BUSINESS WEEK: Twenty-four-year-old Zhu, a banker in southwestern China, took time Tuesday out of his busy schedule working for one of China’s leading banks and playing five to six hours of video games a week, to share his gaming ambitions. He loves the multiplayer online game World of Tanks—which has 45 million registered users worldwide—plays mostly alongside close friends, primarily uses his own laptop, and usually commands digital armored vehicles on weekends.
However, he wasn’t all that excited about rumors that the Chinese government might lift a ban on legal imports of video game consoles—a tidbit first attributed to an unnamed source in the state-run and sometimes unintentionally hilarious China Daily on Monday, and subsequently picked up by Reuters and other Western outlets. It’s not clear there’s anything to the chatter, as a second culture official denied the report to Reuters. Still, the news item did give an apparent next-day boost to the Tokyo-listed stock prices of Nintendo and Sony (SNE), which make the popular Wii and PlayStation game consoles (a rare instance of state-run Chinese media helping Japanese companies).
Game Rant chats with the creator of No More Heroes about who he would like to see play the role of Travis Touchdown in a live-action adaptation.
Actually Ryan Gosling makes a ton of sense.
Edit: If this can be done in a Scott Pilgrim movie kind of way that would be dope.
The Opening Levels that hooked gamers from the outset.
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I'm sure it would sell a few consoles, but overall I'm sure it would go un-noticed by the general population. They seem to be more into PC gaming there, the PS3 may not even sell well there... who knows unless they lift the ban.
Their probably already consoles on the black market all over china.
They are so many that a few milions is possible but will not compete with Pc Gaming there...
There´s a game in China that has over 300 milion people playing it or registered idk... Some game about Dragons.
They probably already have local versions of consoles named EXBOX360 and Playsaton3.
Before this article starts a flame war, its not talking about just the xbox or which console will see more success, it deals with a a problem all console makers will face trying to penetrate into the chinese market. Piracy inforcement is lax in China which is a problem for console makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) since nearly all their revenue is from software sales. Games that are popular and profitable in China (mostly MMO's) overcome this obstacle by having a subscription model, which is quite different from what console gaming is about.