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Topic	What do you think it is mostly why xbox consoles sell so terribly in japan?
Deganawidah 07/15/17 12:06:37 PM #36:	UT1999 posted... OneTimeBen posted... OSarcasthma posted... hoggys2much99 posted... Simple. It is because it is not Japanese technology. The Japanese seem to have a hatred for tech that isn't Japanese. Unless it's Apple. Or a F-15 good pts there. I've also heard that the japanese people really love apple over there. Has anybody ever heard about china? Which sells better over there? xbox or ps? Heck what about korea? I don't have any exact figures, but I can speak from general knowledge and experience regarding game consoles in South Korea. In Korea, PC gaming is much bigger than console gaming. This is the result of a number of factors. Korean game companies tend to make more PC games (which itself partly results from the other factors). MMORPGS, multiplayer RTS games, and MOBAs tend to be big there, and these tend to be on PC. "PC rooms" (sort of like internet cafes but with gaming quality PCs already in place there with all the popular games installed) are plentiful and popular in Korea, which further supports playing of online PC games and helps spread the popularity. Many game companies offer PC room versions of their games which allow a player to access content for which they would otherwise have to pay (this was true of League of Legends when I was playing it there), or other methods of allowing players to try out things at the PC room. So, in general PCs tend to be the dominant platform. They do have consoles in Korea, and they are getting more popular in recent years, but it's a smaller market share relative to Japan and the West. Part of this has to do with politics and trade. Up until the late 90s or early 2000s (I forget when exactly it changed off the top of my head), Japanese companies could not directly export products to South Korea to be sold on the Korean market (this was a lingering effect of the poor relations between the Koreas and Japan after Japan annexed Korea for 35 years until 1945). What they did do was establish relationships with Korean companies (e.g. Sega with Samsung, Nintendo with Hyundai, etc.) for the Korean companies to manufacture and sell the consoles in Korea under license. But sold and people were aware of them, but it seems they were not marketed as well or as aggressively. Plus, it was still known they Japanese products (the original Japanese company's logo remained on the console, in addition to that of the Korean company). In more recent years (meaning the past decade or so), consoles have been gaining a bit in popularity, but PCs still dominate. There are some places similar to PC rooms that have game consoles available to play. I've mostly seen various Playstation consoles and Wii and Wii U in these settings. In fact, the common name for these places is "Peulseubang", which is a contraction of "PlayStation Room" in Korean. Portable consoles like the DS and 3DS are the most popular because they fill a niche that PCs cannot. In short, console gaming has a presence in Korea, but it is relatively much smaller than PC gaming when compared to Japan and the West. In the 80's and 90's, the major consoles being Japanese held back their market penetration in Korea due to politics. Consoles gaming, especially portables, has grown a bit in the past decade, but still takes a definite backseat to PC gaming, which remains hugely popular. Side note: I did pick up a few Korean versions of games for the DS there such as Super Mario 64 DS. They work on the American version of the console, the only difference between the language used in the game. --- "History is the road map and without it there is no way to navigate the future." - George Wunderlich <cite>Deganawidah posted [p:882957636] in What do yo... [t:75567585]...</cite> <quote><cite>UT1999 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>OneTimeBen posted...</cite> <quote>O<cite>Sarcasthma posted...</cite> <quote><cite>hoggys2much99 posted...</cite> <quote>Simple. It is because it is not Japanese technology. The Japanese seem to have a hatred for tech that isn't Japanese.</quote> Unless it's Apple.</quote> Or a F-15</quote> good pts there. I've also heard that the japanese people really love apple over there. Has anybody ever heard about china? Which sells better over there? xbox or ps? Heck what about korea?</quote> I don't have any exact figures, but I can speak from general knowledge and experience regarding game consoles in South Korea. In Korea, PC gaming is much bigger than console gaming. This is the result of a number of factors. Korean game companies tend to make more PC games (which itself partly results from the other factors). MMORPGS, multiplayer RTS games, and MOBAs tend to be big there, and these tend to be on PC. "PC rooms" (sort of like internet cafes but with gaming quality PCs already in place there with all the popular games installed) are plentiful and popular in Korea, which further supports playing of online PC games and helps spread the popularity. Many game companies offer PC room versions of their games which allow a player to access content for which they would otherwise have to pay (this was true of League of Legends when I was playing it there), or other methods of allowing players to try out things at the PC room. So, in general PCs tend to be the dominant platform. They do have consoles in Korea, and they are getting more popular in recent years, but it's a smaller market share relative to Japan and the West. Part of this has to do with politics and trade. Up until the late 90s or early 2000s (I forget when exactly it changed off the top of my head), Japanese companies could not directly export products to South Korea to be sold on the Korean market (this was a lingering effect of the poor relations between the Koreas and Japan after Japan annexed Korea for 35 years until 1945). What they did do was establish relationships with Korean companies (e.g. Sega with Samsung, Nintendo with Hyundai, etc.) for the Korean companies to manufacture and sell the consoles in Korea under license. But sold and people were aware of them, but it seems they were not marketed as well or as aggressively. Plus, it was still known they Japanese products (the original Japanese company's logo remained on the console, in addition to that of the Korean company). In more recent years (meaning the past decade or so), consoles have been gaining a bit in popularity, but PCs still dominate. There are some places similar to PC rooms that have game consoles available to play. I've mostly seen various Playstation consoles and Wii and Wii U in these settings. In fact, the common name for these places is "Peulseubang", which is a contraction of "PlayStation Room" in Korean. Portable consoles like the DS and 3DS are the most popular because they fill a niche that PCs cannot. In short, console gaming has a presence in Korea, but it is relatively much smaller than PC gaming when compared to Japan and the West. In the 80's and 90's, the major consoles being Japanese held back their market penetration in Korea due to politics. Consoles gaming, especially portables, has grown a bit in the past decade, but still takes a definite backseat to PC gaming, which remains hugely popular. Side note: I did pick up a few Korean versions of games for the DS there such as Super Mario 64 DS. They work on the American version of the console, the only difference between the language used in the game. --- "History is the road map and without it there is no way to navigate the future." - George Wunderlich</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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