2 Million consoles in just two days, HOLY SHIT!

>>11838551 (OP)
>HO-RI SHI-TO!

Early 2000s Japan. A better time.

>>11838551 (OP)
2 million consoles with nothing to play besides DVDs, 2 shogi games, and a mahjong game

>>11838565
Reminds me of a certain current console.

>>11838561
She looks like she doesn't want to be there

>>11838561
Damn she cute!

>>11838565
This game was not possible on the PlayStation 1!

>>11838565
It had at least 2 games a Japanese version of me circa 2000 wold have been excited to play.

>>11838551 (OP)
The Dreamcast never had a chance.

>>11838576
musou genre was born thanks to ps2

bubsy is learning

>>11838561
How is this different from modern japan?

>>11838561
Things went down the shitter for Japan as well as the Old Continent in the last few decades, that's for sure.

>>11838561
I don’t see how much modern Japan is different from the late ’90s or 2000s. Their currency went down the shitter recently, but there’s not much that can be done about it. And why would you even care? You’re not from Japan to begin with.

>>11838551 (OP)
PS2 games available at Japanese launch:

DrumMania
Kakinoki Shōgi IV
Morita Shōgi
Stepping Selection
Street Fighter EX3
Ridge Racer V
Mahjong Taikai III: Millennium League
Kessen
Eternal Ring
A Train 6

kek

>>11838656
Japanese products are an unironic source of joy for me. But I'm nta, there's shit loads of amazing Western media released in that time that would go on to inspire lil bro Japan to (basically) plagiarize it with a Japanese spin.

>>11838656
>And why would you even care? You’re not from Japan to begin with.

>>11838656
It's over for Japan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBM3nffRixU
If you didn't visit Glorious Nippon at least 20 years ago before YouTubers and the flood of gaijins ruined it then you will never get to experience the real Japan. Akihabara is such a joke nowadays compared to what it used to be.

>>11838718
I bet anything the guy running this channel is a LARPer who seethes because his genes werent folded a thousand times

>>11838656
The economy was dead back then, but it's been dead longer now, and back then they called it the lost decade because they thought it would eventually get better. Japan is the most advanced and disciplined society in the world, so they sometimes struggle with the fact that they get out-competed economically by shitholes with high population, but they're also afraid to sell out completely like the US and import a bunch of foreigners to fix the problem.
All of this adds up to create the current market for games/otaku media in Japan. Most of the legacy "big names" that don't have some kind of mobile gaming or gacha play are just dead companies who will never come back. It's pretty difficult to just be a console gaming otaku in Japan these days, if you aren't into manga or gacha games or idols or something too, the outlook is pretty bleak, because if the company that owns your franchise isn't running gacha games or doing stage shows or running IRL arcades or something (this is how namco survived) there just isn't enough money to make full budget games anymore.

Death of Akiba is overstated by foreigners though. It's like 4chan, the Japanese Otaku have been saying "it's shit now" for like 25 years, and some of them will tell you it was already shit when all those fun 700 man Haruhi Suzumiya dances were going on. Akiba very much has its tourist places (and times), and you want to avoid those like the plague, but if you look around hard enough you'll still find good stores and deals. It's still Akiba to me until there stops being an 80 year old man selling RCA cables out of a closet in an alleyway for no reason, that was always the appeal to me not the otaku dance party crap.

>>11838694
The Japanese tend to take familiar concepts from Western and Southeast Asian cultures and twist them beyond recognition (think of the Fate or Magi manga series). This isn’t any better than what the Chinese do, copying existing ideas and turning them into mediocre or low quality versions. At least they’re not as bad as South Korea, where almost everything in their cultural heritage is just a copy of Japan.
>>11838698
I have to ask, why are you so concerned about a nation that shares virtually nothing with your people culturally, linguistically, or civilizationally, and is located on the other side of the planet?

Do you feel the same way about countries like Argentina, Malaysia, or the Philippines? And don’t give me a non sequitur response like “only certain countries matter in the grand scheme of things,” because I’ve heard that excuse a billion times already.
>>11838718
Japan has always felt like a strange place to me. They have some really odd things going on, like fermented basedbeans and “waifu robots.” What blows my mind is how people can walk past an anime ad poster showing what’s basically a 12 year old girl in a skimpy outfit and not think twice about it. How is that even acceptable? the whole DEI push and the flood of foreigners feel like just symptoms of an already decaying system.

>>11838809
>Basedbeans
I meant onions beans

Why does 4chan correct the term “onions” to based or onions? Wtf

Okay I'm confused here

>>11838809
>tend to
You're going to need a lot more examples than 2 to prove that.

>>11838820
Hello newfaggot.

>>11838820
>>11838825
noob down

>>11838809
>>11838820
>>11838825
back to >>>/reddit/ with you

>>11838551 (OP)
I remember PSM's launch coverage. I like how they included pictures from the line.

>>11838576
I don't see why not, it's just a larger scale beat 'em up, just have less enemies on the screen or something.

>>11838614
Don't look up who is living in Osaka now.

>>11838718
>that vid
Jesus fucking christ.

>>11838809
>What blows my mind is how people can walk past an anime ad poster showing what’s basically a 12 year old girl in a skimpy outfit and not think twice about it.
Most Japanese people don't approve of that kind of stuff. It's a niche market.