EPTOn February 16 2010 14:27 TheBeardedWonder wrote:
Starcraft isn't kawaii enough.
Starcraft isn't kawaii enough.
This.
Games like sf4 blazblue kof doa are the major games in Japan.
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kyzers0ze
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Tom Phoenix
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On February 16 2010 14:24 geetarzero wrote: So, as a vietnamese-american, what I've noticed a lot recently is that on SC-related websites like TL or gosugamers.net there tend to be a lot more players from vietnam than there are from japan. I just wanted to hear some possible reasons for this from people, seeing as how japan is obviously a developed country and is not some kind of backwater ditch. One thing that instantly occured to me was the overall cultural difference possibly, but I'd like to hear any other ideas. I do not claim to be an expert on Japan, but I think there is a very simple reason for this and that is the fact that PC gaming was never really all that popular in Japan. Consoles and handhelds have preety much dominated the Japanese market throughout gaming history. Even nowadays, you would be hard pressed to think of a Japanese company (outside of hentai/dating sim/Touhou project game developers) that produces games for the PC platform (and even then, the product is most likely multiplatform and aimed at the markets outside Japan as well). So it should come as no suprise that there are relatively few PC gamers in Japan. That said, we kind of owe StarCraft`s popularity in Korea to Japan`s obssession with consoles/handhelds. Due to Korea`s (partial) ban on Japanese goods, consoles were never able to make much of a splash on the Korean market. This, combined with enormous investments in IT technology by the South Korean goverment, resulted in a enormous popularity of PC gaming, which provided fertile ground for a game like StarCraft. EDIT: Also, the fact that PC gaming is not big in Japan makes it all the more nerve wrecking that Capcom never released the PC version of Gyakuten Saiban outside of Japan. T_T Another ironic fact is that there is a Japanese version of StarCraft. | ||
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Achromic
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On February 16 2010 14:27 TheBeardedWonder wrote: Starcraft isn't kawaii enough. That too. | ||
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