After years of rumors, late last week we saw the most solid evidence yet that China might actually be lifting its ban on game consoles. Needless to say, this has led to speculation that Microsoft and Sony are about to make a killing selling their consoles to a new market of 1.4 billion people. They aren’t, though.
Gary Green said: Sorry for sleeping with the enemy, but Pokémon has previously been something of a guilty pleasure of mine in one form or another. Back in my younger days of student life, a gap year and living under my parents’ roof, and with money to burn, I was very much a carefree multi-format gamer, and so Nintendo’s monster-catching mega-franchise always had a place in my expansive game collection. Then there were the trading cards that everyone wanted despite them never really gaining the value we were all expecting 20 years later. Not my best investment.
Games Asylum: "After a car smashes into a notorious vampire’s castle, rudely interrupting their 500-year slumber, the fanged-fellow awakens in the modern era to find that a bustling city has been built around their now-crumbling abode. Try as they might, Brocula – as they’re known – must now adapt to the modern way of living, paying his extortionate rent bill by working part time jobs at the city’s garage, coffee shop, and restaurant – much to the blood sucking brute’s chagrin."
TSA writes: Killer Klowns from Outer Space brought plenty of goofy silliness to 80s horror cinema, and that’s honestly a perfect fit for asymmetrical multiplayer.
We will see what the numbers say when they launch in china. The PS4 should do well there if what you say about the freemium method is true. XB1 should do well because....well I just want them to do well. The fact that Chinese people wont buy sony because it's Japanese, I don't believe to be true.
But it really doesn't matter because this article sucks. You sound like you are defending piracy. While I do believe that trying out a product is good, piracy that encompasses the whole gaming market of china cannot be a good thing. I think china will crack down on the piracy issue. Why would they want to be robbed of the income a billion dollar industry will bring them?
Expect a lot of faked miscellaneous gaming add-on items and copied Blu Ray game/film discs.
Number 5 already on the PS4. Next gen is powerful enough for MMORPG and RTS.
Of the 1.3 BILLION people in China, i'd say MAYBE 10% could afford either console, much less both.