pokoko on 20 September 2017
| RaptorChrist said: I'm not well informed on the subject, but why is it so hard for corporations to get their gaming systems into China? Does China not allow it? And if they were to get Switch into China, is this the sort of thing where console sales for the generation would be massively impacted (i.e., 200 million instead of maybe 100 million). How big is the market? |
That market in China is massive ... but it's not on home console. It's on PC and mobile. Piracy is also very wide-spread, reinforcing PC's dominance.
Western companies are learning that the large populations in places like China and India don't really translate into money the same way as in the west. This is good for Nintendo, certainly, but the market is just being reactionary as usual. Expansion into China probably won't have much of an impact on the bottom line in the near future.
