29th March 2006, 8:45 AM
Quote:Well, from what I've read, MMORPGs are fairly popular in Asia in general. WOW hasn't hit Japan yet, but it's taken China by storm. I'm pretty sure Square-Enix will figure out they really need to play catchup with Blizzard the second WOW hits Japan.
Korea mostly, China some (though more because of the sheer size of the population than anything else), Japan less, from what I know... Korea though, MMORPGs are very popular there. But Japan? Online gaming as a whole isn't as popular there as it is in, say, the US or Korea... MMOs included. That's why there are so many American MMOs, and so many Korean ones, and a bunch of Chinese ones made just for that market, but many fewer from Japan... there are some, sure, but fewer.
As for WoW, I don't know how it did/is doing in Japan...