Guys come on. This is getting ridiculous. While I have a preference to Eastern Games, I cannot deny the amount of quality and quantity that Western devs have put out.

Assassin's Creed 3 in Japan???

I wouldn't say market saturation has much to do with it.  Yeah, market saturation ensures a game's success, but the lack of market saturation doesn't inhibit a game's success.  Games like Monster Hunter became a phomenon in Japan in just a few years.  Same goes for Call of Duty in North America.  New IPs like Devil May Cry garnered decent success in both the East and West as of their first iteration.  Japanese games, old and new, don't really struggle in the West unless they are completely devoid of marketing.  Western titles, old and new (3D GTA has been around for nine years now), do fine in the West while they struggle in Japan just about every time.

Final Fantasy wasn't even very popular until they gave it a 100 million dollar marketing campaign for FF7, then all kinds of RPGs were selling in the west after that.  I kinda wonder if anyone has ever tried something like that in Japan. 

But you just made all the points yourself to why market saturation is ultimately the goal.  For a 'new' IP to be successful, it requires marketing to do well.  And for a series to have long-term success, it requires market saturation to gain a fanbase.  Which requires continued marketing and hype.

So market saturation has a ton to do with why many of these western games aren't doing well.  Same with why some Japanese series aren't doing well, like Dragon Quest or Mana for SquareEnix.

Yes, there's always a few random examples of games that do well without marketing, like Disgaea in America or Metroid Prime in Japan.  But in the end, games need to push marketing and saturation to ultimately succeed.  Especially with all the barriers of a Japanese fanbase who is overlooking western games.

Final Fantasy II and III (US) were mildly popular for their time.  They even put a lot of ads in Magazines and gave away free stuff to hype the game.  And the SNES FF games did a lot to hype established FF fans for FFVII before the advertising obsession.  But yeah, what made Final Fantasy explode to what it is today was that 'unprecedented' ad campaign for FFVII.  Which was the most expensive ad campaign for a game up to that time (and quite a time after).

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well considering the best selling HD game in Japan sold 700k, games like GTA and Call of Duty have done really well.  Halo, Resistance, Fable, Gears of War, Oblivion, most games that have a big budget have a market in Japan.  GTA and Call of Duty sales are right up there with games like Dynsasty Warriors 6, Tales of Vesperia, and Devil May Cry 4.  Yes they haven't reached the success of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, or Monster hunter, but outside of Nintendo games very few games do at all. 

A weeaboo is typically a white suburban youth in the west emulating wayyyy too much Eastern (specifically Japanese) culture. usually doing so by speaking a few key-words Japanese, listening to J-rock (pop rather) and read manga, while secretely masturbating to tentacle rape. They are generally what the Japanese refer to as an Egg. White outside, yellow inside.

I've never heard FPS having that massive footing in Japan. Maybe it's the wrong game. Maybe they should focus on something else.

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" Western Games > Japanese Games.... GT5 (yeah its made in Japan, but for a mostly western audience),"


this is a classic.


Japanese like their racing as much as any other country.

wow. really. wow.

quality is subjective.

race is not.

don't mix these two things together please.

i'm american, but come on, there is no way the japanese are biased towards western games.
and american's are in no way biased towards eastern/japanese made games.

different cultures, different tastes is all it is.

if western developers want a significant share of the japanese market then they should ADAPT. Duhh!! Any company can do that.

Some of the best companies/developers in the world adapt to different cultures in order to cater to more audience. seriously?!? and all these Western games>Japanese games, vice versa are getting spewed out too like their facts...no just no....

Maybe japanese game makers need to borrow more western elements in order for their games to appeal more to western markets. Market them how people like it and it should sell! Maybe western game makers could do the same....