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GamerXL said:
what area? making games? making hardware? selling stuff?
MS is such a success story.. who knew such a no name company could have thrived so wonderfully in the video game market!!!
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Halo 2 in Japan: People can't even GIVE it away!!!
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what area? making games? making hardware? selling stuff?
MS is such a success story.. who knew such a no name company could have thrived so wonderfully in the video game market!!!
Same can be said for using XBox as basis - the thing is a failure everywhere outside US (ok, and Australia if you want to count it separately), so apparently the only market that's necessary is US.
Europe, Japan, etc. are all irellevant after all!
Dammit Lyte, you could have let them spin around in circles for awhile longer
!CrimsonSkies
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That's fine. I personally couldn't list you 5 games from Japan I've felt were worth my money this gen. I say we enjoy our games, and they enjoy their "games".
On my PS2 I get games like Jak 3, Sly Cooper, etc. Very few Japanese games even on that system.
On my PS2 I get games like Jak 3, Sly Cooper, etc. Very few Japanese games even on that system.
Fafalada said:Same can be said for using XBox as basis - the thing is a failure everywhere outside US (ok, and Australia if you want to count it separately), so apparently the only market that's necessary is US.
Europe, Japan, etc. are all irellevant after all!
Dammit Lyte, you could have let them spin around in circles for awhile longer
Uh, yeah...ok.
Warm Machine
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The Japanese were far ahead of the NA or European game developers for a long while. When NA and Eur devs finally caught on how to make great appealing games the entire industry shifted.
Wintermute
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kpop100 said:
Welcome to try. In all seriousness Osaka is a pit - it's fortunate though that it is populated with decent Japanese people. If I didn't have to work in Namba/Shinsaibashi I would never go there - that place always manages to put me on edge and give me a headache. My girlfriend is a born and bred Osaka girl - the best girlfriend I've ever had. Her family are so kind to me as well given that I am a gaijin. My GF says the same thing, Osaka isn't a place you want to set down roots.
Panajev2001a
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Lyte Edge said:S'okay because they don't know WHO it is.
True, we do not know.
But the trees in Nagano, which he regularly bitchslaps, do know who he is.
Panajev2001a
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CVXFREAK said:
... uhm...
GamerXL said:
Yeah. How about you come back when XBox is profitible? Then you can say that they don't need the Jap market to survive. Xbox is not surviving on its own. Money from other places are keeping it alive. Halo 2 will probably give MS its first profit this quarter but Halo 2 doesn't come out every 3 months.
Brofist
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Wintermute said:
First off no Osaka native would admit somewhere else in Japan is better, even if they felt that way
Not that I don't believe you of course, that's just very strange.Second, cmon..on edge, headaches? Have you even been to a dangerous area? I'm originally from CT...Hartford, Bridgeport. those are pits my friend.
I mean Amemura is a pit I'll give you that. Umeda is nice though, and there are nice areas even in Namba/Shinsaibashi again outside of Amemura. So if you commute to Osaka where do you live (area, not address or anything
). I mean if you're coming from Nara or some shit then I can understand how you feel maybe. I've been to Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kyoto, they are all nice places, but none has the personality of Osaka from my experience. Great people, food, atmosphere. The only place I really want to check out one day is Sapporo, I hear great things.
Blackace
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kpop100 said:First off no Osaka native would admit somewhere else in Japan is better, even if they felt that way
Second, cmon..on edge, headaches? Have you even been to a dangerous area? I'm originally from CT...Hartford, Bridgeport. those are pits my friend.
I mean Amemura is a pit I'll give you that. Umeda is nice though, and there are nice areas even in Namba/Shinsaibashi again outside of Amemura. So if you commute to Osaka where do you live (area, not address or anything
My girl says she wants to work here... then, if you...we....ummm.....sett...se...se...t....settle down maybe we'll go to stay in Osaka...better known as O-town!
alejob..sigh.
