Azureth
Supreme [H]ardness
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So I was reading this article detailing why the GameCube failed and, as we can see from the Wii U, America and Japan seems to have quite a difference when it comes to culture when it comes to videogame tastes. I especially loved this quote:
I think there is a fair bit of truth to that, sadly, just look at CoD. Now, I am not saying you can't like CoD or any other shoot 'em up game, but one thing I have noticed is that many Americans, unlike the Japanese get really turned off by anything that would be considered "cartoony" or "not mature". Even among my friends many won't even play the new Wind Waker HD because "they don't like the cartoony graphics" yet will play and buy the same shooter over and over. what I don't get is why the Japanese seem to be a lot more open to new things even if "cutesy" like unlike americans. Guys get made fun of for it here whereas men in Japan can be into anime/manga etc. and isn't seen as nerdy and some kind of "loser" like an American guy would.Someone, sadly I forget who, would later quote in one of those meetings that Consumers dont want fun anymore; they just want to kill people in HD. Kyle Mercury recalls a Nintendo meeting