He can dress up like megaman! PEW PEW?! QUE!?

Why should we care what a country who loves enema porn thinks? Eff them! More for us.

Also,Cocks

@lord

I see the reverse happening where all systems are built in options when you buy super hi-vision monitors, kinda like the panny pro series with slots for upgrades like extra hdmi ports(which it doesn't come with in the first place!)only your game system will be the equivelent of a graphics card with unlockable advances and games obtainable through download.

I'm currently in South Korea, but I was in Japan for a bit last week.

As far as I can see, the PS2 and the DS Lite still reign supremacy over there. Akihabara shops all have their DS and PS2 koisks displayed prominently in their stores, with the Wii and PS3 being a little bit more downplayed. The 360 is stuck in the back wall of shops, with one of two people browsing it's wares once in a while. The original X-Box is gone. History.

I probably have to stay there longer to get a better grasp on what's REALLY popular in the land of the Rising Sun, but that's what I've seen so far.

Absurdly, cell phone games are a huge rage right now in Asia. Considering the fact that every schoolgirl, businessman, and Buddhist monk has a celly, it's not very difficult to imagine.

Thats strange. Considering how well I hear Gears of War did over there... and this is Capcom, too. The same people that sell them the same Mega Man game 50 times over per month. :/

I have to second xenophobia, it is known that Japanese people doesnt accept forreigners in any way back then. Try to bring foreign religions to Japan , they try execute all believers. Try to establish a home as foreigners there with many of your peers, be prepare to be attack, arrest, abuse, torture by citizen and authority. Try to trade with Japan, they will unload s**tload of goods on you but buy also nothing from you especially if your country is in the west, in other word if you are caucasians. These are some of the example of the past. I guess it is in human genetic to hate anything different even if it is as minor as skin color.
Ask your fellow American and Caucasian who visited Japan, im sure most of them can tell you that they got some stink eye contact.These Pro- Japanese people still exist and probably in a bigger number than all KKK, skinhead, and all king of Pro-White combine. My believe is only based on the statistic that their rape rate is so much higher than almost all western civilizations.
oh god, I hate all pro-race moron. I am an Chinese-American, and I am proud to believe that not everyone is a complete racist frantic.

The Japanese are just far too steeped in tradition and their own culture. They DO embrace a lot of American pop culture stuff, but when it comes to Tech they seem to keep it at home. Keep in mind that the Japanese made games what they are and the North American take-over of gaming is only a very recent development. It"s gonna take some time for them to warm up to the idea that maybe their game development faves are becoming second-tier. They"ll either come around or slowly dwindle into obsolesense(sp?).

Infinity:

See: Tag.

Port 'em to PS3 and Capcom should do just fine.

False when Dead rising came out in Japan it actually sold out it's first run.

@ michiyoyoshiku: Yeah, its first run of five copies. Don't forget that the PS3 also sold out of its first run too, and most Atlus games also preform similarly. It means nothing when they produce so few to begin with.

TheStripe: They're a pretty chauvanistic culture. Just look at all the rape pr0n and hentai they have, that's the tip of it.

@ Sterling- "Just look at all the rape pr0n and hentai they have, that's the tip of it."

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

@ TheStripe - agreed

I also submit, BUKAKKE FTW!!!!!!!!!!

TheStripe: Granted, Japan is not as bad as Africa or the Middle East, but they live in the fucking dark ages anyway and if you're legit claiming that the US is more a chauvanistic society than Japan, then you're simply wrong. We in the west didn't invent bukkake, tentacle rape and all the other fucked up shit that goes on over there. They're also yet to move away from the "woman stays at home" philosophy.

It is harder for women to find employment in Japan because of the belief they're all due to get married and will be staying at home. It's certainly more than an uphill struggle to get any kind of promotion, and the idea of them getting any equal pay to a male is laughable. Aaaand that's not even going into the high rate of sexual harrassment, both physical and verbal, that is far more prevelant than in a western society and which is harder to seek retribution for due to the fact that Japan's messed up society is going to criticise the "troublemakers" that report such harrassment.

Now I'm an equalist and as such hold no believe in woman oriented organisations looking out for one gender specifically at the cost of another, but you can't go claiming that the problems don't exist. They do. Japan is an inherently sexist, as well as racist, culture, moreso than western counterparts. It's straight up fact.

That kindof struck me funny. Americans accusing another nation of being arrogant.

@Jim - You make a lot of strong points, and I'm willing to admit that among civilized, modern countries, Japan has some significant ground to cover (moreso than Europe and the west) on the way to gender equality. However, the life of a japanese woman is a shoe-shopping-spree compared to Iranian or Saudi women's lives.

"It is harder for women to find employment in Japan because of the belief they're all due to get married and will be staying at home. It's certainly more than an uphill struggle to get any kind of promotion, and the idea of them getting any equal pay to a male is laughable."

These issues are still prevalent in American professional society, as well. It's a non-issue is countries that have instituted Sharia, because women get married whether they want to or not, and are generally not permitted to have a vocation outside the home. Couple that with the genital mutilation, honor killings, and the mandatory wardrobe, and you're going to have a hard time proving (to me, anyway) that Japan is any more inherently sexist than all the countries that use a brutal sexist religious ideal to browbeat women into property.

TheStripe:

Look, I see what you're saying about Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, but you can't use them as a comparison here on the basis that we're not talking about them. Answering the statement that Japan is sexist with the argument of "Well they're not as sexist as THESE guys" doesn't refute the truth of the original statement.

I'm well aware of clitoral circumcision and the practices of the Middle East. I've written a lot about Islamic countries and arabic cultures in the past, but just because one culture is more sexist than another, doesn't make it any less distasteful.

One more point.

For all I know, Sterling could have a wife and 4 kids, but my guess is that he hasn't been with a woman long enough to develope a nice healthy hatred of the female species, like most men.

No idea why anyone cares what Japan thinks about anything... they can make my phones and TV's but they certainly don't have to buy the games I play.

Seriously, why are game companies so set on trying to conquer the land of the rising sun? When systems like the PS2 and the DS are the most popular forms of entertainment over there its a wonder why MS doesn't just pull out or drop a significant amount of support for the Japanese market, since all the Japanese market does is kick MS in the teeth when they try to go out of there way to do cool and innovative things SPECIFICALLY for them.

Maybe it is Xenophobia, but like most people have been saying... at this point, who really cares? Theres far larger markets with people that love this form of entertainment. The bigger question is, 'Is Japan still relevant to the gaming culture'?

We should all probably stop seeking validation through Japanese acceptance.

I'm thinking that Apple should capitalize on the "size" issue in Japan and begin development on the iBox, which is essentially a gaming system the size of a credit card. That should appease the Japanese gaming culture, and allow Jobs to jab Gates one more time!

Brits hate the Japs because the Japs love the Yanks. The Brits hate the Yanks because the Yanks won the war.
I always love to insert the revolutionary war into arguments between ourselves and our friends across the pond. It's nonsense but it really enflames the agressiveness of the participants.

If it weren't for America, Japan never would have "westernized" and would still be craawling with samurai and bandits. Also, other than X-Japan, they're music is really really bad.