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Why are we, in the UK, persecuted by the gaming industry? Every console is launched first in Japan, then America then the UK. I can understand why consoles launch in Japan as it is a massive industry there and Sony and Nintendo are for all intensive purposes Japanese companies. The consoles are made by the Japanese so they get it first, fair enough.
Why then does it go to the US, what is so special about them which we don't have. Is our lust for games so lacklustre that it is hardly worth considering the UK market?
The UK and US versions of consoles are normally virtually the same except the launch games have to be adapted to Pal format for our TVs. So why us last then. Does it really take that long to change this as most launch games do this pretty poorly anyway, which makes you think what they were actually doing for the 6 months between the launches.
Maybe the big games companies think we like waiting over a year for Jap games to reach us in the UK. Maybe we are just seen as drooling dogs who get more frenzied by the US launch as we watch the fat Americans playing on their shiny new consoles.
I wonder what were to happen if the next big console launch after GameCube and X-box was to be a simultaneous world-wide launch. Sure it would take a lot of planning but then everyone would be happy, a media frenzy could be whipped up and hopefully by then every main gaming country would have access to high speed internet connections.
Another way that we are abused by the gaming industry due to our country is prices. The Sony PS2 hard-drive was released in Japan the other week for a price of 19,000 yen. Sounds quite high until you realise that it translates to £110.
So will we get it for around that price, umm, no not exactly, you see being in the UK we are bound by sone ancient gaming contract to pay an extra £90, nearly double the price the Japanese pay. So we can presume that ours we be better then? Nope.
When every console is launched in America for a certain amount of Dollars it is released later in the UK for the same number in pounds sterling. Yet when I went to the exchange bureau to change $299 into pounds I was a bit suprised when I recieved far less than £299. It must be a different exchange rate as far as the games industry is concerned then?
Is there actually any just reason why we are snubbed, maltreated and rejected by the gaming industry?
Maybe we are not good enough to recieve the same treatment as the US and Japan. But could somebody please explain why it is that we are an inferior people walking about in our inferior country?
Why then does it go to the US, what is so special about them which we don't have. Is our lust for games so lacklustre that it is hardly worth considering the UK market?
The UK and US versions of consoles are normally virtually the same except the launch games have to be adapted to Pal format for our TVs. So why us last then. Does it really take that long to change this as most launch games do this pretty poorly anyway, which makes you think what they were actually doing for the 6 months between the launches.
Maybe the big games companies think we like waiting over a year for Jap games to reach us in the UK. Maybe we are just seen as drooling dogs who get more frenzied by the US launch as we watch the fat Americans playing on their shiny new consoles.
I wonder what were to happen if the next big console launch after GameCube and X-box was to be a simultaneous world-wide launch. Sure it would take a lot of planning but then everyone would be happy, a media frenzy could be whipped up and hopefully by then every main gaming country would have access to high speed internet connections.
Another way that we are abused by the gaming industry due to our country is prices. The Sony PS2 hard-drive was released in Japan the other week for a price of 19,000 yen. Sounds quite high until you realise that it translates to £110.
So will we get it for around that price, umm, no not exactly, you see being in the UK we are bound by sone ancient gaming contract to pay an extra £90, nearly double the price the Japanese pay. So we can presume that ours we be better then? Nope.
When every console is launched in America for a certain amount of Dollars it is released later in the UK for the same number in pounds sterling. Yet when I went to the exchange bureau to change $299 into pounds I was a bit suprised when I recieved far less than £299. It must be a different exchange rate as far as the games industry is concerned then?
Is there actually any just reason why we are snubbed, maltreated and rejected by the gaming industry?
Maybe we are not good enough to recieve the same treatment as the US and Japan. But could somebody please explain why it is that we are an inferior people walking about in our inferior country?
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pb wrote:
> GasMask wrote:
> Sorry pb I didnt see your post. It slipped past
> my eyes...
nah, I just thought it was funny that's all. Great
> minds and all....
Yea me must be special or somthing. Great minds and all....
Oh look we even say the same things, incredible.
> GasMask wrote:
> Sorry pb I didnt see your post. It slipped past
> my eyes...
nah, I just thought it was funny that's all. Great
> minds and all....
Yea me must be special or somthing. Great minds and all....
Oh look we even say the same things, incredible.
GasMask wrote:
> Sorry pb I didnt see your post. It slipped past my eyes...
nah, I just thought it was funny that's all. Great minds and all....
> Sorry pb I didnt see your post. It slipped past my eyes...
nah, I just thought it was funny that's all. Great minds and all....
Sorry pb I didnt see your post. It slipped past my eyes...
Logan wrote:
> Actually, jap gamers are aweful.
Yep, full of awe at everything! ;-)
> Actually, jap gamers are aweful.
Yep, full of awe at everything! ;-)
GasMask wrote:
> Why US than UK? Simple, US are bigger and more populated. What all
> company's really want is the money. I have no objection to this
> because they do such a fine job.
In US=More people, more
> money
In UK=Less people, less money
Strange, seems to be an echo around here.....
;-)
> Why US than UK? Simple, US are bigger and more populated. What all
> company's really want is the money. I have no objection to this
> because they do such a fine job.
In US=More people, more
> money
In UK=Less people, less money
Strange, seems to be an echo around here.....
;-)
Here's another drawback to getting games later, we're worse off in terms of gaming skills.
Maybe that's why they have servers in the US for the Americans and another one in Europe for the rest of us, because the difference in skill levels (in general, there are always exceptions), is quite marked.
Take your average Brit gamer and throw him into a Deathmatch on Unreal Tournament against a bunch of average American gamers, and the Brit won't last long.
So in terms of online play for games that are to be released on the consoles, especially with respect to RPGs where levelling up faster than anyone else gives you a great advantage, they really need to get the release timings universal to give everyone a fair crack at the whip.
Maybe that's why they have servers in the US for the Americans and another one in Europe for the rest of us, because the difference in skill levels (in general, there are always exceptions), is quite marked.
Take your average Brit gamer and throw him into a Deathmatch on Unreal Tournament against a bunch of average American gamers, and the Brit won't last long.
So in terms of online play for games that are to be released on the consoles, especially with respect to RPGs where levelling up faster than anyone else gives you a great advantage, they really need to get the release timings universal to give everyone a fair crack at the whip.
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