This is exactly what Microsoft should've done with Japan and the 360. Get a bunch of launch games by Japanese developers, partner with a huge Japanese company (Toshiba perhaps?) and then released the 360 in 2006.

At least they have seem to learn their lesson and Xbox One should do OK in China.

And you have earned a cookie for using the right phrase.

Well here if it's not a Jeep Cherokee, or for a short while a PT Cruiser, it's mostly rednecks and Yank-o-philes who drive American muscle cars. The vast majority of the population, of whatever race and including expat Americans, drive Asian or European cars.

I think anti-Japanese sentiment stopped being a factor for certain people here in about the 1980s (because of WWII). But Japan was never a hostile occupying force, so it was only ever a very small proportion of our population who had first hand experience of Japanese WWII oppression. In China it was a different story so the cultural memory may be more ingrained and widespread. But good, in general, if the Chinese people have left the past in the past.

Of course old wounds can easily be reopened and who knows what the dispute over those little islands triangulated by China, Japan and Korea will do for cultural relations, and with Shinzo Abe declaring the Japanese pacifist constitution null and void.

binary solo said: So does this mean China should be added to the "... will save Xbox One" chalkboard?

That is really funny.   

Someone find the chalkboard and do this please.

Yay! Cookie! :D

I just wonder if this will be a good place to watch from.

Hopefully it is, I set my expections low because China is a PC/mobile market but hey you never know :)

Its a proper luxury product over there as it costs a 1/10 of what the average Chinese earns in a year. Even so, it could still do well by our standards. Depends on how well Chinese developers support it I think.

About HW: prices will be quite high for Chinese middle classes at least for some years.
About SW: we can expect racing and other sports games to sell well, obviously according to Chinese tastes and popularity of each sport, so the most popular ones could be different from the best sellers in other markets. But for the other genres, western-biased games won't sell very well, and many of them will require heavy censorship to be approved by Chinese authorities. Chinese games could sell a lot better, as long as they find a comfortable market that isn't catered for by PC yet. Not heavily western characterized RPGs and MMOGs of most genres should do fine too, because unless a bias is built-in too deeply, it's the single gamer or the community that shape them.