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GamechaserBE on 08 January 2014
BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
VGPolyglot said:
There should be a Chinese company that decides to create a console, I would gladly import it and buy games for it, that should help my Chinese.


Its actually strange one hasn't build yet, at least an orginal one since there are tons of clone consoles already made by Chinese companies. Foxconn, a Chinese company, builds all the consoles anyway so they know how to build one.

Yahh but who the hell would make games for it ? and release them in pirate heaven.... wheres the $$$ in that.

Well developers make games for the PC still and that's a massive priate heaven too, its the whole reason for the cheap steam sales after all. The Chinese  government would have to crack down on pirates for sure, and there are Chinese game developers. Piracy of software is everyone in every country and it doesn't kill the industry if controlled properly. 


Come on you cant compare pirating in China to anywhere else. They rip of cars for fraks sake, want a bmw that is not a bmw yep they got it.

Pirate heaven that is true but a lot of money get spent aswell. In a few years the market will spend more than 20 billion $ a year that is a huge market to ignore.



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LemonSlice on 08 January 2014

Aren't Chinese the same people who spend thousands of dollars monthly on simple online PC games?



BeElite on 08 January 2014
GamechaserBE said:
BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
VGPolyglot said:
There should be a Chinese company that decides to create a console, I would gladly import it and buy games for it, that should help my Chinese.


Its actually strange one hasn't build yet, at least an orginal one since there are tons of clone consoles already made by Chinese companies. Foxconn, a Chinese company, builds all the consoles anyway so they know how to build one.

Yahh but who the hell would make games for it ? and release them in pirate heaven.... wheres the $$$ in that.

Well developers make games for the PC still and that's a massive priate heaven too, its the whole reason for the cheap steam sales after all. The Chinese  government would have to crack down on pirates for sure, and there are Chinese game developers. Piracy of software is everyone in every country and it doesn't kill the industry if controlled properly. 


Come on you cant compare pirating in China to anywhere else. They rip of cars for fraks sake, want a bmw that is not a bmw yep they got it.

Pirate heaven that is true but a lot of money get spent aswell. In a few years the market will spend more than 20 billion $ a year that is a huge market to ignore.

its a complex situation, but it speaks volumes to me that no electronics corp from China has yet to make a serious attemp at a console.  



LiquorandGunFun on 08 January 2014

Government at work muckking shit up as usual.



 

S.Peelman on 08 January 2014
LemonSlice said:
Aren't Chinese the same people who spend thousands of dollars monthly on simple online PC games?

Probably not, 99% of Chinese don't have 'thousands of dollars monthly' to spend.



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GamechaserBE on 08 January 2014
BeElite said:
GamechaserBE said:
BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
BeElite said:
Devil_Survivor said:
VGPolyglot said:
There should be a Chinese company that decides to create a console, I would gladly import it and buy games for it, that should help my Chinese.


Its actually strange one hasn't build yet, at least an orginal one since there are tons of clone consoles already made by Chinese companies. Foxconn, a Chinese company, builds all the consoles anyway so they know how to build one.

Yahh but who the hell would make games for it ? and release them in pirate heaven.... wheres the $$$ in that.

Well developers make games for the PC still and that's a massive priate heaven too, its the whole reason for the cheap steam sales after all. The Chinese  government would have to crack down on pirates for sure, and there are Chinese game developers. Piracy of software is everyone in every country and it doesn't kill the industry if controlled properly. 


Come on you cant compare pirating in China to anywhere else. They rip of cars for fraks sake, want a bmw that is not a bmw yep they got it.

Pirate heaven that is true but a lot of money get spent aswell. In a few years the market will spend more than 20 billion $ a year that is a huge market to ignore.

its a complex situation, but it speaks volumes to me that no electronics corp from China has yet to make a serious attemp at a console.  

Because the average Chinese consumer is not interested in a console that sells games for more than 10$ each.  They are used to a pc gaming market and mobile market where they spend little money on microtransactions and have 100 hours of gameplay from it. The steam machine could be a massive hit though in China.



S.Peelman on 08 January 2014

Don't know about Sony's business in China right now, but Nintendo has a slight advantage. They've already been present there with their iQue devices.



SubiyaCryolite on 08 January 2014

Its enivitable, the market divided by 10 is too large to ignore.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

eFKac on 08 January 2014
S.Peelman said:
LemonSlice said:
Aren't Chine same people who spend thousands of dollars monthly on simple online PC games?

Probably not, 99% of Chinese don't have 'thousands of dollars monthly' to spend.


Yeah, but this 1% is still around 15 million people



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!

Devil_Survivor on 08 January 2014
generic-user-1 said:
Devil_Survivor said:
VGPolyglot said:
There should be a Chinese company that decides to create a console, I would gladly import it and buy games for it, that should help my Chinese.


Its actually strange one hasn't build yet, at least an orginal one since there are tons of clone consoles already made by Chinese companies. Foxconn, a Chinese company, builds all the consoles anyway so they know how to build one.


foxconn isnt chinese, well okay, u can argue if taiwan is china or not.

 

and its no big news that sony dont wanna go to china, the market will be heavy regulated and a bunch of big games will be banned(and the chinese dont like japanese companys) nintendo has the best chances, they make games that are strictly non political. mario is a realy safe game. but they are japanese too, that could be a problem.

Yeah I can totally see it being that way since China has an authortarian government that doesn't want certain ideas in threating their power. It will be like when Google was let into China back in the earlier 2000's they had to agree to certain conditions before being to operate in China. As for Taiwan, the people that live there are just as Chinese as the people that live on the mainland they just have goverments that have different political viewpoints and pretty much hate each other's guts lol.