Why is physical media so popular in Japan compared to other countries?

>CDs
>DVDs
>BDs

Because owning things makes you happy.

It's disappearing in Japan too.

>>105638942 (OP)
Japan has a culture of buying and selling second-hand. Can't do that with digital.

>>105638942 (OP)
their native belief system teaches that all things have spirit of some kind, even inanimate objects.
probably has something to do with it

>>105638961
so fucking a onahole = fucking the holy ghost

>>105638979
I believe that inorder for man made object to gain a sentient spirit , it has to exist for 100years. so it will be a while before that happens.

>>105638942 (OP)
You will consoome and you will be happy

>>105638942 (OP)
It isn't, you dumb weeb. There are a minority of autistic physical media obsessives in the West too, along with retarded old boomers who can't operate The Netflix and still buy DVDs.

>>105638942 (OP)
more tickets for handshake events. they either resell to gaijin or dump them afterwards.

>>105638961
yes, they get reminded of it everyday when they visit a shrine
>>105638942 (OP)
it's all about marketing, nobody really needs those things but how else would anime companies make money?

>>105638942 (OP)
It's how to companies who produce the media get their money back.

>Make Anime
>Get money back from Blu-ray sales

I think, at least. I don't know if it's still like it was in 2011.

>>105639147
>yes, they get reminded of it everyday when they visit a shrine
When I was a child, we had a japanese student live at our house while they learned english abroad, and they put up those weird ghost looking things when it was raining, and did the wish tree thing , IIs not even a meme.

>>105638942 (OP)
Hobbiests in Japan see it as a good thing to spend money to support the things you like, it's why you get people buying 50 CDs/Photobooks for idols they like. It's also why they spend more on gacha than "global" combined in mobile games etc.

>>105638942 (OP)
Consumerism of domestic goods is a nationalistic spirt in Japan

>>105639170
BD sales are in the dumps.

>>105639233
in the west it would be easier to support things i like if I wasnt hyper aware of the scummy bullshit big companies like tendie do to the public.

>>105639358
What scummy bullshit does tendie do? Making the best games of any single developer?

>>105638942 (OP)

>>105639360
making a bunch of troll patents
>we a at nintendo invented jumping.

>>105639471
Well did they?

>>105638942 (OP)
They're obsessed with plastic for some reason.

>>105639504
have you been a sleep for the last 5 years? not only did they do this, every big dick japanese company like sega nintendo and sony got together in a big conference and agreed to start doing this in order to turn the screws to indie developers. they are turning it into an effective enshrined nobility similar to coke and pepsi.

nevermind that

>>105639587
Can you post evidence of this? First I've heard, Nintendo has been pretty good from my perspective. Unless you're talking about Palworld which is an obvious Pokemon rip off and was sold as such from day 1

>>105639524
I love the individually plastic-wrapped cookies that they have. It's like a love song for waste.

>>105639593
>u-unless youre talking about palworld
>then its okay to invent a bunch of fake patents to bring a frivelous lawsuit against someone
oh I see youre just another nintendo jeet shill. nintendo has a rap sheet a mile wide for anyone without their head burried in the sand and you would have to have your head up every jeets asshole on earth to not notice at least one if not 10 shitty things they did to their own customers in the last 10 years, let alone their competitors.

but if you want a personal favorite how about killing their president because the wiiu was bearish and bringing in a (((banker))) and investor profit driven CEO instead

>>105639641
>but if you want a personal favorite how about killing their president because the wiiu was bearish and bringing in a (((banker))) and investor profit driven CEO instead
The Wii U was a massive failure and even people that loved it like me knew that. Switch was incredible and they learned from that mistake with the Switch 2 which also seems to be successful. Are you really complaining they brought in a more successful CEO? The quality of their games hasn't suffered, if anything it's improved, they still care about quality control as evidenced by Prime 4 getting canned and rebuilt from the start. You clearly just have a grudge against Nintendo for some reason, companies aren't your friends, you should stop fanboying

>>105639524
>the peas aren't individually wrapped in plastic
missed opportunity

>>105638952
Digital distribution is fairly successful in Japan, just look at the comics market.
For games they had digital distribution via kiosks in the 80s and 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Disk_System#Disk_Writer_and_Disk_Fax_kiosks

>>105639656
>The Wii U was a massive failure and even people that loved it like me knew that. Switch was incredible and they learned from that mistake with the Switch 2 which also seems to be successful.
are you retarded?
the switch was the work of iwata as well.
>Are you really complaining they brought in a more successful CEO?
are you really apologizing for them assassinating their own president over some fucking kike losing at gambling? Osaka. Settle this niggerjeets debts.

>>105638942 (OP)
the simpliest explaination is that japanese companies manufacture dvds, cds, bds. they have an economic incentive to push physical media since its apart of their economy.

>>105639524
>>105639600
It's ok, that's because you westercucks are too indoctrinated.

