Unlike the US, and I assume most European countries, Asian countries don't mind putting tariffs on products to protect their businesses in addition to just plain making it extremely difficult to sell foreign products. This is just an example of how anti-foreign products the country as a whole can be for most things.
I were speaking from a consumers point of view, they're not xenophobic, but it's not simple at all bringing products into the states either..
My own company, forinstance, wanted to start a US branch by building a factory and setting up a few boats and some infrastructure for that factory in the states a few years ago.
The raw-material we wanted to buy and process further, were being dug into the ground, or dumped at sea, since it's beeing concidered as disposals in the states.
It's bio-degradable, so the enviromental damage by doing that isn't permanent, if it's done really carefully, but it's much better if they'd sell it to us.
We're currently handling about around 5 thousands of tonnes fish-disposals monthly, wich the US fish-industry spend lots of money to dump.
We'd probably create abit more than 100 US workplaces in our american branch, if we'd build something along the scale as the branch, I work at.
In addition it would be a new enviromental friendly industry, and a nice extra income for the american fish industry,
Unfortunately, it were impossible to convince US goverment that we could do it, even tough we've done it for two decades now.
We couldn't get a permit to build the factories, to show them how we did it, and they didn't thrust the documentation we brought over, since they weren't american.
We set up an american company with american partners owning half the shares..
Then we got abit further, now we were allowed to demonstrate the process.
But we still couldn't set up the necesarry factory, until we could proove how we did it in America.
So.. We built a factory-ship for this purpose, it took a few hundred million, and a few years.
But when it were done the FCC refused the ship entry to American territories, because they feared that we would rebuild the ship and start competing with landbased fish-industry, wich we wanted to buy the disposals from in the first place. :-/
We paid another 20 millions of dollar in docking fees sitting still at the docks, hoping to convince the FCC to let it into the states, to prove that we weren't making fish-bombs... And after a while it where decided it's not worth it anymore, the Americans were crazy, and we'd earn back our losses and expand in Chile or somewhere else instead,. :-/
So thrust me, it's pretty 'difficult' for foreigners to get their product into the US market aswell, the beurocracy is ipretty nsane.
It's probably not any dance on roses Europe either, I guess.
We also got tariff's and similar, in order to protect the natvie workforce
Didn't mean to go to far off topic.
Also the Japaneese media get easier access to Kojima than Cliff Blezinski, and they probably advertise more in their own media than Epic do,
When Dengeki comes out, it's more likely that you''ll be more likely to see a interview with Suda or someone than Gabe Newell.
And Japaneese gamers are grown up with Anime-mangas, more than superheroes, and might prefer to have stories reflecting that.
I think it's much more likely that cultural differences are the reason why consumer-habits vary, rather than xenophobia.
Although selling a quarter of Move's numbers is good given install base differences, and you'd think from word-of-mouth, interest would increase.
