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- truspector, on 10/10/2007, -23/+132If Halo 3 featured giant mech warriors who went around raping ten year old school girls and screaming mega tensi super happy time, the 360 would overtake the wii and DS combined in Japan.
- doshindude, on 10/11/2007, -6/+93Um, yeah, Japan hates the xbox/halo.
- maldog, on 10/10/2007, -2/+62Pretty impressive considering there's only 3 Xbox owners in Japan
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/10/2007, -10/+66And there's no tentacle rape in the game.
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/10/2007, -13/+67I'll have to add the fact that it probably also has to do with the Master Chief as a male protagonist not looking like a transgender/androgynous person with spiky hair.
- SnuKs, on 10/10/2007, -3/+40Different tastes man. They probably look at us sayin we're the worst gamers cause we wont like it unless we can blow ***** up, kill innocent people [ala GTA], have a wide array of weapon choice, and spill buckets of blood, all while getting fat on our Halo game fuel.
Atleast in Japan and Korea they praise gamers. Here we just call them nerds =P - Sirocco, on 10/10/2007, -4/+39Because Japanese developers don't support it. Simple as that. They don't want FPS/Sports/Racing games, which is what the Xbox is mired in.
- bpapa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33You're wrong. This theory was debunked long ago on Digg, Japan doesn't hate American companies. iPods, for example, are huge there. The fact is that there are very few games on the XBox that appeal to Japanese gamers.
- navster15, on 10/10/2007, -6/+36To anyone bitching about this, consider that Dragon Quest VIII (the BIGGEST franchise in Japan) sold less than 100,000 copies in America. Maybe we should wonder why we aren't buying their ***** before we bitch about them not buying our *****.
- mandarin, on 10/10/2007, -15/+44using 'japs' is offensive.
- raitchison, on 10/10/2007, -13/+41I think a large part of it is the fact that it's not a Japanese company that is competing with two Japanese companies.
- trer, on 10/10/2007, -7/+34You idiots are really some narrow-minded pieces of crap. Sure Japanese people aren't buying American produced video games as much as their own stuff, but how does this correlate to "zealous nationalism" and "they don't like things from America"? I guess you people don't know that there is a vast population in Japan OUTSIDE THE VIDEO GAME WORLD. Those people soak up American culture to a fault. If they hate American stuff so much, why do they drink Starbucks, eat McDonalds, love rap/hiphop, watch American movies, play American baseball and worship Amerian celebrities? Where is this "zealous nationalism" you speak of except in the small realm of video games.?
- shinythingy, on 10/10/2007, -24/+48Yeah because they have different tastes they are the worst? Its a different arguably better culture. Being different isn't a bad thing idiot.
- Nimsim, on 10/10/2007, -8/+32I dugg you up for the last part of your comment, but that was before i started thinking: What game has ever given you a life changing experience?
- a0me, on 10/10/2007, -6/+291. Xbox 360 Install Base in Japan: 450,000 units. Halo 3 selling 45,000 units on release day is actually not that bad.
2. Japanese are not interested in/do not understand most SF-themed entertainment, unless it has the name "Gundam" in it.
3. Japanese are not interested in FPS games. Also, the fact that an incredibly high percentage of the population get 3D sickness motion sickness very easily doesn't help the genre. - shinythingy, on 10/10/2007, -7/+301.) Reliability is big to them
2.) It has too many shooters and sports games
3.) The letter X is a negative over there so they don't like a console called the X box - djSyndrome, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22They can always fix that with a patch.
- escheriv, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21I find this amusing, coming from someone who has Sonic as their avatar...
- a0me, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Ever lived in Japan? Ever worked in the game industry, QA, market studies?
That's what I thought. - a0me, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Excerpt from Game Developers Conference:
Market unaccustomed to FPS:
- Motion Sickness
- 3D exploration itself is not recognized as attractive
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20030308/ ... - Nobi-Wan, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21How is a game fun WITHOUT blowing ***** up or buckets of blood?
- shinythingy, on 10/11/2007, -9/+23Is there that many 360's in japan?
- synaesthesia, on 10/10/2007, -10/+24Thats the stupidest ***** i've ever heard.
- JayD16, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17What kind of secret life does truspector lead that takes him under the bridge to meet crack heads for his lunch hour?
- jacksons98, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13A few and they are all owned by Americans.
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/10/2007, -14/+27Zealous Nationalism.
- apoc06, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13trolls live under bridges y'know?
after reading a few of his comments, it all makes sense! - crossgrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12We could probably link you to an article about Ron Paul or something.
- staticneuron, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15BS. Ipod's sell better than any other japanese mp3 players. Mcdonalds, starbucks, levi jeans (which are purchased at a premium) are huge over there. Coca cola. Western music sells as much as their native japanese albums. Japanese constantly spends alot of money and italian and french fashion.