I wish I could sufficiently express how little I care about M$ being profitable. I mean, really, I do not care.
Besides, M$ knew they weren't going to make much money with the first XBOX. And as a gamer, I could care less.
This is where someone says "but if they don't make money they'll get out of the biz" and blah, blah, blah.
That's their problem. Give me the games and I'll play them until they don't make them anymore. Simple. I'll let people like fret over rise and fall of their stock.
I wish I could sufficiently express how little I care about M$ being profitable. I mean, really, I do not care.
Besides, M$ knew they weren't going to make much money with the first XBOX. And as a gamer, I could care less.
This is where someone says "but if they don't make money they'll get out of the biz" and blah, blah, blah.
That's their problem. Give me the games and I'll play them until they don't make them anymore. Simple. I'll let people like fret over rise and fall of their stock.
This thread is an excellent example of a professional troll at his most inventive. Kudos to this international, special effects filled troll.
But this is the saddest part of the subsequent decay:
Now while I am quite aware this is a fact of life in Japan, it's still completely disgusting. If the poster had been in America, saying the same thing about his Japanese girlfriend, we would assume his countrymen were racist crackers.
Back on topic (kind of) does anyone know if Katamari of any sort is planned for PSP?
But this is the saddest part of the subsequent decay:
Now while I am quite aware this is a fact of life in Japan, it's still completely disgusting. If the poster had been in America, saying the same thing about his Japanese girlfriend, we would assume his countrymen were racist crackers.
Back on topic (kind of) does anyone know if Katamari of any sort is planned for PSP?
alejob said:Ok then, so you don't care about japan, you don't care about MS making money, good for you. Now if only you didn't care about other people caring about it then we wouldn't be here would we?. No problem thats why GAF is for.
Of course I care about Japan. I have friends there and immensely enjoy Sega and Team Ninja games. Where'd you get that from.
No, I don't care if M$ makes money. Why should I? I don't work for them or own any stock.
Late Stage Marxist
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Wow, Japan sucks. :lol
Wait a minute did you say free? Japan rocks!
Wait a minute did you say free? Japan rocks!
Kobun Heat
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This thread is about JAPAN!
Damn, I have to be really picky with the words to use.
It gave me the impresion that you didn't care about how Japan does when you said it doesn't matter.
And I didn't mean you didn't care about MS making money, I meant you didn't care if MS has a healthy/stable/self preserving videogame business, which is slightly different.
It gave me the impresion that you didn't care about how Japan does when you said it doesn't matter.
And I didn't mean you didn't care about MS making money, I meant you didn't care if MS has a healthy/stable/self preserving videogame business, which is slightly different.
TheGreenGiant
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Japan fucking rocks. ANy country that gives us Mecha games, fucking ninjas and superfly plumbers is a fantastic nation
Haters be damned.
Haters be damned.
Mr_Furious
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No there's not, atleast where Microsoft is concernednubbe said::lol
There is still hope
FortNinety
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Christ this topic is like 17 degrees of awesomeness.
Wintermute
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Stinkles said:
Have you lived in Japan before? The fact is that Japanese people are extremely xenophobic. People in Osaka aren't so bad but one day I went to Wakayama and I was actually spat at for no other reason I could think of other than my being a foreigner. I could tell you a lot of stories about uyoko vans that drive around as well. I had no intention of dating a Japanese woman because initially I didn't plan to stay longer than a year but plans changed and she is something special. I was worried about how her family would react to me given my previous experiences.
kpop100: I live about an hour away from Namba. America Mura is perhaps the worst part of Osaka (IMO) - I can't spend more than 30 minutes down there without feeling the need to bolt to the nearest subway entrance. It's more to do with the pollution and the amount of people in Namba that puts me off the place. Umeda is an okay place, it's busy all of the time but at the very least it is clean(er). I'm moving to Toyonaka in the new year which I'm pretty happy about - a nicer area that is close to Umeda. If I didn't have to commute to Namba each ay it would be a perfect scenario.
