| JouninGarret said: HappySqurriel,true what you´re saying,but do you sometimes think the PS3´s poor performance in Japan is due to more than the "high price + lack of games combo"?...almost as if there´s been a huge shift in Japanese gamers´ preference in games over the last 2 years or something like that...don´t know if I´m expressing myself well enough,but do you get my question? |
As much as I would like to say that the preference of the Japaneese market was altered by Nintendo when they released the DS I really don't believe that is true. I believe that Nintendo was so successful with the DS mainly because they came to realize how the Japaneese market worked and why it was shrinking.
Japan is driven mostly by unique gameplay experiences ...
I know, now someone will point out that Dragon Quest IIX and Final Fantasy XII sold amazingly well and are far from unique gameplay experiences but I think they're missing something. Arcades in North America and Europe died in the 90's as the Playstation and N64 brought very powerful gaming hardware into a person's home. At the same time Arcades continued to do (reasonably) well in Japan mainly because you could have specialized hardware that provided a drastically different gameplay experience than a home console.
Since (about) 2000 Arcades have been running into the same problems in Japan that American arcades faced in the 90s. In my opinion this comes from the inability to produce unique gameplay experiences anymore ...
Mind you this is just my theory that I came up and is probably wrong ...
