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Japan: PS2 Launch
- Thread starter jukeboxhero2396
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America on Black Friday, minus the Americans.
I remember reading news on VG newspapers at that time. That was truly the golden era of videogames, no fanboys, no DLC, no internet... just plug the console and play the games you've dreamt for month drooling at a couple of screenshoots on a magazine.
I remember reading news on VG newspapers at that time. That was truly the golden era of videogames, no fanboys, no DLC, no internet... just plug the console and play the games you've dreamt for month drooling at a couple of screenshoots on a magazine.
No fanboys? Hah no. The rest, maybe, but we did have the internet in the 90's before the PS2 came out.
ANYWAY, it's not that surprising that consoles are not that popular in Japan anymore, most Japanese I know play on their phones, or at the least on a Handheld device, otherwise consoles are a distant thought.
They either don't have space, or don't have interest.
Very epic. I'm still impressed at how hyped the PS2 launch, sans any killer video games. I just looked up the launch lineup for Japan and I've never even heard of GT2000. Is that like prologue for GT3?
Damn telephones. It's kinda wild that traditional Japanese software development remains strong, but is almost entirely servicing a western audience.
Apartments are very small, it's uncommon for someone to have room for a large TV and a TV stand and a game console.
Obviously if that's something they want they can make it work, but I think Japan has really invested in the convenience of handhelds.
Seeing that blue box brought back some memories, as I imported one soon after launch to the U.S. Ridge Racer 5 was an amazing game and I played so much of it for months. Graphically it was stunning at that time. It was also my first DVD player, so of course I went and bought a copy of the Matrix which had just been released.
I had X-Squad, Smugglers Run, Street Fighter EX something, and Armored Core 2. Armored Core 2 was the fucking shit from what I remember
I remember driving tot Germany ( I live in the Netherlands, near the border ) to pick one up, as they were sold out here ( and crazy expensive about 550 euro ). When I arrived they had one PS2 for sale, and the only games availble were Fantavision, Rayman and Smuggler's Run I think. Other games were sold out and my reason tot get one, RR5, was nowhere to be seen.
Next to the PS2, the much cheaper Dreamcast was on display and I remembered being blown away by Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally and Soul Calibur, so I got the Dreamcast.
Eventually, I bought a PS2 off course, and loved it, but I remember being pretty disappointed in the launch games back then, but looking back it was one of my most beloved consoles.
Next to the PS2, the much cheaper Dreamcast was on display and I remembered being blown away by Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally and Soul Calibur, so I got the Dreamcast.
Eventually, I bought a PS2 off course, and loved it, but I remember being pretty disappointed in the launch games back then, but looking back it was one of my most beloved consoles.
I know that Japanese apartments are small, but it's news to me that they don't even have a TV. You don't need 70" TV to play videogames.
I live in a 40 square meters apartment and I have a 50 inch TV and a TV cabinet with two Switches, a gaming laptop, a ps3 and a ps4. How freaking tiny are these japanese apartments again?
PS2 is awesome, one of the best consoles of all time... but holy shit how BAD the launch in Japan in 2000 was. The only real good game was Tekken Tag Tournament, the rest was paying a shitton of money for Bust a Groove 3, Driving Emotion Type-S, Street Fighter EX 3 or Stepping Selection... for me 2000 was the year of Dreamcast, by damn far.
Then of course 2001 happened.
Then of course 2001 happened.
I'm pretty sure it was the built in DVD player. Which, btw, by itself was expensive as fuck at the time.
At least that was how it was in the States.
I don't know what exactly you looked up, but GT2000 was the name given to several evolving demo builds of Gran Turismo 3. Each version was very limited - small selection of cars, small selection of tracks, and I think each race would end after a few minutes. It was on some demo discs but never got a paid release. The equivalent wouldn't the the Prologue games, it's closer to something like GT HD, except that GT HD was far more generous in term of playable content. I don't think it was around for the Japanese launch but hype for GT3 absolutely was one of the PS2's selling points in Japan, even at launch.
Lmao, how old are you? Fanboys always existed. Nintendo vs Sega fanboys?
I'm 35.
Honestly here in Italy I haven't ever heard of kids fighting wether Nintendo or SEGA were better in the nineties.
I'm from Chile and here people were killing in the streets like a holy crusade (and I'm not kidding, greetings to some friends who were punched in the face because they liked an specific videogame console... ah, junior high schools years, what a time).
When you're 14 kids do stupid things, console wars is one of them. Of course people can have choices, preferences and taste, but hating on a product because you like the
competition is the perfect late capitalism shit, and it was part of it, especially on the PS1 vs. N64 era here (Chile was Nintendoland in the SNES era, so the most loyalist Nintendo fans were on suicide watch at the time).
Ah, to be young again to rub FF7 and MGS on those Nintendo fans' face again...
He didn't say no TV, just simply not a big tv. Thought point still stands that you don't have to big tv to play games.
My friend lives in a 22sqm apartment, and all of the apartments I've been looking at for an upcoming move are around that size or smaller. Hell I was looking at a 10sqm apartment at one point (loft space isn't included in that number though).
For my friends and I (we all stood in line for like 5 hours), it was all about Tekken Tag Tournament and Eternal Ring.
The 16-Bit wars? Also gen 6 was when places like GameFAQs were at their worst.
National average it is, at least according to about half a dozen studies.
It was. It's just a shame it took From Software like three more games to finally move camera control to the right stick, lol.
