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Gran Turismo in Japan - Is It Dying ?

Yes...unfortunately... 26 35.14%
 
No...and it never will die ! 16 21.62%
 
Who cares? GT is a beast in Europe ! 32 43.24%
 
Total:74
leatherhat on 22 February 2011
CGI-Quality said:
leatherhat said:
CGI-Quality said:
leatherhat said:

Console gaming is dying across the board. 

Actually, this gen seems to be one of the strongest we've ever had. All consoles are healthy and above 40 million. That's never happened before.


I meant in Japan

My apologies, "across the borad" came off as WW.

Its cool, I meant across the board as in "software in general"



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ethomaz on 22 February 2011

Not dying... 600k for Japan still is f*cking sales.

But the game market in Japan was becaming more and more attractive for handhelds while consoles is more weak then previous generation.



Killiana1a on 22 February 2011
BadF***ingButters said:
Killiana1a said:

 their relationships with trading partners is one like the GED wife who is married to the millionaire. She needs him way more than he would ever need her. Better make sure your ass doesn't get too fat if you know what I am saying.

roflol that was so fucking funny. water came out my noise

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Killiana1a on 22 February 2011
jacks81x said:
Killiana1a said:

Well, from the numbers you posted it would appear to be so at face value without looking at the other factors.

First, this ain't the PS1 and PS2 generations where Sony was blowing the competition out of the water by margins which the Wii can only dream of. Sure the Wii has quite a margin, but nowhere near the margin the PS1 was dominating the N64 or the PS2 was dominating the Gamecube.

So with a smaller market share, you would expect a drop in numbers. This has occurred.

Second, demographics. Paul Krugman and other famous economists have written enough columns to fill books about "Japan's impending, inevitable, irreversible CRASH," I will just direct you to the CIA World Factbook entry on Japan:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html

Lets see the demographics of Japan:

Over 20% of the population retired? Yes.

Declining population growth rate? Yes.

Higher death rate than birth rate? Yes.

A high life expectancy to drag down the incomes and heap loads of stress on the working population? Yes.

196.4% debt compared to GDP? Yes.

From a demographics perspective, Japan is a very long timebomb. I would consider it more like a 30 to 50 year implosion rather than an explosion which was Greece and Ireland. Things may change for the better. Japan may invent synthetic human androids to boost the working population.

Finally, if the US economy is down, Japan's economy is down. The US is Japan's biggest trading partner. Furthermore, with Japan having next to zilch in natural resources their relationships with trading partners is one like the GED wife who is married to the millionaire. She needs him way more than he would ever need her. Better make sure your ass doesn't get too fat if you know what I am saying.

I would not say Gran Turismo is dying per se, I think Japan is on it's way down. You had the title wrong in my opinion.


Very good insight about what's going on over in Japan.  My cousin who's lived there the past 6 years told me similar things when I went to visit him last year.  The working class is working longer hours than ever before, which contributes to couples having less and less children, causing the population growth rate to be at its lowest in decades.  The government is so concerned about this that they're offering couples somthing like 400,000 yen to have children to try to jumpstart the decreasing birthrate.

I have heard some things about Japanese porn stars looking to boost the birth rate...With Koreans of all things. Koreans in Japan have the history of African Americans in the US. They are the taboo people to couple with.

As for your cousin, God bless him or her. What a learning experience I would have loved to have had.



Alby_da_Wolf on 25 February 2011

Whatever is happening in JP, if that means that GT6 will have a little less Nissan and more of the other car brands, maybe it will succeed more again in JP too!   



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