Why Are Japanese-Developed Games Less Popular?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @06:41AM from the mahjong-next-breakthrough-western-hit dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their 'Sole Food' editorial discussing the decline of the Japanese-developed videogame in the U.S. console charts. The article doesn't deny there are still big Japanese-developed hits in the West, but suggests: "It's not uncommon for there to be only two or three Japanese games among the top 20 sellers each month; this would have been unheard of less than ten years ago." As for explanations, it's argued that "Western developers are doing a better job of servicing core genres that are popular in the U.S.", but a "financial and creative slump" in the Japanese games industry is also blamed - "A quick glance through the games shown at last weekend's Tokyo Game Show reveals little that is truly new."

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What you say?! by Rayonic · 2003-10-01 06:56 · Score: 4, Funny

Gamers being U.S. are of not text liking schoolchildren by translated?!

MOVE ZIG!

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Re:Isn't it obvious? by Kalak · 2003-10-01 07:01 · Score: 4, Funny

In other news, Chinese developed video games sell poorly in Africa and someone in Tibet eats a pizza for the first time and declares: "What is this s^&t?"

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Re:Maybe people got bored... by Winterblink · 2003-10-01 09:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Don't forget the top notch jiggle physics.

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