How big are these games in japan?

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#1

my very first post here was about me wanting to make games like this (well, write for them atleast). and i hear alot of the time that companies are going out of business because of no money and what not. am i just hearing about american companies or is the market in japan for this going downhill as well. how long do you think these games will last? theyre my favorite type of game, i enjoy nothing else more. how long do you think these will be around for?

ps: sorry if this is a super lame post, but i’m basing alot of my college courses on writing and programming and what not so i can move to japan for things like this in the hopefully near future. also wanna do manga but i know thats fine

#2

In Japan, they have stores in Akihabara with a section that’s filled with a TON(AND I MEAN TONS) of Ero-/Bishoujo games. They wouldn’t bother to do something like that if they wasn’t big in Japan.

Here we can’t sell adult games in stores therefore making the Bishoujo game market in the U.S. still somewhat unknown.

Someone else should give you a more detailed explanation however.

[This message has been edited by DingoEnderZOE2 (edited 11-17-2005).]

#3

Not only that. It’s said more than 25% all games produced in Japan are bishoujo, and that’s a LOT!

Very unlike overseas, bgames - adult or not - are a big hit on Japan.

#4
quote:
Originally posted by DetectiveConan:
and i hear alot of the time that companies are going out of business because of no money and what not. am i just hearing about american companies or is the market in japan for this going downhill as well.

I haven't replied to dend because 1)he don't know English and 2)my knowledge of both English and Japanese is totally mnemonic (therefore not suitable for "live" discussion -I'm very very slow in writing-), but he lamented the fact that the number of B-gamers in Japan goes shrinking and that Japanese Law has apparently set its eyes on the Erogame genre (although I don't know what/who is his "5"ªg·¬×‹ÖŽ~" example), and he hopes that a diffusion of these games in the rest of the world can reverse this.
Let's hope in the future, but it seems a very difficult enterprise. And, incidentally, what's happened to the nice "Oyatsu no Jikan" review in the Review Forum? Lamuness, you have punished that poor guy not one, but TWO times [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/frown.gif[/img]...


#5

not quite sure what you mean, theres a law in japan that… does what? and the market is shrinking? >_>?

#6
quote:
Originally posted by DetectiveConan:
not quite sure what you mean, theres a law in japan that.. does what?

Censorship looms, apparently [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img] [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/frown.gif[/img]...
quote:
Originally posted by DetectiveConan:
and the market is shrinking? >_>?

So said dend, at least (in my opinion, most Japanese erogames are overpriced at 8800yen+taxes, and therefore I'm inclined to give credit to dend's words).

#7

yes, i took that review off;
the reviewer wants to keep it at a low profile since he’s canadian too

#8
quote:
Originally posted by DingoEnderZOE2:
Here we can't sell adult games in stores therefore making the Bishoujo game market in the U.S. still somewhat unknown.
I saw some of the DVD games from Hirameki in Suncoast shelves. To take up shelf space means they have to have atleast some movement capacity.
#9
quote:
Originally posted by Lamuness:
yes, i took that review off;
the reviewer wants to keep it at a low profile since he's canadian too

[img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/frown.gif[/img]"SIGH" [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/frown.gif[/img], I suspected that this was the case, I just hope that Common Sense will prevail at the end...
On a side note, I've searched for that "5"ªg·¬×‹ÖŽ~" reference, and the results are even more depressing (basically, Censor Sofurin has targeted Loli games, now... ).

[This message has been edited by Baldo (edited 11-20-2005).]

#10

who is this “dend”? who or what >_>

#11

http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002368.html

#12

Through concerning the censorship issuse, it also seems to me that in some regards, the japanese companies grows more bold with displaying ot making certain things in their games that usually would be taboo according to the current rules…

[This message has been edited by Spectator Beholder (edited 11-21-2005).]

#13