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#1 poopinloop32
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i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprised
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#2 RurouniSaiyajin
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No, I don't really care much at all right now. I mostly look at it to see how Gundam Musou and the newest Naruto game are doing. Although when the good RPGS start coming, I'll be looking closely
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#3 niket527
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u gotta remember that they have a completely different culture over there.  the games that we in the US think are awesome might not cut it for them.  the same goes the other way around.
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#4 ttobba07
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People care about it because as history dictates. Whatever console wins in Japan has won the system war for that generation. Samething goes for handhelds.
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#5 MasterChumly
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i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedpoopinloop32

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

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#6 dru26
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Absolutely not. If games like Rub Rub Rabbits outsell Gears, and/or Oblivion, why should I.
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#7 poopinloop32
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[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedMasterChumly

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

want to know the last japanese game i bought?FF10...i woudlnt really be missing out on much
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#8 deactivated-5f26ed7cf0697
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Not at all. I live in America and I buy games/consoles in America.

Xbox flopped miserably in Japan, but that didn't stop me from buying one and clearly is the best console I've ever own since the NES, SNES and Genesis combined. And still playing Xbox to this day.

Xbox 360 (120hd) is next for me.  

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#9 MasterChumly
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[QUOTE="MasterChumly"]

[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedpoopinloop32

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

want to know the last japanese game i bought?FF10...i woudlnt really be missing out on much

Do you like games like Lost Planet? or Dead Rising? MGS? because those are all Japanese.

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#10 poopinloop32
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[QUOTE="poopinloop32"][QUOTE="MasterChumly"]

[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedMasterChumly

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

want to know the last japanese game i bought?FF10...i woudlnt really be missing out on much

Do you like games like Lost Planet? or Dead Rising? MGS? because those are all Japanese.

sure i liked LP and DR for the first few weeks but i couldnt stand to finish them
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#11 TDLlama
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Japan and America are like apples and oranges when it comes to gaming.
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#12 Sooshy
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I do only because I care about the industry so much.
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#13 SmashBrosLegend
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I care because it might effect support, which effects which games we get.
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#14 chicken008
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Well yeah.. it means more games to come for consoles that sell well. And sequels for games that sell well.

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#15 GunSmith1_basic
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every once and a while lemmings have to downplay japan sales because the 360 is getting creamed there. Japan sales matter just as much as any other sales. Although- I suppose that they would want more english speakers for xbl. hmmm..
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Not particularly.
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[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedMasterChumly

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

Exactly.

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#18 Puckhog04
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I've always really just paid attention to the sales of the PC games. So, in short, no, i don't care about console sales.
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#19 Zerostatic0
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[QUOTE="MasterChumly"][QUOTE="poopinloop32"][QUOTE="MasterChumly"]

[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedpoopinloop32

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

want to know the last japanese game i bought?FF10...i woudlnt really be missing out on much

Do you like games like Lost Planet? or Dead Rising? MGS? because those are all Japanese.

sure i liked LP and DR for the first few weeks but i couldnt stand to finish them

Um, so did you buy Final Fantasy 10 after you got Lost Planet and Dead Rising?
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#20 Zerostatic0
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[QUOTE="MasterChumly"][QUOTE="poopinloop32"][QUOTE="MasterChumly"]

[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedpoopinloop32

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

want to know the last japanese game i bought?FF10...i woudlnt really be missing out on much

Do you like games like Lost Planet? or Dead Rising? MGS? because those are all Japanese.

sure i liked LP and DR for the first few weeks but i couldnt stand to finish them

Also how the hell do you give Lost Planet an 8.9 in a user review if you couldn't even stand to finish it?
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#21 dru26
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Apparently Capcom, Bandai, and possibly even SE believe in the 360, so why think sales numbers will affect game development.
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#22 MasterChumly
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Apparently Capcom, Bandai, and possibly even SE believe in the 360, so why think sales numbers will affect game development. dru26

.................

Sales numbers ALWAYS affect game development.  If a developer could potentially get 300-400k more sales on another system they are highly likely to put it on that system.

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#23 Zhengi
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I definitely care about Japanese sales. Why are Sony fanboys trying to downplay them when it helped the PS2 win last gen?
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#24 fuzzysquash
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i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedpoopinloop32
the companies care
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#25 Dm1uciano
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Japanese don't care about anyone else but themselves

but yet they want us to believe they are most important.

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#26 Dm1uciano
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Japanese don't care about anyone else but themselves

but yet they want us to believe they are most important.

