They release sales data on most products. While sales data doesn't always correlate to how good a game was, it was a safe bet.
Is also right. And if you weren't a social reject you could always rely on a friend to borrow from. And the price of games fricking plummets in Japan if you're willing to wait a little.
>In Japan you can always return a game if you don't like it.
this is true literally everywhere with consumer protection laws
the law states that if you're not 100% satisfied with any product that you can return it within 2 weeks as long as you still have the receipt.
t.in college we used to buy playstations with games and the gun controller just to use for a weekend LAN party then return it the following Monday. we got away with it 3 times before they started getting suspicious.
Sure, but you have to fight for it sometimes. I remember my older brother bought the south park game on teh N64 and tried to return it the next day, the guy was like "nope" and my brother was like "quick bro, start crying". Then it worked.
>but you have to fight for it sometimes
not really
if they make some excuse you use the O word (Ombudsman) and they fricking cower
works with almost anything
I'm probably a lot younger but I remember pulling something pretty similar during my 8th grade summer and I think the key is going to different stores >Don't have my own money >Obviously parents pay for everything for me since I don't have a job >Get GTA IV, get my fill of it >Return it to separate gamestop than the one I bought it from >Get Modern Warfare 2 >Have my fill of Modern Warfare 2 >Go to mall with my mom since it has a different gamestop than the one we usually go to >Return Modern Warfare 2, get Blazbue Continuum Shift >Go to different Gamestop with friend when his mom takes us because I was tired of getting my shit rocked online >Get Xbox live gold because mine was close to running out
I don't even know if this cheat code still works but it doesn't really matter now since I have the disposable income to able to absorb a 20 dollar purchase I don't like.
Negative sales THAT WEEK, like, it sold 10k the first week, but more were returned that week than sold, so its sales for that week went into the negative
Sold 2000 week 1.
Sold 1000 week 2. Also, 1500 returns from the people who bought it week 1 but didn't like it.
1000 - 1500 = -500 (Negative five hundred) copies sold in week 2.
>saw a preview of demon crest on a magazine once >couldn't find it anywhere >japanese motherfrickers were returning it
I need a japanese gamers representative right here right now to tell me what in the actual frick
Didn't they have like a gorillion game magazines back then? When I go look for old pc game magazines there's always a sea of old japanese ones for every computer and system
>How did they know what games to buy then?
word of mouth
even now, Japan is a country where shit sells more by reputation and word of mouth than by any sort of advertising or marketing.
massive corporate franchise restaurant with TV commercials everywhere?
empty
hole in the wall take-out place with no sign, no menu run by a woman in her 80s?
line around the block all hours of the day, food is sold out before 9am.
I don't know.
>"I don't know"
This is the funniest shit I've seen in a while and I can't explain why.
>This is funny
>I can't explain why
The joke is that there's no punchline.
>I cant explain why
Autism.
>have problem
>getting worked up about it
>remember this pepe
>dont have problem
>autism: untreated
King
op btfo
Watch Famitsu reviews
Browse xeeter reviews
Read 2chan shitposts.
2channel
Japanese never made bad games. You could walk in a store, buy a game with moonrunes all over it and know it would be kino.
>Japanese never made bad games
Japan just made FF16
The sentence was in past tense.
In Japan you can always return a game if you don't like it. Good system, honestly.
I'm reminded of the game Demon's Crest, which so many people hated and returned the next week that it ended up having NEGATIVE sales that week.
They release sales data on most products. While sales data doesn't always correlate to how good a game was, it was a safe bet.
Is also right. And if you weren't a social reject you could always rely on a friend to borrow from. And the price of games fricking plummets in Japan if you're willing to wait a little.
so you were gambling on release day then?
There were still game trailers, ads, and magazine shit so you were never completely blind. But definitely not as much information as today
>Demon's Crest
It's astonishing how Japan can make such amazing vidya and yet have such appalling taste, that game is kino.
Even most Japanese gamers aren't sure why that happened. Main guess is they're not as hot about dark and depressing games as we are.
>In Japan you can always return a game if you don't like it.
this is true literally everywhere with consumer protection laws
the law states that if you're not 100% satisfied with any product that you can return it within 2 weeks as long as you still have the receipt.
t.in college we used to buy playstations with games and the gun controller just to use for a weekend LAN party then return it the following Monday. we got away with it 3 times before they started getting suspicious.
Sure, but you have to fight for it sometimes. I remember my older brother bought the south park game on teh N64 and tried to return it the next day, the guy was like "nope" and my brother was like "quick bro, start crying". Then it worked.
>but you have to fight for it sometimes
not really
if they make some excuse you use the O word (Ombudsman) and they fricking cower
works with almost anything
I'm probably a lot younger but I remember pulling something pretty similar during my 8th grade summer and I think the key is going to different stores
>Don't have my own money
>Obviously parents pay for everything for me since I don't have a job
>Get GTA IV, get my fill of it
>Return it to separate gamestop than the one I bought it from
>Get Modern Warfare 2
>Have my fill of Modern Warfare 2
>Go to mall with my mom since it has a different gamestop than the one we usually go to
>Return Modern Warfare 2, get Blazbue Continuum Shift
>Go to different Gamestop with friend when his mom takes us because I was tired of getting my shit rocked online
>Get Xbox live gold because mine was close to running out
I don't even know if this cheat code still works but it doesn't really matter now since I have the disposable income to able to absorb a 20 dollar purchase I don't like.
If you bought used games at gamestop, you were able to return them no questions asked within a week.
I remember I used to abuse that a lot
>I remember I used to abuse that a lot
Indeed.
What the frick? I had no idea. Demon's Crest is such an absolute classic. Fricking love that game.
>negative sales
>through returns
that doesn't make sense, nor do I believe you
Source is Nintendo Power issue 100.
Negative sales THAT WEEK, like, it sold 10k the first week, but more were returned that week than sold, so its sales for that week went into the negative
Sold 2000 week 1.
Sold 1000 week 2. Also, 1500 returns from the people who bought it week 1 but didn't like it.
1000 - 1500 = -500 (Negative five hundred) copies sold in week 2.
>saw a preview of demon crest on a magazine once
>couldn't find it anywhere
>japanese motherfrickers were returning it
I need a japanese gamers representative right here right now to tell me what in the actual frick
Didn't they have like a gorillion game magazines back then? When I go look for old pc game magazines there's always a sea of old japanese ones for every computer and system
word of mouth and ge magazine recommendations
>How did they know what games to buy then?
word of mouth
even now, Japan is a country where shit sells more by reputation and word of mouth than by any sort of advertising or marketing.
massive corporate franchise restaurant with TV commercials everywhere?
empty
hole in the wall take-out place with no sign, no menu run by a woman in her 80s?
line around the block all hours of the day, food is sold out before 9am.
Famitsu brainwashing.
Wait, you can still rent games? Where? How? I'm not buying a console for like 1-2 games.
gamepass
Gamefly is still a thing.
They don't abuse return policies so they are able to return them. The way it used to be here.
They have a very healthy and thriving used games industry which esentially functions in a similar manner.
You can literally "demo" games from the actual PHYSICAL REAL LIFE game stores
>wasn't
So it is now? Are you saying it/'s legal now or are you an ESL moron.
I was referring to the 80's/90's when kids would rent games before buying mostly.
Famitsu is actually a semireliable source of gaming information.
Isn't Famitsu just Japanese Nintendo Power?
Games were generally cheaper for them.