>>105639182
Multiple students?

>>105639708
>assassinating their own president over some fucking kike losing at gambling?
QRD? I heard rumors he was killed, but don't know the details.

>>105640742
cancer gun probably. couldnt tell you details because nobody is handing out proof nintendo assassinated anyone obviously. to me the extra smoking gun is who replaced him. a banker and then a guy known for being obsessed with returning share holder value, coincidentally around the failure of the wiiu when some hot shot haafu kike probably went ballistic after betting too much on the wii (fad)

>>105638948
>on-disc DRM
>region locking

>>105638942 (OP)
>compared to other countries?
dont have the stats on this but it probably isnt true. just manifests differently in da west, collecting vinyls and cds is pretty popular from what i can tell and slophero reddit wars stuff gets collectors edition blu-rays. its probably just that the western stuff doesnt appeal to you, you ignore it and have created a bias in your head.

>>105640742
Iwata was assassinated just like how Yamauchi ordered Miyamoto to kill Gunpei Yokoi.

>>105640736
we hosted a few japanese students.

More collectors and people that value tangible goods in Nippon. The West is full of browns/low IQs that value convenience at the expense of owning.

>>105638942 (OP)
they're the last country to produce media thats actually worth storing on a media that lasts more than a few years, western media is disposable massmanufactured soulless garbage

>>105643933
I don't get why people are so obsessed with streaming services or why they consider shit like spotify convenient.

>>105645690
I had spotify for a while and they constantly kept removing songs from my library, deleted it soon after and went back to having a local library
was given a netflix account once, the video quality was literally worse than pirate streaming sites (I just torrent BDMV)
Streaming is only for sub room temperature IQ in celsius

>>105639593
>Unless you're talking about Palworld which is an obvious Pokemon rip off and was sold as such from day 1
good goy

>>105645690
Most people basicly don't care about image/sound quality or constantly needing internet access.
A ton of people listen to music on smartphone speakers or cheap bluetooth speakers and watch movies in tablets or cheap TVs with all "image enhancements" enabled.

>>105638942 (OP)
Probably the same reason why I started burning blurays.
Physical media and stuff in general feels more valuable, I appreciate it more and I also remember it clearer.
I could have 100 read ebooks that I forget, but the one tangible paper book is committed to memory and is always visible on shelf to keep it fresh.
Also maybe if you have physical stuff you consume less "content"?
I've read thousands of manga by now and probably couldn't name 10% of them.
The few I have in physical I can recall the entire plot and page layouts for.
Also no need to worry about losing it in your digital hoard.

>>105639587
Sega definitely doesn't. They don't care if anyone makes fangames or mods or anything. Sonic Mania was even made by fans.

>>105638942 (OP)
westerners got the bait & switch
>digital media means cheaper games!
>enjoy your $90 dollar download-only mario that you're only leasing from us, goy!

>>105639593
How is Palworld a ripoff aside from some designs? It's a completely different game from Pokemon.
And no Nintendo is by far the worst. They even tried to copyright capturing monsters at one point.
Not to mention any of their copyright shit. You can bare even have a few seconds of footage in your videos or mention switch emulation without getting your videos striked. On top of all the fantranslation or mods for games they didn't care about for decades and will never rerelease.

physical media == sovl

It's the result of living in a small country with a tight-knit sense of community. No matter where you're located delivery is same day or you can jump on a train to be anywhere in a matter of minutes or at most a couple of hours. You can buy exclusive limited edition stuff easily provided you show up on time. The idols and people producing the content interact with the public more often and are expected to do as part of their job. The yen is not strong but the price of things like food, eating out and buying stuff like BDs and figures hasn't risen that much. Well figures have increased a bit but it's still within the means of someone with a low wage job. It's a shame culture that sees stealing (even through pirating) as shameful. People want to support the industry with their wallet to keep the industry pumping out content that they like. The industry hasn't pandered to much to the demands of outsiders (at least not in the domestic market although anime is getting kind of bad lately). Typically, things like anime BDs have uncensored and errors fixed in scenes compared to the broadcast/streaming version. They also include a lot of extras like interviews and extra audio tracks in episodes with seiyuus and artists. Manga is still cheap as fuck and hasn't pandered to gaijin sensibilities/censorship. Every series has an ungoldy amount of merchandise mostly limited edition/exclusive to certain stores. Things like pop-up shops and keychains.

>>105639350
They are still good for series people like. Gushing over Magical Girls sold a ton of copies before they were even stamped. Pre-orders are still used to gauge interest in another season and everyone knows it. They're still willing to buy them at those high prices for limited editions provided they aren't censored.

The real cash cow now though is other types of merchandise. Figures, pop-ups shops with cardboard cut outs and tons of trinkets and other stuff. Otaku will go without food to afford this stuff.

>>105646045
(cont.)

