This country still confuses the crap out of me with their likes and dislikes.
http://kotaku.com/5078486/grand-theft-a ... t-in-japan
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GTA4 outsells LBP....in Japan? O_o
- Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Odd. A game like LBP should have been a license to print money in Japan.
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Oh yeah, there's a couple of big horse racing/sim series' over there. Odd, huh?Tessian wrote:LoL what?!?! I agree that Asian gamers seem to love grinding, but wtf @ horses??bovine wrote:japanese don't like games based on creation. They crave games build around repetition and managing horses.
Bov hit it on the head, they're not into user-created stuff. That's just something they've never liked
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
it didn't sell well in North America either. It just isn't a very marketable game.
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I saw an ad for LBP when I went and saw Zack and Miri Make a Porno last night. It didn't really say anything about the game at all. If the game was a singleplayer experience with no creativity required it would be a terribly shitty game. However, the user created content really IS the product here, so to not say anything about that or the multiplayer is probably the worst way to advertise.
I've actually heard great things about the built-in platforming levels. One review I saw stated that the game was worth the purchase even without the creator. However, I agree with you since that is probably the draw for 99% of the people out there. Why not publicize the thing that makes the game unique in an ocean of games?