Dm1uciano

They buy Japanese made only,

Then brag about how american products fail with their numbers every week,

 

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#27 shungokustasu
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Japan and America are like apples and oranges when it comes to gaming.TDLlama
... Seriously, You couldn't post anything better than this?
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#28 Kill-U
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you must all remember that all japanese loves are fantasy rpgs not what americans like mostly gunz, killing, and explosions big explosions
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#29 Ichiroisawsome
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[QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Japanese don't care about anyone else but themselves

but yet they want us to believe they are most important.

Dm1uciano

They buy Japanese made only,

Then brag about how american products fail with their numbers every week,

Are you seriously this ignorant?
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#30 shungokustasu
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[QUOTE="Dm1uciano"][QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Japanese don't care about anyone else but themselves

but yet they want us to believe they are most important.

Ichiroisawsome

They buy Japanese made only,

Then brag about how american products fail with their numbers every week,

Are you seriously this ignorant?

You tell him Ichiro...
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#31 Hoffgod
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Apparently Capcom, Bandai, and possibly even SE believe in the 360, so why think sales numbers will affect game development. dru26
The reason for that is companies are looking beyond their own national borders. The console market in Japan isn't what it used to be. The real market is in handhelds. But that's not so in the rest of the world. So while the 360 lagging in Japan may affect the end sales results, it doesn't affect developer support that much. What does affect developer support is the strong sales of the Wii and the weak sales of the PS3 worldwide. That's why you see new 3rd party games getting announced for the Wii while the PS3 loses exclusives.
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#32 SkyRaid
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Sales not important, I'm not on anyone's commison. Games are more fun than numbers.
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#33 Majatt
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[QUOTE="poopinloop32"][QUOTE="MasterChumly"][QUOTE="poopinloop32"][QUOTE="MasterChumly"]

[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]i sure as hell dont its the same thing every week yet people are still suprisedZerostatic0

Winning Japan = more games for your console so why WOULDNT we care.

want to know the last japanese game i bought?FF10...i woudlnt really be missing out on much

Do you like games like Lost Planet? or Dead Rising? MGS? because those are all Japanese.

sure i liked LP and DR for the first few weeks but i couldnt stand to finish them

Also how the hell do you give Lost Planet an 8.9 in a user review if you couldn't even stand to finish it?

Hmm, I concur.
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#34 glitchgeeman
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Well yeah, since whatever console/handheld gets more sales gets more support as well, which means more games, which is a good thing.
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#37 shungokustasu
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Blue Dragon is the best JPRGs out right now,

Too bad it was cut short becuase Japs didn't want to buy a non Japanese Console.

We'll see when Trusty Bell and Lost Odyssey comes out,

and see how prejudice the Japs are.

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#38 Dm1uciano
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[QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Blue Dragon is the best JPRGs out right now,

Too bad it was cut short becuase Japs didn't want to buy a non Japanese Console.

We'll see when Trusty Bell and Lost Odyssey comes out,

and see how prejudice the Japs are.

shungokustasu

Dude, chill out...

My bad,

I'm just telling it how it is.

Theres a huge misconception about the 360. 

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#39 Dm1uciano
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[QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Blue Dragon is the best JPRGs out right now,

Too bad it was cut short becuase Japs didn't want to buy a non Japanese Console.

We'll see when Trusty Bell and Lost Odyssey comes out,

and see how prejudice the Japs are.

shungokustasu

Dude, chill out...Put your rifle down. WWII is over...

It's nothing about wars...,

I was actually a huge anime fan, 

Until of late.

When I found out how biased Japanese are. 

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Japan and America are like apples and oranges when it comes to gaming.TDLlama

 

Yes Americans = apples, come in a variety of colors, thin edible skin sort of crunchy but pretty sweet.  Also you can't eat their core.

japanese= oranges, orange, bitter unedable shell, but really juice and sweet on the inside. watch out for seeds.

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#41 shungokustasu
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[QUOTE="shungokustasu"][QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Blue Dragon is the best JPRGs out right now,

Too bad it was cut short becuase Japs didn't want to buy a non Japanese Console.

We'll see when Trusty Bell and Lost Odyssey comes out,

and see how prejudice the Japs are.

Dm1uciano

Dude, chill out...

My bad,

I'm just telling it how it is.

Theres a huge misconception about the 360.

misconception? you mean the fact it's just a shooter? I agree with that. 360 is nothing but a shooter console.
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#42 krunkmastax
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My bad,

I'm just telling it how it is.

