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Salnax on 21 September 2010
sapphi_snake said:
Severance said:
sapphi_snake said:
Severance said:
Boutros said:

More importantly, Heavy Rain makes the list. A western game in a Japanese award show. That gotta be rare. Japan is really conservative when it comes to their culture.


if they're really closed minded then why is every "weird" looking game sell so little in the West while selling more in the East?

They're probably not seen as weird over there. Japs probably see Call of Duty as being weird.


No they don't , " Action " games have their fanbase in there, and they call FPS games Action games.

Has any FPS sold over 1 mil in Japan? Or even close to that?

Just coz I'm here, the two best selling FPS's in Japanese history are the Modern Warfare games for the PS3, with 250,000 to 300,000 copies each. So no.



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sapphi_snake on 21 September 2010
Severance said:
sapphi_snake said:
Severance said:
sapphi_snake said:
Severance said:
Boutros said:

More importantly, Heavy Rain makes the list. A western game in a Japanese award show. That gotta be rare. Japan is really conservative when it comes to their culture.


if they're really closed minded then why is every "weird" looking game sell so little in the West while selling more in the East?

They're probably not seen as weird over there. Japs probably see Call of Duty as being weird.


No they don't , " Action " games have their fanbase in there, and they call FPS games Action games.

Has any FPS sold over 1 mil in Japan? Or even close to that?

Japan is a smaller country than the whole American Region, things do not sell in millions unless they're super popular.

While it is smaller lots of games have sold comparable with both the US and the Others region. I believe that Japan alone has almost as many million sellers as those regions (don't know how to find the charts on the new VGchartz so I can't check to make sure). Plus Japanese video games (judging from the charts) are more likely to be successfull in the West than vice versa, and that has nothing to do with Japan's size, but rather their xenophobia.



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