The last important thing is the doujin scene. Companies like Nintendo sue gaijin that try to rip off their IP. But in Japan they know better than to bother the doujin scene and their cons. There are so many creators selling fan works of popular content and IP within the Japan doujin scene and it's tolerated. Since this is how most new original content is discovered and how new artists and creators break in to the entertainment industry. Fans spend ungodly amounts of cash for doujin every year and it keeps popular series relevant because there is always new doujin content being shared.

The Japanese love digital sharing too as long as it's "legal". But anything they truly love they want physical media of. Both to support the creator and to collect. Most people don't stop at buying just one copy of this stuff either. They buy at least 2 and usually 3.

One to read. One to keep in the original package and one to spread the gospel.

>>105645821
I'm not sure why you people defend an obvious rip-off of Pokemon so much. The game was pretty shit from what I saw of it anyway.

The real crimes of Nintendo are far worse. Like the patent they held/hold on d-pads. Which ensured every other controller produced for decades had a shitty d-pad. Or the high prices they were charging for their "seal of quality" in the NES days which put a bunch of small publishing houses in the poor house.

Japanese business world is crooked as fuck but they're just playing the hand they were dealt. It's mostly the result of being a vassal start to the US's Federal Reserve system. They're just playing the game as best they can.

If it wasn't for gaijin shady business practices we'd all be using something other than UNIX/NT/iOS right now. The US Government placed sanctions on the Japanese Government back in the late 80s-early 90s and tanked he Japanese economy for decades. All because they wanted to use their own OS/kernel on the PCs being used in the Japanese school system and later wanted to export them to the world. Then in the 2000s the exact same thing happened in the cell phone market. They tried to create a new OS to unify their cell phone market domestically. Apple, Microsoft and their friends in the US Government threatened to sanction them again. Then forced them to adopt iPhone+Android. This despite the fact that they had what was basically smart phones and a modern cell network in their country since 2001.

If I'd lived through the lost decades and knew it was due to the gaijin meddling I wouldn't have any issue using the same bullshit laws to prevent them from copying my IP either. Turn about is fair play.

>>105646122
>from what I saw of it
Okay, opinion discarded.

>>105646133
Wow such an amazing concept. An MMO where you raise pokemon rip-offs. I'm sure the grind and the constantly clicking GUI elements was so engaging and fun!

If they'd published it as a doujin work Nintendo wouldn't have cared. Even if they were selling it at cost to cover the costs of making discs. They smacked them down with lawsuit because they were attempting to turn it into on-going business like gacha. They even tried to use the lawsuit as publicity.

I have no sympathy for all these dumb faggots that release Nintendo rip offs, ROM hacks and exploits for consoles to softmod them. They always do it under their real names. They always attempt to profit from it. They always sit on exploits for years or report them to Nintendo for clout instead of simply releasing them for everyone to enjoy. That's the difference between now and years ago. Back in the day people weren't fucking stupid and didn't try to profit from these things. They released them to the internet under a pseudonym on places where they couldn't be censored. They didn't find exploits and do dumb shit like
>We found exploit for Switch 2. We're not sharing it though but it involves doing <x> then <y> because the exploit is in <z>.
or
>we're going to release an exploit we found with limitations. Since it should ONLY be used for "homebrew" and not piracy. We've already reported it to Nintendo btw. Please send me donations.

Act like faggots get treated like faggots. It isn't an hard concept to understand.

lmao

>>105646122
game was basically the pokemon game nintendo always failed to make, and it just made them mad someone else was making money off the concept, even though they've had decades to capitalise on it, there should be no way that nintendo wins agaisnt them since they used no nintendo ip and only generic gameplay mechanics , but its japan so who knows what the final decision will be. theyve already patched out a few things that shouldnt be patentable, so i dont expect a good outcome

Japs all read mange on their phone though subscription/credit services
they do love pachinko tho

>Why is physical media so popular in Japan compared to other countries?

>>105638942 (OP)
Whose gooncave is this?

>>105645795
theyre for patents for their arcade stuff not public games

>>105638942 (OP)
>Why is physical media so popular in Japan compared to other countries?
because they like to own things

>>105646311
>noo! it's because old population!
it's not.

>>105646225
>pachinko tho
such a retarded game but they've gone so overboard with the insane anime computer animations and soundtracks. hard not to like it.

>>105638942 (OP)
Japan is intelligent unlike wh*tes

>>105646311
>US not on the list because most troon out and shotgun themselves
grim.

>>105647126
That's only whites which includes europeans

>>105647223
what notable europeans are not on the list?
UKs?
slavs?

>>105645782
Cute Miku!

>>105643502
Any cute girls?

>>105638942 (OP)
Because they have not been totally corrupted by the Jews agenda for you to own nothing and be happy with subscriptions.
They instead have the $60 for 3 episodes of an anime series J(apanese)ewsish agenda