This nationalistic crap is BS. Only people who are saying this are sheltered westerners who cannot understand the concept of appeal. The library of the 360 does not appeal to most japanese and the titles that were aimed at them turned out to be not that great. Get over yourselves. the japanese people do not hate american products just because the 360 isn't doing well. - aspec, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Are there any sailors around here?
- SgtQuackers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13I thought that that number was bad when I first read the title but compared to Blue Dragon it show that it actual did reasonably well for a Xbox game in Japan
- Coffeedemon, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17"Its a different arguably better culture."
Whats so "better" about ANY culture? Or are you one of those guys I see on the bus dressed like a videogame character to show your extreme appreciation of the "Japanese" culture ... as if everyone over there wears orange silk 'dress' shirts with dragons going up and down the sleeves. - aresef, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13But damned if MS isn't trying.
- NnyCW, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16Which is why Sony's controller has an X on it and so many Japanese games have X in the title (Mega Man alone...)
I'll give you the first two though. - Coffeedemon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Yeah ... you can't see his eye shadow/earrings and when he does speak he's not that emo.
- Tejiant, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Traditionally 2 games move systems in japan. Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Look what Final Fantasy: Crisis Core did for the PSP last month.
I'm sure majority of the 45k Halo 3 has to be japanese gamers, but I wonder what percentage are foreigners getting their fix over there. My ex-navy friend knows many of the armed forces that bought Halo 3 over there. I'm not saying that those guys must have created a huge skew in numbers, but just something I was thinking about. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12So is Brits also a slur?
- drizzlelicious, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13They should've just told the Japanese people that Master Chief was actually a robot mech. And gave anagram names like F.R.U.I.T. and F.R.O.G to everything in the game.
- djSyndrome, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13"Japan is very well known to not buy foreign products, they dont buy German cars"
That's funny, the last time I was in Japan the streets were littered with VW's and Mercedes, especially the Polo and A-Class.
As far as iPods in Japan, Sony abandoned their own Connect service there and is now in talks with Apple to sell Sony artists' songs on iTunes. If that's not an Apple victory, I don't know what is. - jacksons98, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9lol, The site you are referring to isn't Sony fanboys at all. It came out on Digg last week.
http://digg.com/playstation_3/SonyDefenseForce_Own ... - Exhaust, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Ever notice how in Japan the O button is used to accept in game menus and X if for back or cancel? In America X is accept and O is back.
X means NO in Japan. Look it up. The fact that X is in the name of Mega Man means nothing. That is used like Malcolm X.
Its kinda like the Chevy Nova in Mexico. It means No Go. Not a good name for a car that's is supposed to ummmm Go... - Tejiant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9If you've ever imported a PS/PS2 japanese game, you'd know that the "O" is always the "accept/enter/ok" and the "X" is the negative "decline/no/refuse" button on all games from Japan.
It made sense to me, and I always questioned why in the localization process they alway switch them for the NA release making "X" the accept button and the "O" or sometimes the "Square" button the negatives. - RyanBlueThunder, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Let's get sweaty!
- Echuta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Who let you out of your cage?!?
- acarr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8The key to selling anything in Japan.....make it robotic. They love robots.
- thonnie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10There is now orange juice on my laptop. I am typing from my desktop because of you sir. If my laptop is not working by tomorrow (I have a keyboard cover, woohoo!), then I would like to be reimbursed. =). Don't ask me why I found that funny.
- Ellipsys, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Dug up for truth. To be honest, thats why I'm not buying a 360 yet either. Whichever system gets the same glut of Japanese RPGs and "unusual" titles that the PS2 did, that's where I'm going.
- edicius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I used Google Translate on that and this is what it says..."[ekusubokusu] product six it is round"
- pokeyfans, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Honestly, 43,000 in a day for any system in Japan is pretty good. I'm not sure why people are using this as a negative point.
The 360 does have games with anime looks to them and every thing else. It's a stupid thing to bring up. I'm also tired of this xenophobia excuse. They use Windows there, the MSX was hugely popular and that too was a MS product.
The problem comes down to several things:
1.) MS has an uphill battle there because they're the new guy to begin with. Sony at least had hardware (and even previous gaming hardware) experience before the PS1.
2.) The marketing is TERRIBLE and anyone that has spent any time looking at that component there would agree. Even Japanese 360 developers lament this in interviews.
3.) A significant amount of games are released on the 360 and are NOT TRANSLATED INTO JAPANESE. Oblivion, for example, hit Japan quite a while ago in English. The Japanese version only just recently came out there.
MS has made strides there, particularly in terms of developer relationships, but they're still shooting themselves in the foot in different ways. This doesn't just come down to Japanese people being "caaaraaazzzyyy!" and loving tentacle rape. - edicius, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13We are talking about video games, why are you changing the subject?
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