China and Japan have historically hated each other dating back decades if not centuries. Japan did terrible things to them during WW2, and China now has a communist government which is very different from Japan's. Also, since WW2 ended, Japan has increasingly become buddy-buddy with the US both economically and militarily. I would argue that the alliance of US/South Korea/Japan/Australia/India is a stronger bond than US/UK/France/Canada is now days. If A Japanese company is interested in selling to someone outside of Japan, I think a US based company is far more likely than a Chinese one.

Wow I had no idea. Japan was kind of a dick to everyone back in the WW2 days. The clapback from the USA was devastating. I guess Japan decided that they would rather have the US as an ally versus and enemy. Anyway, my comment came from a misinformed place as I didn't know Japan and China were like that with one another. Appreciate the lesson on it.

I actually see a different trend. Political conflict has been much reduced with more economic success of the whole region. Countries like South Korea, Japan and China are heavily profiting by working together economically and with traqde between them. On the other hand the US (Trump was very vocal, but all we've seen so far from the Biden administration point in the same direction) is more and more in economic conflict with China and escalating the issues, as China threatens the economic leadership position of the US.

US is like Goku from Dragon Ball Z. It has all these rivals that pop up, then they beat them, and they become buddies afterword. UK, Germany, Japan, Vietnam. At least the traditional war enemies (the modern ones that fight based on religious reasons have a different mindset so it isn't likely we will ever be buddies, even if we fought a war, with Iran). I think, as horrible as it would have been, had we fought an actual war with the Russians our relationship with that country today would look a lot like US/Germany. I'm thankful we didn't, as many tens of millions would have died.

Part of it may be that, sure, but the bigger problem than the US being the economic leader is the US buying hundreds of billions of dollars more of stuff made in China than it is selling back to China of things made in the US (or services, etc). That lowers our nation's economic value and if that trend continues for many more decades it will cripple our economy. At some point you have to stop spending more money than you are taking in and re-evaluate things.

The Sega rumors have been going around for awhile, but there is nothing to back it up. Konami is not going to happen.

quite sure i have seen this thread pop up every once in a while ever since the dreamcast flopped

No more Sega games on Nintendo consoles BUT Sega games on PC... Don't know what I want, does Sega release on PC?

They have since the Genesis era. They put a bunch of stuff on PC.

If Micro really want to make a smart purchase, they should buy Nintendo. Even if they don't have the money for it, it's a must.