Any idea on why Daxter(PSP title) was never released in Japan?

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Globox82 on 23 September 2007

W29 said:

hunter_alien said:
GTA did well , but far as good as in the US . ratchet Didi surprisingly well and was the first western game PS2 bundle in Japan ... why is that ? Many say that Ratchet has Japanese eyes and thats why :P

You know why? SCEJ made Ismoniac Games or whatever how you spell there name to change their eyes so the game can attract the Japanese.

Japanese eyes? Since when Japanese have big round eyes?

The thing they "change" are eyebrows. They make them a lot thicker and bigger

Proof http://www.gametrailers.com/player/25202.html

there is also American version so you can compare them.

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a.l.e.x59 on 23 September 2007

Proof that Crash Bandicoot owns Jak and Daxter! Crash sold so much in Japan, but Jak didn't, because compared to Crash, Jak sucks! Sure, Jak is good, compared to the mountains of garbage, of other video games, but the second you compare him to Sony's classic, goto boy, Jak sinks below sea level, and the Japanese know this!

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a.l.e.x59 said:
Proof that Crash Bandicoot owns Jak and Daxter! Crash sold so much in Japan, but Jak didn't, because compared to Crash, Jak sucks! Sure, Jak is good, compared to the mountains of garbage, of other video games, but the second you compare him to Sony's classic, goto boy, Jak sinks below sea level, and the Japanese know this!

I think you suck dick a lot, like that Mario in your avatar. BTW-Back than, that old successful crash was made by the same team "Naughty Dog". They also made Jak& Daxter you tool!

Now we see how Crash is good, on PS2 it sucked because other studios are making it now. Crash looks/sounds and feels like brainless retard compared to Jak.

And you and Mario suck to. Now GO AWAY FREAK!

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BenKenobi88 on 23 September 2007

Globox gets a week ban for personal attacking.

alex59, this is a warning. STOP telling people that certain games suck or whatever...these are your opinions, and you only make people angry when you do so.

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leo-j on 19 January 2008

Daxter is on the ps2? wtf?

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insomniac17 on 19 January 2008

Globox82 said:
First Ratchet sold well (around 580k) because it was bundled with PS2. So it gives you this false impression that people actually went there and bought that game specifically. It is something similar to Motorstorm bundle in US. 20k every week since bundle was released, before that more like 5k if not less(cant check now). So conclusion is, first game sold well because of the bundle. Second sold 250k in Japan -50% without bundle and with bigger install base. And third sold 310k with biggest install base at that time even that is not so good.

So all this talk how Japanese like "some" and than using Ratchet games as example...i mean how pathetic is that?

Forza 2 is good example. Japanese love driving simulations and probably second best driving simulation after GT sold only 40k with install base of 440k 360 sold in Japan!? It didn't move units, not one bit.

Yes they are racist and ego tripped. Just listen to latest 1Up podcast where Ryan Payton(works for Konami) talk a little about this phenom that Japanese don't like western games.

They must have liked it somewhat or they wouldn't have bought the bundle. The fact that it was the first western game to be bundled in Japan is impressive.

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