A month ago, it was announced Xbox One would come to China in September. It didn’t take long before Sony’s Play Station announced they would be making their debut in the Far East.
Sony will team up with Shanghai based company Oriental Pearl Cultural Development (acronym OPCD) to form companies based on sales manufacturing of hardware and license/distribution of software. Ironically, Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s Play Station? are both part of the Shanghai Media Group. According to their own statement, they want to introduce quality games suitable to national conditions and relevant to government policies. The release of Play Station in China isn’t yet known.
You know, China released a ban on video games. It was a light ban, but a ban nonetheless. So the statement about bringing games suitable to national conditions and government policies just scream censorship to me, which is never a good thing. I guess we won’t be seeing any M for mature games sold in China, or any games glorifying the US, the way things are Geo-politically. Some of you may wonder why I even talk about China. Well, it’s the fastest rising economy in the world. And it’s a major step they’re even selling video games at this level. So the success or failure of video games there is going to have global economic ramifications. So will Play Station be a hit or flop in China?