Reason #823 why Japanese Arcade is better than the American counterpart

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Kenryoku_Maxis on 21 September 2009

twesterm said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

twesterm said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Arcades in America have been dying for years. Now you can only find them in big cities. Heck, even on the west coast in cities like LA, San Diego and San Fransisco they're going out of business. People can just find the majority of the games they bring over on consoles. And the few they can't aren't as big as something like a DDR use to be. I can remember when Soul Calibur II was coming out, and no Arcade was picking it up. That's how bad Arcades had gotten, and that was 8 years ago.

In Asia, they're still big. Even bigger in other Asian countries outside of Japan like China, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. And there's no question why, when they get WAY more games. But also, some of those countries don't have as much focus on console gaming as we do.

How is the internet in places in Asia? Do a lot of people have broadband there?

I imagine that's why arcades are more or less dead in America (I don't know why they're still popular in Japan other than they love things like the OP's game that you can't really do at home) is because you can get the social gaming experience at home now.

I know that PC gaming is pretty much the fastest growing (and largest) market for China and Korea. Other Asian nations seem to have a large market for the internet as well. A huge chunk of Ebay and Amazons markets are from the international scene. And of course MMOs and certain other PC genres are king in Asia.

But isn't a lot of it done at internet cafes and the likes and not at home?

Yeah, and that's partially why the PC and Arcade markets are much bigger than the Console market. A lot of people in Asia don't have the disposable income to buy a 200-600 (at the time of launch) dollar equivilant console. And its even more expensive in their country than in Japan/US/Europe.

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