Nintendo is private industry, In China's form of communism the government owns all, all revenue is tracked back to that government, as I stated this seems to have changed, it's been nearly a decade since I've had to study China, so I know as much as they have open markets with Caribbean private companies, (I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands when I found this out about two years ago.) other companies from other parts of the world.

I was shocked when I learned that China had progressed that much into free market policy inclusion. Until then I was still under the old iron curtain belief - not the aggressive functions.

~Man I went off topic

 It should be noted that South America is basically synonymous with Latin America. Latina America includes all of the states south of the US that speak a Romance language. The whole of South America uses a Romance language with the exceptions of Guyana/Falkland Islands (English) and Suriname (Dutch). The only major Latin American state that is not South American is Mexico.

Lots of hurdles for China to overcome to become a huge market for video games, and one of them will be how will the economy be effected now that they don't have the Olympic games ahead of them to spur them on.

It's not IF, it's WHEN China becomes the fourth marked.

China is a PC country.  I can tell you if you dare to bring out a game in China who has not a online multiplayer THE GAME WILL BOMB.

Some facts I have from my local game magazine who had a talk with someone who knows how the gamemarket works in China:


- More than 80% of the gamers are between 18-25 years old. (This especially because of the schoolsystem that is pretty hard and parents who demand a lot of their children when their children goes to the University they will have less classes + have a job where they can buy videogames with) they expect that in 2015   50% of the gamers will be younger than 18.

- In 2003 China made Gaming an official sport and they even have made gaming an official demonstrationsport at the olympic games with this China hopes that gaming will be an official sport at the Olympic games in the future where you can win medals with.

-Games like Warcraft are a huge succes in China (more than 4 million subscribers).

- In 2007 China counted around 46 million gamers who played at their PC's at home or at one of the 185.000 Internetbars who are registered in China who all together spended 1.7 billion dollars to their hobby they expect that in 2010 the Chinese gamer community spends around 6 Billion dollars for their hobby.

- Also more and more gamecompany's are opening a company in China at the moment EA, Ubisoft and Microsoft have atleast one gamecompany in China but also companies like Epic, Activision and THQ are working together with studio's in China who are making 3D modals for them at a low cost.

I think the gaming markets in China and India are going to explode when X720, PS4 and N5 will use a download only policy. In the end of the day China will be the biggest market. That might be 20 years away.

1 China 1,330,044,605
2 India 1,147,995,898
3 United States 303,824,646
4 Indonesia 237,512,355
5 Brazil 191,908,598
6 Pakistan 167,762,040
7 Bangladesh 153,546,901
8 Russia 140,702,094
9 Nigeria 138,283,240
10 Japan 127,288,419

am I missing something or arn't consoles banned in Chiana?

according to nintendo latin america is the fourth market

Nop.  I can buy them. Last year I could buy a PS3 for around 250$. Some games are banned and in fact piracy is illegal aswell but just like our governments they don't much effort to stop it.

The problem is that this gen consoles are still to expensive for a lot of citizens and the gamer over there don't see the point in buying a system for 250$ when their games they love the most are on the pc and that they can play for 0,10$ a hour in a internet bar. The price of a PS3 = 2500 hours of gaming in a internetbar.

 ah, i just saw i report someone posted on the thread saying consoles were banned