You could be right. It reminds me of Ru Paul's Drag Race.
There's a chance that it's popular within the US Prison system population. I mean you have a literal captive audience of millions.
Japanese high-profile multiplats aren't doing so hot on PS anyway and a lot of japanese third-parties have been quite in disarray by the current situation after two full decades of using Playstation as their default home. Another example I've noticed from this disarray is Earth Defense Force 6, which still has yet to announce which platforms it will be released on (even a year later after the game project reveal), while EDF5 and EDF4.1 were initially announced on PS4 from the start and without a definite date back then.
They're not bullshitting about the Japanese investment, they're merging games and anime together because people found there's an extra tier of PS+ happening where you get anime series and games monthly. At this point they're so involved with the whole industry they make money on anime just by sleeping.
SJWs made woke media (walking simulators, calarts, woke comics), they had a little success, then it started to fail as people moved on to Japanese media. What happened?
There was no real organized movement to pressure Japanese creators. You had some articles and literal who's from twitter but it had no real backbone or structure to it. I'd consider Netflix far higher on the corporate political activism scale since they're staffed and funded by the Obamas, but people were literally willing to sweep Masters of the Universe thing under the rug because they're putting out Stone ocean.
Except here's the thing the PS5 is not failing in China or any of the larger asian markets. Those markets buy Japanese games in far larger quantities than Japan itself. And Sony has made major headway into China far more than Microsoft or Nintendo. Half of Genshin Impact's billion dollar+ revenue is from playstation. That's not going to have the effect of turning Japanese developers away from the PS5. Especially since the only time that happens was when the consoles failed in America, China, and Europe. That turned devs away and had games not be produced for every region. When the PSP and Vita stopped it wasn't due to Japanese sales figures it was due to world wide figures, same with the wii-u and saturn. The Japanese Market doesn't determine who gets more Japanese games, the global market does.
Sony sold out its initial PS5 stock in China, but it's far too early to tell if how long those sales figures will continue. I'm sure Genshin does well in China, but that's exactly it. The Chinese play F2P games and Genshin is far from a woke SJW product. It's basically a gacha game. A Chinese, free-to-play gacha game. You can't really hold that as a reasonable estimate of future success for Japanese developers creating full-priced titles.
The thing is Genshin is just one of many multiplatform games that Sony has backed in regards to China. It's the only one that's had success internationally at this point but they really do push advertising them hard and every flyer and poster has a PS4 and PS5 logo prominently featured on it. Microsoft is starting their own version with the same monetization, but it's based on the three kingdoms. The thing is however Sony will eventually have entire anime series developed to push a game. Their whole set up with anime companies is very interesting once you start digging through it. It's also generated quite a bit of cash already from the mobile games divisions just due to tie-ins. Effectively they could out market their competition just due to advertising. I know in Central and South America they're making a tag line that says that they're The #1 Name in Japanese Entertainment for whenever the new website comes up for their merged streaming service since they discontinued the regional versions.
Sure, I don't know, but I can tell you they aren't movie games with trans protagonists. If Sony wants to do business in China selling them shitty f2p games that's perfectly fine by me, I'm just saying that China bumping up Sony's PS5 wordwide sales figures isn't going to provide a new market to sell their big budget exclusives or anything else if they let the "SJWs" take control. Replacing lost Japanese domestic sales with new Chinese sales won't encourage a move towards more "diversity" and all that, but the exact opposite.
There are a billion people in China, someone will play anything. But historically China is dominated by PC (and knock-off pirate consoles and now phones) and F2P games like Crossfire, League, Dota and a bunch of their own MMOs that I don't even know the names of. Even Jim Ryan said this:
That's true income disparity is huge in China, you don't even have places that have running or clean water.
He has proven himself to be an autistic lolcow long ago, but the biggest problem is how he keeps spamming his inane delusions and meltdowns within this thread and the vidya forum in general.
I guess you're referring to the post I've made in the Steam Deck thread. My fault I didn't archive the 5ch thread too either as it doesn't appear among the results anymore.
How could you ever claimed that I melt down when I never mass neg rated anyone.
The Culture wars were the console wars all along.
My theory on what he's trying to do with this whole Soulja Game and "I own Atari" bullshit is him desperately trying to stay relevant. Soulja hasn't been relevant since his middle school zoomer fans grew the fuck up and stopped listening to his rapidly-aging style of rap. In that video he talks about the mansion he has, shows all the bitches he's got over, and tries to get us to believe that he's doing fine, but he's not. All the hoes, money, drugs, and material possessions in the world don't hold a candle to the attention he got when his coked-out ass made Crank That. That song was the peak of his entire career, now it's all slowly dying out. He's out of the spotlight and he hates it, he hates not getting attention on a such a massive scale, so all of this drama is him pitifully trying to be noticed and talked about again. He's doing it with the subtlety of a freight train chugging straight into an atomic bomb if you ask me.
He's literally MC Hammer but without the golden toilet.
