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Sony Bringing PlayStation To China
VentureBeat reports that one market formerly closed to console makers is opening up in a big way. An excerpt:
"One month after Microsoft announced its launching the Xbox One in China this September, Sony today announced that its PlayStation business is coming to the world’s most populous country. It’s unclear which PlayStation hardware and games will come to China — or when — but it’s reasonable to assume Sony will bring its PlayStation 4 console (and perhaps its PlayStation Vita handheld) to China later this year. The Chinese game industry is already worth $13 billion, most of which gets spent on PC and mobile. That’s not console makers’ fault: China implemented a console ban in 2000, saying it would protect children from violent video games. As soon as the Chinese Ministry of Culture said it would begin working on new rules, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony all expressed interest in bringing their consoles to the country. Like Microsoft, which is working with Chinese media firm BesTV to bring the Xbox One to China, Sony also has a local partner: Shanghai Oriental Pearl Culture Development (OPCD). Both OPCD and BesTV are subsidiaries of China’s Shanghai Media Group."
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Business is coming to the world’s most populous country! That's a fat juicy market, ripe to be sucked!
Article is poorly researched/does not explain why this official Nintendo 64 machine wasn't considered a "console" for the purposed of the 2000 console ban.
Soon the Chinese will be as fat and lazy as that guy, you know, the one in all the statues, I'm way too fat and lazy to remember his name right now, oh dude, pizza's ready, like awesome.
Consoles are everywhere in China... they just aren't legal. This isn't going to open up a huge market... the market is already open.
Besides that, just because the consoles are now legal that doesn't mean all the games will be allowed to be published in China.... just ask the Book and Movie industry about China...
Funny, I just read: China is behind in training future drone pilots and intends to catch up.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
I like the quote at the end of TFA: “Things that are hostile to China, or not in conformity with the outlook of China’s government, won’t be allowed [under the new rules]” said Ministry of Culture head Cai Wu earlier this year. “We want to open the window a crack to get some fresh air, but we still need a screen to block the flies and mosquitoes.”
I like how they're worried about cracking the window when - given that actual PCs are already widespread - the door is basically wide open for anyone who cares to turn the knob.
Given how consoles have gone with China, I wouldn't be surprised to see a corresponding increase in piracy.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
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world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Go to any computer market in China and there is typically a whole floor or large area dedicated to games. In Chengdu, for example, at the digital plaza computer market, there are maybe 8 or 9 mini-shops in the plaza which sell every console available, hardware accessories, and booklets with sleeves/printed covers to pick out SKUs of the pirated copy of game you'd like. Banned. Hardly enforced.
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A Chinese console has to compete with rampant piracy. It needs a large game library at a low price per title. It's not going to be the PS4. The PS2 is too old now. I predict an evenslimmer PS3.
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They'll do it by either removing the disc drive or by disabling the ability to play bluray games but leaving the ability to play bluray movies. They have the ability and infrastructure on the PS4 (and Xbox One) to run those systems as "games as a service" systems the way Steam does, and the only reason they did not was due to public outcry in the west after Microsoft's announcement. There will be no used game market, no piracy, and the games will be digital only, tied to a single piece of hardware and account.
It will be much easier for the Chinese government to monitor households with the 'blackboxes' that are game consoles. Expect audio video, and motion detect to be always 'on' and remotely accessible through government mandated backdoors. Expect government sanctioned games to monitor behaviour and in the cleverer versions, to modify behaviour and opinions in subtle ways eg. evil game characters bearing a resemblance to persons condemned by the state, such as foreign leaders, human rights activists, etc.
But buy more shares in MS and Sony if you want to make some money.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Sony is the oriental Japanese flavour of Wall St. I'd prefer to see Nintendo getting some presence there too. What of the Wii?
All that whining over OtherOS being removed and Geohot being prosecuted was Sony protecting their platform from piracy.
The reason for the removal of OtherOS was the (Risks? associated with the Other OS being outweighed!? by) the tax benefits imposed on importing consoles into the EU as computers being withdrawn. A feature available since the PS2.
I personally lament the loss of this feature. More so with the introduction of this generation of hardware which simply preform better as full computers not appliances and the massive strides GNU/Linux has made.
The worst of it is...is it became about "hating" on Sony, not a real campaign for more open devices or tax incentives to be so. The result is the Xbox One (Surface RT...iDevices etc etc)
I haven't held a PS3 in some time or a PS4 ever, but being as >>>99% of all consumer goods sold in the US are made in China, it would seem reasonable to bet on these to be Chinese made as well. In which case, would they be able to sell them straight off the assembly line, or would they have to export / re-import them to sell?
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The article say it is to protect the children but look at the games children play here in mainland - CS, LoL, violent game on PC.