27th September 2005, 7:05 PM
Yes, as I said, you need to understand Japanese biases (against anything not made in Japan) to understand these things... it is a factor. Not the only factor certainly, but it's definitely a factor... there are other ones too, of course, like the kinds of games people like -- look at what sold the most X-Boxes in the US. Halo and Halo 2. The Japanese aren't big FPS fans. So what do they have? Not a lot... American PC-style RPGs? Not that popular there. Dead or Alive? That sells, but only so much... MS is doing some things to try to help itsself, and it should do better than it did this generation, but I think it doesn't have much of a hope of being second in Japan this console generation. Between Sony and Nintendo, it's not going to do it.