These are the reviews for Phantom Blade Zero broken down by languages. These numbers are undeniable. It's only been out 2 days, it'll be the best selling game of the year and 90% of its numbers is China. The chinese market and its consumers are too big to ignore. Western companies HAVE TO cater to the chinese market, as well as western ones, if they really want to sell. It might take some time, years, but it's the best way forward for really big sales.
>>750692118>chinaStopped reading there, I will never ever buy a chinese game
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>>750692190Thats great. The Chinese are perfectly fine when you tell them you're not part of their targeted audience. Now do that with your western industries.
>>750692118>Western companies HAVE TO cater to the chinese marketThey literally do not, maybe not have a disgusting tonal language. That could fucking help.
>>750692190Based.>>750692306Seething.
>>750692190Based.Majority of those sales cost next-to-nothing and paid for by their government. Very dishonest stuff.
Chinese play only chink game and pay half of European consumer for a game
>>750692118>Chinese people buy Chinese gameWoah, no wayYeah this totally deserved a thread
>>750692118 Steamcharts is the best advertising platform in video games. Tons of shitty Chinese games have tons of players by virtue of their population, but you retards only get so taken by the ones that happen to appear on Steam. A company like Ubisoft could bot 1 million players on one of their dogshit games and you clowns would instantly herald it as a gamechanger.
>>750692118>Western companiesFor the most part i don't care about western companies anymore, all the games i'm interested in are made in either south korea, china or japan. Gaming for me personally never required "saving" because I haven't played a western made game is almost a decade. I'm gone to asia, permanently. I'm going full ching chong nip wong gangnam style and i'm never coming back, because there's no reason to.
>>750692118There are a few reasons for this1. Nationalism, marketic for their domestic market is actively encouraged and they still consider themselves an immerging market at least in the AAA scene so they support at least the big budget one. Lack of love for the indie soulslike2. They do a local discount, compared to the usual AAA prices they do a 10% disount because of reason 1. Maybe to pad out their numbers like the Wukong release 60 dollars to the west but a bit cheaper to their yuan counterpart and their top prices are 60 in the new prices of 70/80 makes players feel like their getting a deal3. Their domestic markets do a lot of heavy lifting and do tons of collabs/crossovers with local bussinesses so If you looked in cn social you'll find them and it's insanely cheaper than the mininum 100 mil of western AAA marketing4. No culture war bullshit but they'll never have anti-ccp messaging and as an outsider idk about the ccp but it's a breath of fresh air from the usual social messaaging
>>750692190You missed the point, retard
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>>750692396>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sales by Country in 2025Country Sales>USA 1,000,000 (20%)>China 1,000,000 (20%)>France 500,000 (10%)>Others (mainly european countries) 2,500,000 (50%)>Total 5,000,000 (100%)https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/clair-obscur-expedition-33-reaches-5m-units-sold-up-8-million-04-26.4064/page-3#post-411573
>>750692306>Chinese are perfectly fine when you tell them you're not part of their targeted audienceYou will never have good eyesight
>>750692332how about you don't cut off the sentence? >if they really want to sell.as a market it's gotten too big to ignore. >>750692396i've also met them on japanese games. The market is accessible>>750692548I'm saying that western companies unavoidably will notice the chinese market, they can't ignore the best selling game of the year. And then they'll start making games that appeal to china too. Not ONLY chinese appeal, but ALSO CONSIDERING chinese appeal. >>750692816I think it should be possible to make games that appeal both here and there. They come out in droves for their own games, sure, but that puts them on a global platform, steam. If you release a game there, it can reach them. Western companies will notice and start making games for them too
>>750693254>as a market it's gotten too big to ignore.Just make a gacha with hot girls. Wow, you've entered the Chinese market. Shut the fuck up Zhang.
>>750692118Instead of praising shitty games for "muh chinese pride" try making actually good ones instead.
>>750692118Only thing China likes in western media are hyper macho series like Fast and Furious and Transformers. Western games don't do that now. They play a lot of Asian games though
>>750695085They have but you'll be forever trapped in your>THAT ONE DOESN'T COUNTmentality>>750695036Yeah JUST make giant open world games and release new maps for them every 6 weeks. Should be easy, right? TotK took 6 weeks to release, right?
>>750695626>Western games don't do that nownot now, but they will. It's what i'm saying. The chinese market has gotten too big to ignore
>>750695781Nah, western game devs are too arrogant to cater to China. They'd rather seethe and die
>>750696167Western publishers pander to them with pricing though. Its retarded how cheap AAA games are for chinks. 69.99$ game is like 40$ at release while other a lot poorer places pay same prices as euros and americans kek.
India and Africa have even more consumers why aren't you catering to them too?
But they don't buy any other games
>>750696529No one knows. Jeets and negroes have insane regional pricing so they pirate everything same with macacos meanwhile chinks have cheapest video games on the planet for some reason lol.
>>750696727It's because the Chinese actually work and earn money
>>750696727>look it up>costs the equivalent of 36€ in chinklandthe fuck
>>750696842Thats all AAA games anon lol. People then wonder why chink games have these numbers. Id buy random bum ass AAA games at release with these prices too. Imagine if newest AAA releases would cost 35$/euro.
>>750692118This is likely the reason why Western games have caved to the left—it’s all about wanting those massive sales in China.
>>750692118yeah PUBG is always on the top 5 most played steam games despite the fact that the game has little to no cultural presence in the west just because most players are chinks and jeets
>>750697915bruh the chinese despise the gay race communism that western lefties love so much
>>750692190But they *will* buy my AI slop if I provide chinese translation, and that's what matters.
>>750692118Fuck china.
>>750692118I have a game on Steam with 100k+ purchases. About 10% of those purchases come from China, but 2k of the reviews (which is about 40% of total reviews) comes from them. I genuinely don't get it, like 1 in 5 of Chinese players leave reviews, players from other regions don't review games nearly as much proportionally.
>>750692118At least they actually buy their own games and stimulating their industry
