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Originally Posted by T.J. Lauerman
I believe I was listening to the Giant Bombcast when they mentioned that aside from a few games, PC gaming never really caught on in Japan. Mainly because they got into mobile so much earlier than the US, the market just never really developed.
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pc games pre-date mobile games by 3 decades... so not sure about that conclusion
that wouldn't explain why they weren't interested the previous ~30 years.
they are big on consoles, right? even in america console-gaming dwarfs pc-gaming. that coincided with pc-gaming from the ~beginning.
similar products, similar returns to the user => interchangeable. it will likely be the silly differences between us (culture = arbitrary nonsense) that cause the differences that we see when other factors are nearly the same.
mobile gaming isn't a direct competitor with most games. somethien like ootp ports well, but the hardware is too crappy to play anything with advanced 3d graphics... i bet those samsung phones would skip fire and simply instantly flash into a gas (sublimation).