Sony worldwide president Shuhei Yoshida thinks that Japan is more open to Western games now. He cites games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss being one of the top preordered games for Vita in Japan as a sign of this change.
Japanese people traditionally have a strong local preference, particularly with the manga style look of characters that they love," he said to the EU PlayStation Blog. "But as technology and presentation advances in games like Uncharted and Call of Duty, they are rightly seeing their quality."
Uncharted being near the top of the preorder heap is impressive when you consider that the Vita launched with 24 titles in Japan. It was only second to the new Hot Shots Golf title.
Yoshida gives Harrison Ford a bit of credit, though: "Also, it helps that SCEJ paid a lot of money to get Harrison Ford to appear on TV playing Uncharted!"
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First and foremost, Han Solo is the shit. Second of all, Japan doesn't need to change or adapt their creative approach to video games. I like them just the way they are.
It's actually true. Western games are doing better over there. Or at least it seems that way. LA noire and infamous 2 both cracked the top 5 together, modern warfare was at the top of the charts, and they seem to really like uncharted. Uncharted 3 did fairly well in japan if i recall correctly.
The Silent Protagonist: way to sound like a ass. And there are plenty of choices of games. Some might not be attractive to you but they are for others.
Wait, so the Japanese are open to playing good games, even if they're games not made in their home country? If only one day the United States can follow in Japan's majestic footsteps.
I'm not a big fan of most Japanese styled games. They stopped resonating with me years ago. I don't want to say "as I matured" but honestly, maybe as I matured.
The Harrison Ford commercial was pretty awesome. I think the success of Uncharted in the East has to deal with the characters. They're all pretty well realized and Japanese gamers tend to have a stronger bond with story than gameplay.
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9:40 AM on 12.21.2011 | 
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But wtf they didn't had to use him for that.
"GET OFF MY PLANE."
Your parents must have started letting you play big boy first person shooters
*trollfaces*
*coughshotshotsgolfmariozeldamonsterhuntercough*
it only sold like 10,000 :(
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/10/17/this-week-in-imports-macross-says-hello-to-ps3/
i wonder if they renamed the game Metal Gear it would have sold more than that.
will try to import the JPN version sometime in the near future.
and yeah games like Uncharted, Assassins Creed, even Call of Duty has been getting alot of attention in japan