Japanese Game Awards Honor Taiko, Auto

Posted by simoniker on Thursday October 30, 2003 @11:12AM from the bang-drum-hijack-car dept.

Thanks to IGN for their announcement of the Japanese CESA videogame award winners for 2002-2003. The videogame trade body "awarded its grand prize to both Final Fantasy XI (Square-Enix, PS2/PC) and Taiko no Tatsujin (Namco, PS2). The latter title, while still not available in America, has proven to be a sensation in Japan, with non-stop arcade play and two PS2 versions combining for sales of over a million units." Of Western titles, Bungie's Halo was given an "award for excellence" alongside several Japanese-authored games, and Grand Theft Auto III, which has already sold over 200,000 in Japan, got the 'Global Award' for overseas-developed games.

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Re:Taiko no Tatsujin = Master of the Drum by Babbster · 2003-10-30 13:11 · Score: 3, Insightful

Reminds me of the generalizations (which were rampant on Slashdot game discussions) that said the Japanese market wouldn't respond to Grand Theft Auto 3 because it was just too pointlessly violent. Maybe if the marketing departments of the big publishers weren't so devoted to their narrow perceptions of the various markets, all gamers would be more appreciative of a wider variety of genres.