proelite
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No doubt in the last part but selling 17 million units in two weeks is not unprecedented.
Chinese Video/Computer Games
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No doubt in the last part but selling 17 million units in two weeks is not unprecedented.
It's pretty unprecedented for a single player game from a developer without any previous AAA credentials.
Per what's been reported by some in the industry, in terms of pace of initial sales, it's behind only the likes of GTA 5 and the recent CoD MW2 release, and those were obvious titans in the industry already in terms of both developer and franchise longevity when they were released.
Kpop is government sponsored and it works fine though. The minute they let it go fully private, they were destroyed by Netflix.
all China needs is to loosen the restrictions on LGBT and suggestive content.
The flood of BL/GL anime/webnovels/manhua will annihilate everything.
proelite
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I mentioned before there is a huge market for custom adult content involving props, plot, costumes, and special effects that will play to Chinese strengths.
Another market is adult games and animations.
My spouse plays love and deep space and would pay money for an adult version with explicit sexual content despite no having spent a dime on the game yet.
this will have to wait for another generation. I think it will be the first restriction to be loosened. I don't think the ghost, violence or politics restrictions will ever be loosened IMO. There's far more risk and cultural baggage there.
proelite
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At least on the ghost and violence restrictions, I've seen them very inconsistently applied. i.e. Coco being okayed despite the whole movie being about ghosts.
The story of how Black Myth: Wukong was made
That is 18M on Steam (PC) alone! There were 3M PS5 players reported during first week so no idea how many now. Full sales of both platforms should be well over 20M with XBox coming later.
I think when it is all said and done, after DLCs and XBox edition, we could be in the 30M range in the first year or two of release. That would be unprecedented for a first time AAA publisher and a practically solitary achievement for a non-Western/Non-Japanese one. This is Elden Ring, Call of Duty, Diablo, level success.
Stellar Blade that people also points to in helping to break the Western/Japanese duopoly was published by Sony though developed in South Korea. It is considered a success at 1M sold.
Stellar Blade that people also points to in helping to break the Western/Japanese duopoly was published by Sony though developed in South Korea. It is considered a success at 1M sold.
What restrictions? There's pretty much only politics and also if they want to be rated under 18, on lewd content.
Look at wukong it's like 100% violence content. And also ghosts????? Literally never seen any source talk about it. Some 50% of wukong bosses are ghastly Buddhist inspired demons. Even fucking pg13 genshin has a ton of afterlife themed content.
Phantom Blade coming eventually with so far looks like more realistic gore than Sekiro.
The politics thing I've always felt should be completely removed. Media should be used to shape the narrative of politics and history.