, etc. If those clear up China could get pretty big but sadly I dont see those issues getting cleared up any time soon.
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