<![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> @badmoogle: OVER 22 hours.

Heh, maybe one day they'll have enough money to regularly afford non-pirated games. It's been real interesting watching the rise of China from all angles. Can only wonder what's gonna happen next...

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> "Niko puts the number of hardcore Chinese gamers at 14 million, with that group playing over 22 hours per week."

Wow,this could have been a small nation full of hardcore gamers.
22 hours per week is not very hardcore though.

badmoogle

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> @sander_dutch:

actually i've found a couple of stores that sell the PS3 40GB for 2,700 and the xbox360 (the new Falcon units) for 2,900.

vx2

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> I'm currently studying Chinese in Shanghai and i've got to say, PSP outsells em all! You won't believe the amount of people carrying a PSP, from teenage boys to middle aged women. That's not all though, next you'll see a 4GB card installed and a ton of pirated Jap/Chi games. Wii comes to a close second I presume and 360 third. Wii games sell for like .75$ and Xbox360 games sell for like 1.25$. The PS3 isn't even close to them, they're selling them LOWER than the price of an xbox360 premium.

vx2

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> ps2 is popular mainly because you can buy pirated games for like a dollar at the copy market.

ps3 I dont think has been cracked yet so it isnt popular at all but I hear they have pirated psp and 360 games now

TT

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> 360 = hacked.

PS3 = not hacked.

We're talking China, right? Let's guess which they'd prefer...

jsf49

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> I can tell you this, the 360 is not more popular than the ps3 because of its price point, its because here (Shanghai) you can buy all the 360 games pirated for 5RMB (US$0.7), whilst ps3 games are not available in pirated form and cost 400-500rmb (US$57-72).
However, a PS3 does cost 3200rmb (US$463) and a modded 360 costs about 2500rmb (US$362). You just never have any warranty since everything is imported from Japan/Hong Kong, and that just sucks for the 360 with the looming RROD.
Also, because 360's are modded, you won't find many Mainland Chinese on live yet, while I've already met plenty of Chinese on PSN.



sander_dutch

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> The gaming world is getting smaller and smaller. This is the same thing I was noticing in Latin America. I'm colombian and about 10 years ago I went there to visit and you could barely find any games except for maybe at upscale malls where it was a rent-to-play or at some shady boutique. But, I went about 2 years ago and now everyone has a PS2 or an Xbox. I can only imagine what the Wii is doing over there right now. Or, how well the PS2 is still doing.

firstworldman

]]> <![CDATA[China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion]]> "Between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Hanson claimed Xbox 360 is more popular in China for its price point and library."

Selling two 360s a week more than the PS3 still makes both consoles look like failures.

Malvolio the Magician

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