EPTWhy isn't SC2 big in Japan?
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echobong
Canada92 Posts
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Eknoid4
United States902 Posts
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Dyllyn
Singapore670 Posts
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Phant
United States737 Posts
That...and Poke'mon, and anything else made by Nintendo, eats up all their time! | ||
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TArujo
Portugal1687 Posts
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NukeTheBunnys
United States1004 Posts
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okuraku
United States210 Posts
I think the biggest reason SC and WoW are not big in Japan is that they aren't localized there.. so just starting to consider it you are in the realm of "underground" and "youge". Which, is still fairly large - PC youge's have a fairly good following but they don't typically hit mainstream... I think another big factor is that PC gaming is fairly small because of the cost of entry both moneywise and how much space you need (don't laugh, there's a reason the first nintendo was called Family Computer). Also, PC gaming as you know is saturated with eroge & dating sims, If you go to any old non-import PC game soft store I guarantee upwards of 75% of the inventory will be those. MMOs are about the only thing that gets "big" in Japan on PC gaming side, I would say. Mostly because they aren't that available on consoles (yet). Just want to summarize that I think the lack of localization of basically any blizzard game (no sparkling history like they have elsewhere) is the biggest factor. I mean consider if SC2 wasn't localized to South Korean (I know, farfetched).. would it be as big as it is, if you had to jump through all kinds of hoops to even buy the thing & then log onto a server outside of your country? | ||
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Keitzer
United States2509 Posts
Sony PSP = handheld console (which don't have RTS) Nintendo franchise (alot) = (handheld) console (which don't have RTS) Fighting games = not RTS Pokemon = not RTS so as you can see. Almost every game that comes out of Japan is either on a system that isn't good at all for RTS, or just not an RTS straight up. So all the would-be japanese RTS players are having too much fun playing SF4, Mario, and Pokemon (obv others but for the sake of argument) and don't know too much, or don't care too much, to play RTS at a competitive level like the Koreans, who don't make any games as far as i know. | ||
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BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
 hints:consoles, H-games. | ||
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StarSense
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drag_
England425 Posts
The reason to me seems that most people in Japan do not use PC's that much in general. When I was living there, almost everyone I knew liked to play games, but there a lot of local arcades and whatever which are much more popular than pc's. Also handheld consoles dominate a lot more than PC's. It's just not really a computer culture I guess. | ||
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MusiK
United States302 Posts
SC2 really has no place there. But plenty Japanese do play SC2, just not as a nation. | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
They are the Korea of Tekken, Street Fighter, crossup games etc. Daigo is the combination of boxer oov nada flash jaedong in one. | ||
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Piski
Finland3461 Posts
So it's not like there isn't any PC players, but they are quite a minority | ||
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okuraku
United States210 Posts
On October 15 2010 02:34 Piski wrote: In Japan console games are a huge market, pc market not so much.. When I was there I saw only one add for SC2 and it was at it's release. So it's not like there isn't any PC players, but they are quite a minority You sure about that? I'm pretty sure SC2 isn't available in Japan unless it's imported, and they'd have zero reason to advertise for it in that case.. http://kotaku.com/5590298/where-isnt-starcraft-ii-launching | ||
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StimCraft
United States144 Posts
On October 15 2010 02:25 Eknoid4 wrote: Probably because Japan makes and plays its own games a lot more. Also, there is no K-On in starcraft 2. LOL. and ff14 (mmo) just went into beta i believe | ||
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shou0630
China30 Posts
User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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Borked
221 Posts
 my favourite country in the far east. | ||
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
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Tekin
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