Hello. After all this time of playing B-games and going around talking about them in forums, with friends and etc… I have come to a question. Why is it that the Japanese and Asian market for B-games much greater than the one in North America?
I mean I see that there is clearly a larger market in Asia than there is in North America. Furthermore I see that there alot of companies making these games but aren’t bringing them over to NA. An example would be the websites. I go around surfing websites or game companies and find that there are a lot of companies making these games not just a few. I also find that eash company also makes lots of games. An example would be Trabulance. I see that they’ve been around for only about 5 or 6 years now but I see that they’ve made at least over 40-50 games more or less in those years.
Then I see the market over here and there is a huge differental. I took a look at the GC Survey results and only saw that about 965 people voted in the entire thing. I also remember someone saying that the market here is basically the same one or two thousand people or so buying these games. So that’s why I ask why is the Japanese market is much greater than the NA market? I know that there’s alot of Piracy and such but that probably happens there as well as anywhere. I also know that the Jap market has been going longer but they also started in the underground.