KK... now I'm offended. I am a Chinese Canadian and now they are automatically presuming that we like kiddy games with bright colors.

Red China owes its economic growth less to economic reform than it does to American companies who love an abundant labor market that will work for a dollar a day. The Chinese government shows us the rich downtown section of Shanghai, but were are all the workers working on slave wages? China hasn't really changed a bit. On the other hand, can't blame them for being opportunistic - our own captains of industry are subsidizing the Communist Party of China.

Japanese corporations do more for America than American ones do. Toyota and Sony keep on making more jobs for Americans while GM, Ford, and yes, Microsoft scream poverty and move jobs to China, India, and Mexico where they can pay their workers what the US penal system pays prisoners.

Take a look at a PS2 or Gamecube game and see where it's made (USA). Then take a look at where an Xbox game is made (Mexico). What is "buying American?" Providing a job to an American worker, or putting MORE money into Bill Gates' pocket?

Unfortunately, the hardware for all three companies is made in Red China.

What'd Sony do?Make a game where you run down pro-democracy protesters with tanks?I would try to think about something good to say about China,...but I can't.Country looks pretty I guess.

China is rising it's fact.

Commies Suck

haha that was really nice said Thanos. It's all a culture matter, the company that will infuse more successfuly into China's culture will be the moost succesful one.

A7Xfan "Everything about it is still communist."

You are right. That is also the reason why piracy is rampant in China. Intellectual property has always been property of the people there.

Go China !
China Rulz !
LOL

huh... Make a good game and have it pirated. It's gotta be hard to make money, and favoring games that promote China's culture means they're just brain-washed. Everything about it is still communist. As "bad" as we have it in the U.S. I'd still much rather be here.
Chinese market predicted to be that big is sweet too, but its just predictions.

i like the fatigue system! makes some of ur american kids get off there butts and get outside

A $2.1 Billion industry? With the rampant piracy in China I seriously doubt it.

the major barrier for ms, sony and nintendo to join chinese market is the price, if they sell the games at the price as what they do in other markets, i doubt if they can sell more than 100 copies. cos a lot of people in china earn less than US$250 a month, u can't expect them to expend 1/5 of their monthly income to buy a game.

sony will rule them all

i know nintendo has already influenced some of china with the ique...i think nintendo is poised to delve into that market

If it's online and has bright colors, it'll sell in China...

LOL!

well, since they are limited to how long they can play an MMO, to get around it you would have to buy more MMO's to get in more play time......making a surge of sales in the market. right?

Good. That has to happen. Let 'em in China earn the same kind (maybe slightly less, but nonetheless) of wealth as we do in the developed countries, coz the game developers/publishers seriously need more sales & better chance of profiting!

LaiGaiGeng
see into a stone wall .
i agree with you !

I think everyone has forgotten to take into account that China, becoming a major gaming nation, will be able to develope their own games and consoles (years from now). When that happens, it will brighten the dynamics of gaming, and introduce a much needed boost around the world. Let's face it, video games aren't as original/creative as they once were.

When the Chinese president visited America he didnt see the President of America but instead went to meet Bill Gates. And there is still a fair amount of animosity in China towards Japan after the WW2 thing and if you don't believe me, read up on it. So I doubt you'll see Sony or Nintendo doing very well in China but Microsoft has a good chance, or at least, a better chance than its competitors, in one of the fastest growing markets in the world.

In fact,many teenagers like sony.but YA like nintendo more,because they grows with nintendo's games,include me.

wow

This is good news for Chinese gaming companies. But I doubt it will have a huge effect to other markets. I don't see Chinese games becoming as big a force in the world as Japanese or even American games. Maybe in the distant future it might happen, but not by 2010, not even by 2020...

China,an owesome fast growing country,not only in online games,but everything.

I donno... Some Mainland China ppl hates the Japanese including Sony and Nintendo...

lets hope we dnt get the bird flu

China needs to lighten up

M$ doing well? How many X Box games ARENT violent or promote the things they stated were good in the chinesse market? The company of shooters has very little to give to the chinesse market IMO. Nintendo seems to be the one headed in the right direciton.

I don't see why MS can't do well in China. MS has bombed horribly in Japan (and if you think otherwise...well....you must not read EVERY sales report coming out of Japan....). But in some other places in Asia, namely Korea offhand, which is probably the next biggest rising game market there, MS has made more inroads than Sony has. at least with the devs. Japan is still by far the biggest player in the area, but you were saying they'd never make it in anyplace in Asia. Thats not true, like i said, they've already done great in Korea.

UMCP wrong it't actually Japan O and Macantosh sucks

China is getting stronger and stonger in everything..

Oh its not only political hatred between the Big Six and Nippon... The people hate eachother regardless.

Maybe it's no coincedence that the Chinese President had dinner at Bill Gates House. As Arseno Hall would say: "Things that make ya go hmmmm".

isn't the american gaming industry 6 or 7 billion a year? 2 billion by 2010 isn't that much. but i don't want to see western developers making their kind of boring games.

they say their government doesn't want "killing" games but WoW sells well there? i dont understand this.

true, China really wants to be more self sefficient
other than large MMO's, few games really make an impact in China
and of course, the political hatred between China and Japan don't help either
(they made a game about killing Japanese people)
they also are attempting large a lot of competition for American and Japanese computer and hardware companies

China will be a major driving force in a lot of markets in a few years. They have developed their own 3G standards (for mobile communications), have designed their own O.S. and their onw chip. I think that we will be seeing more and more content being played in China and developed in China.

wait til they start drivin as many cars as we do...... then ill be too poor to drive to buy video games...... since less than 15 % of them have cars, more of them play video games than own cars.

lol

gaming has always been big in Asia not only in China but also here in the Philippines.

hey good job China

From what i understand Sony has been banned from the country because they offended the country with the PS2....Sony is not allowed back....there was a article on gamespot about this ...or you can google it. Currenntly Microsoft is in negotiation with the chineese governmnet and are awaiting their approval.

whoever is first to attract the chinese gaming crowd will earn tons of profits

The more affluent the Chinese get, the more likely they may be to take up gaming as a recreational endeavor. With over a billion people, mostly single males, that would create quite the demographic for gaming to gain popularity.

either nintendo or sony, i doubt microsoft will have big impact in any of the far eastern countries

lol the fatigue system sounds interesting. Something that might get lazy bums in our country to start doing something. Not saying ive never played more then 3 consecutive hours.

/\ Or Nintendo

But the big question is are they gonna favor M$ or Sony

lol! at tbone..that made ma laugh

THats good hope it brings a lot more for them.

Good for them. Congrats China