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Japan has good taste.
And yet they don’t like Zelda games as much as the rest of the world.
Oh. In that case, Japan has terrible taste. Lol.
I bought 7 of those top 10 titles. One was from the Tokyo Nintendo store.
One day I will have time to play them.
Just too bad Nintendo is a horrible company for it’s users, fans, and staff alike.
Worse than Sony and Microsoft, though?
I certain ways, yes.
That is awesome. Mario must be king now.
It always baffles me how many Mario Kart games they keep selling.
I guess it must be almost exclusively little kids who get it with their own first Nintendo at this stage.
Mario Kart is just fun.
And the last one Nintendo made is now 10 years old. They just keep repackaging it and adding stuff to it. Selling a subscription to the DLC is way more lucrative I guess.
Also, guess which fully-grown adult just two months ago bought a Switch and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe?
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Nope, it’s my first console purchase since the GameCube.
It may seem like “everybody” who wants something has it already, but there are always new customers out there.
Ok wow.
Well, to be fair, back in 2020 the switch was also my first console since the N64.
Hope you enjoy it!
Nope, definitely not.
Despite what many otaku may say, video games (at least outside of the arcade or mobile phones) are much more “kids’ stuff” in Japan than in the West. Wouldn’t be a surprise at all if kids are propping up Japanese game sales, which then leads to Nintendo dominance, since Nintendo focuses on the younger market more than Sony. XBox is pretty much an insignificant amount of Japanese game sales.
How can kids be propping up Japanese game sales if Japan isn’t having any kids?
A lot of people bought the game after watching the Mario movie (source).
For 19 years? The last good game they made was breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom. Before that was odyssey and smash came out years ago. Are people just buying the same games over and over again?
You have to remember that your taste isn’t the only taste in video games. For example, you didn’t mention Animal Crossing which was an insane smash hit for sales. The Pokémon games sold extraordinarily well. Splatoon continues to kill in sales. Kirby is another one that sold like hotcakes.
New games have been coming out and selling like gangbusters. You just didn’t notice because they’re not the ones you, personally, play.
Oh yeah I forgot about animal crossing. I used to love Kirby too how’d I forget about that. Pokemon is just bad tho haha. That is my opinion but I’m sticking to it
Also I do consider games that aren’t my taste. I was just mentioning the biggest releases Nintendo made I don’t like Mario Odyssey and haven’t play breath of the wild yet
Spoken like somebody who has never played the timeless classic that is ARMS 🤧
Ha ha funny joke, but actually though, ARMS kind of slaps. Pun intended. I had a lot of fun with that game, it’s a really neat twist on the fighting game genre.
Hey, I genuinely loved Arms.
Splatoon is one of the biggest games in Japan
Those games weren’t good
Tbf, Japanese players will avoid a 10/10 western game and go out of their way to play a 1/10 Japanese game just to spite the western developers. Japanese players have this weird view that they’re the only ones who should be allowed to make games
It’s not so much developer spite as it is that Japanese devs know the preferences of their home market much better than Western devs do, and vice versa, Western devs know the Western market much better. Microsoft’s one token attempt on console to appeal to Japanese gamers (publishing Blue Dragon, Infinite Undiscovery, and The Last Remnant on the 360 back around ‘09) failed spectacularly not because MS is a Western publisher, but because the games’ overall quality was mid at best and they actually ran better on PC and PS3 when the exclusivity ended. MS hasn’t really made a real attempt to focus on Japan since.
? apex legends is one of the most popular games in japan right now. what kind of twisted sense of japan do you have right now.
It’s not spite, but they absolutely do favour stuff built in their own country, as many do. Nintendo also notoriously builds their systems and games for the Japanese audience in mind, because it’s what they know.
It’s a totally different culture, and Japan as a nation is relatively isolated, so it’s not a spite thing - just liking what is available to you and what you know.
