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Hey everyone, glad to see you talking about Chinese console market so warmly. I'm a Chinese guy, and I'm looking forward to the future of the consoles in my country.

Once I posted a reply in another thread about this topic, expressing my opinion on the ban-removing, from the standpoint of a Chinese console gamer. I copy that here to discuss with you.

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My country has banned TV consoles and games for the past few decades. But gamers here just buy the smuggled consoles from the personal vendors, mostly Japanese edition, then American edition, little European edition.

Yes now there's a free-trade experiment area in Shanghai, so we can import consoles legally. Microsoft has confirmed the copyrighted Xbox One for China will come at October this year. Sony is doing action now, only Nintendo has no messages.

But in my opinion, that probably won't make much contribution to the sales number. For consoles, if we begin to buy copyrighted consoles, we'll also stop buying the smuggled ones. For softwares, the problems seem more serious.

1. There's no ESRB rating mechanism in China, most games such as COD, BattleField, GTA, God of War, won't be adopted by the approving authorities. If we get the consoles with little games, why we should buy that? I will prefer the smuggled ones.

2. Most gamers (but not all) here have been playing pirate softwares for the last few generations. They are used to that and not think it's their fault. This habit is not easy to change for them. Even enough copyrighted and localized games are given, maybe the sales will still be embarrassing.

3. Like other areas in the world, the mobile is more and more popular here, the kids now know iPhone and iPad, but they may not know what a PS4, a Xbox, a WiiU is.

The ice is broken, but the pains formed in decades will need another decades to ease.
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Yes that's nintendo's DS for China, and we have iQue 3DS as well.   iQue 3DS' sales number is very low, not only because there's little localized games, but also 3DS is not hacked. iQue DS sells much better, but almost everyone bought them to play pirate games.

Mario is almost fine: it will just take that Ninty make him stop smashing turtles and eating magic 'shrooms and make him eat dogs and snakes instead!