GRID driving Codies to Japan

Well Hope it works out for them and that there will be some Japanese interested in it,Two for one is a great deal if that's how they sell it. But they should have never taken out the V8 Supercars or DTM Touring cars series in Grid or taken Colin McRaes name off of DiRT (in the U.S. version) He had fans here as well. They can keep there F1 game next year! I want a V8 Supercars full season or true WRC game! C'Mon Codies!

Bring back TOCA Touring Cars!

Smart move.

ok i love grid

The Japanese are simply Nationalist, this simply makes it difficult for any 'Western' influences to have any real impact over there. Its really that simple.

well its better 2 than 1

There was a poll not so long ago by some magazine in Japan and all top twenty fave games as voted for by the Japanese public were Japanese games. It'll be very very hard to break into the market for Codies, but the success of Gran(ny) Turismo will pave the way for them.

I found Grid to be one of the better racing games

what makes a racing game aracde is the handling, for GRID's case, it's considered simulation. It's arcade to some ppl because it has some add-on features like flashback and crash derby

"It's both for Ps3 and 360... and this bares ill for GT5." no it won't. one's an arcade racer, the other's a simulator. Gran Turismo has already carved out its share of the market. personally i think both are a bit overrated.

Too bad i don't live in Japan to play some of the games they will make exclusively for Japan.

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Trying to sell your non Japanese game in Japan, would be like trying to sell Kingdom Hearts to a Madden player.

Drift and Touge rocks!

@ -Renegade EA eh? "Their" best games are published by them rather than developed... poor Japan in that case...

I'm a huge WRC fan...I think it's great knowing that using Colin's name in the title will provide royalties to his children he left behind in his tragic death.

Um sweet? Now all the people in japan that use GS can cheer lol...

It's both for Ps3 and 360... and this bares ill for GT5.

make ps3 version and ds but not 360 not being biased but its not sold well over there same with psp i think

@stabby EA is problaby the biggest non Japanese developer in Japan.

pffft, i would'nt bother! leave em with the coin collecting plumber & those very tedious incarnations of the same games (FF, SF, etc, etc, etc)!

Good luck with that Codies!

Of course they should publish GRID there/. Im not too sure how DiRT will rank, but a 2 for 1 deal will be something that even the Japanese can't turn a blind eye too.

interesting!!! The jap market is an interesting one, they want everything localized, everything made for them and by them, I hardly see people from japan online, only a few, does this happen as well on the PSN?

Think i will hold off buying any racing games until midnight club

Japan? X360? Success? Nah, they should stick to the PS3 in the land of the rising sun, they will waste quite a lot of money to make a X360 version to sell 50,000 copies in the better scenario.

what better way to do that then make a crappy DS version.

Two great arcade racing games. I cannot wait althought it should be a long one for the codemasters F1 game, hopefully it will be a pure sim F1 like it should be. Although they took colin mcrea into the "arcadey" genre when it used to be a sim rally racer i hope they dont do the same with F1 although i loved dirt.

Haven't seen this sort of optimism regarding the japanese market for some time, lets hope Codies can deliver. Codemasters is proving increasingly forward in their movements, nice to see a British company with such a refreshing approach.

Is there any non Japanese developer big in Japan? And I mean REALLY big? Given that they seem to spite alot of foreign games just on that basis... despite "Codies" positive outlook...