Theres a huge misconception about the 360.

Dm1uciano

Sakaguchi explained why the 360 is failing in Japan. Its not the fact that its American its MS and their damn advertising. They're an american company so they don't know how to market their console to Japanese gamers. They need to figure it out though so the console can be more successful there. Sakaguchi even said the reason Gears didn't sell so well there is because barely anyone knew about it. 

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#43 Dm1uciano
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[QUOTE="Dm1uciano"][QUOTE="shungokustasu"][QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Blue Dragon is the best JPRGs out right now,

Too bad it was cut short becuase Japs didn't want to buy a non Japanese Console.

We'll see when Trusty Bell and Lost Odyssey comes out,

and see how prejudice the Japs are.

shungokustasu

Dude, chill out...

My bad,

I'm just telling it how it is.

Theres a huge misconception about the 360.

misconception? you mean the fact it's just a shooter? I agree with that. 360 is nothing but a shooter console.

So what does the PS3 have?

As far as I know,

the 360 has Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Trusty Bell coming out this year.

But believe me these games have no chance what so ever in Japan,

It's pretty sad isnt it?

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#44 Ichiroisawsome
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[QUOTE="Ichiroisawsome"][QUOTE="Dm1uciano"][QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Japanese don't care about anyone else but themselves

but yet they want us to believe they are most important.

Dm1uciano

They buy Japanese made only,

Then brag about how american products fail with their numbers every week,

Are you seriously this ignorant?

Actually Japs are the ones ignorant.

I on the other hand don't cut myself short playing only certain types of games.

I didn't buy the PS3 not becuase It's Japanese nor did I by the 360 becuase it's american.

360 has better games thats why I bought it.

First of all "***" or "Japs" is a racial slur. Japanese have different tastes in games than Americans. They prefer cerebral games while us americans prefer twitch gameplay. Japanese consumers don't care about where a product is made as long as it has the features they are looking for. Ex. The Ipod is the #1 selling all in one MP3 player in Japan because of it's features. The Ipod is considerably more expensive than Sony's MP3 player which lacks the features that Japanese consumers are looking for and thus is the reason they will happily shell out more money for the Ipod. In general Japanese consumers view american made products as having the same quality as their Japanese made counterpart.
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#45 deactivated-5d560a230ad3c
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Japan's video game industry is roughly 1/2 the size of North America's--smaller, for sure, but significant nevertheless. 

Yes I do care.

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misconception? you mean the fact it's just a shooter? I agree with that. 360 is nothing but a shooter console.shungokustasu

Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Cry On, Infinite Discovery, Mass Effect, Oblivion and many others disagree with you. 

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every once and a while lemmings have to downplay japan sales because the 360 is getting creamed there. Japan sales matter just as much as any other sales. Although- I suppose that they would want more english speakers for xbl. hmmm..GunSmith1_basic
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#48 Dm1uciano
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[QUOTE="shungokustasu"][QUOTE="Dm1uciano"][QUOTE="shungokustasu"][QUOTE="Dm1uciano"]

Blue Dragon is the best JPRGs out right now,

Too bad it was cut short becuase Japs didn't want to buy a non Japanese Console.

We'll see when Trusty Bell and Lost Odyssey comes out,

and see how prejudice the Japs are.

Dm1uciano

Dude, chill out...

My bad,

I'm just telling it how it is.

Theres a huge misconception about the 360.

misconception? you mean the fact it's just a shooter? I agree with that. 360 is nothing but a shooter console.

So what does the PS3 have?

As far as I know,

the 360 has Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Trusty Bell coming out this year.

But believe me these games have no chance what so ever in Japan,

It's pretty sad isnt it?

^^^^

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#49 Pizza_Guy450
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I really can't believe how racist some people can be, all because of their precious little console. Get over it. If MS were to hire a decent Japanese PR firm, they'd sell. From all accounts, MS isn't doing enough hard-hitting advertisement in japan, nor did they do for last gen, thus the lack of hype and sales for the 360.
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#50 shungokustasu
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[QUOTE="shungokustasu"] misconception? you mean the fact it's just a shooter? I agree with that. 360 is nothing but a shooter console.KrunkMastaX

Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Cry On, Infinite Discovery, Mass Effect, Oblivion and many others disagree with you.

Halo and Gears of War the biggest games sold on the Xbox ever doesn't...LoL Wanna Know The biggest salers on the PS systems? And they all not RPGs...