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Japanese Survey Shows Tricky Market For Western Games

Posted by simoniker on from the rising-sun-falling-hopes dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for their article discussing the results of a survey of over 1,000 Japanese gamers, conducted at this year's Tokyo Game Show. Among the more telling trends was a definite lack of interest in Western-developed games: "The percentage of respondents currently own non-Japanese software? Just over 1 percent. And only 4 percent expressed interest in buying such software in the future." The survey also revealed the true dominance of the RPG in Japan, as "...39 percent of respondents identified it as their favorite genre. This is far ahead of every other genre: strategy gaming, the second most popular choice, tallied only 7 percent of the votes." Finally, although it may be that Tokyo Game Show attendees "tend to be hardcore gamers", thus skewing the results, "ownership of [Xbox] ranked lower than five consoles that aren't even in production", including the Dreamcast and Saturn.

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  1. Japan doesn't like anything foreign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How convinient for them we have spineless politicians who agree to soak up their exports like a sponge with little reciprocation on their part. They don't like foreign Gaijin polluting their homogenous society, either. Fortunately this is going to bite them in the ass when their demographic time bomb explodes and they run out of young workers to pay the old folks pensions.

    Its called "schadenfreude".

  2. They don't like our games? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How many A-Bombs do we have to drop on these bastards until Japan recognizes that red, white and blue got game?