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baadaku12345
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Dragon Quest, Pokemon, Monster Hunter... no surprises here. Hopefully Fire Emblem Awakening will be just as successful over these shores as in Japan.
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potatochobit
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silly japanese and their nintendo games
I wonder how many people really still game-on-the-go with smart phones all around not one xbox game on the list |
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Tenchi
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^ Eh, I don't have a smart phone and I would still rather play physical media games on a dedicated handheld game console, so I'm happy that Nintendo handhelds are still thriving in Japan.
I think the bigger story isn't that there are no XBox 360 games on the list, the XBox 360 is past dead in Japan (and I'm a 360 owner, so this isn't anti-Xbox fanboy schadenfreude, just a statement of reality), but, rather, that not a single PS Vita game could even land on the bottom of the list, and that the PS Vita is still outsold by its precursor, the PSP. |
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RyanSaotome
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Handhelds are far better for gaming than bite size games on smart phones, so I'd never game on a smart phone when I could play on a handheld. Smart Phone gaming has never really taken off in Japan which is why handhelds dominate there. And yeah, Xbox is pretty much a dead system over there. |
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TitanXL
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It's funny because Japan was into cell-phone gaming long before America. Even back during the GameBoy era you could connect your cellphone to Pocket Monsters Crystal for cross-overs. They took that feature out of the American version because cell-phones were still new/kids didn't have them like in Japan. Then you have all those cell-phone only sequels to games like Star Ocean 2 and Final Fantasy 7. As for XBox and Vita, the top 3 for each of those were Halo 4: 38,779 Biohazard 6: 37,456 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: 32,843 Persona 4 Golden: 229,044 Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA f: 200,131 Gravity Rush: 80,597 |
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potatochobit
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yes, I dont play games on my smartphone but I do watch anime or surf the web all day.... which takes away from gaming time
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Banjo
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good that srw is on the ist
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Joe Mello
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19 million PSP's? Really?
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Ushio
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What's the problem? 33 million Nintendo DS's have sold in Japan as well. The only reason the number for DS's is lower in the article is it doesn't include the discontinued DS and DS lite. |
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RyanSaotome
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Japan is the reason why PSP is one of the top 7 selling systems of all time. Its just never caught on in the West for whatever reason. |
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enurtsol
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Actually, J-mobile game companies DeNA and Gree are doing well. That's why both are aggressively expanding Westward, in reverse trend of the traditional J-game companies: Mobile social game giants GREE and DeNA report sharp financial growth After Gree, DeNA joins ESA Start-ups win game in land of giants
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