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Post by Boo Destroyer on Mar 19, 2005 15:11:11 GMT -5
Along with the Nintendo 64 as well?
Just curious.
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Post by Doubutsu80 on Mar 20, 2005 9:46:55 GMT -5
I don't know, why are you from India?
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Post by Boo Destroyer on Mar 20, 2005 17:32:29 GMT -5
Yes, I hail from India. I've been there once and I swear, I saw a FamilyBasic keyboard in one store.
Boy, do I hope they have the new consoles there.
I would've thought FryGuy had answered this, though. I'm pretty sure he would know about this.
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Post by Boo Destroyer on Mar 20, 2005 18:53:25 GMT -5
Note: Sorry for the double-post (I wanted to put something else into a whole new post here). And the following isn't intended to be offensive. I picked it up from a comedian. Besides, Indian people and Japanese people cannot do business together anyways. Whereas, Indians cannot live without a bargain and Japanese cannot give you a bargain. Their objective is to get every penny from you and our goal is to keep 'em. Say, I went to the mall once into this store run by Japanese people (the wrong place for any Indian guy to go). I wanted to buy this bag, I look at the Japanese guy behind me and ask, "How much for the purse?" He goes, "$35!""Well, how about 30?" Now Japanese people would never tell you no, they won't tell you no, the longest no you've ever heard in your life. It's like you said the most ridiculous thing they've heard... "Okay, I'll give you 30..." "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo...No!! I can't do $30, I sell you $30 today. You come tomorrow, I close down!""Okay then, give me a deal. I don't want to pay $35." "Hold on, one second, I talk to my wife, one sec, thank you..."
*turns around and yells something in what sounds like Cantonese, Vietnamese, or Korean*I go like:  "Okay, you seem like nice guy. I give you best price: $34.50!""But that's 50 cents, dude!" "HEY! 50 cents a lot of money! You save 50 cents here then maybe you go somewhere else you save another 50 cents...then you have one dollar!"
"Then you take your dollar you go to the dollar store you buy something else!"He starts turning into my money manager: "Let me finance your plan for you.""Man, just forget it, it's not a deal, I'm not buying it. I'm leaving." Then he says stuff that has nothing to do with the situation. "I'm leaving..." "HEY!...BE A MAN!"
"BE A MAN! DOOO DA RIGHT THING!""What do you mean 'do the right thing'?!" "Maybe you don't buy the purse you go somewhere you walk around the mall you see something else you don't buy you come back you say, 'HEY!...I want the purse for $34.50!' I say, 'NO!....You don't buy for $34.50 now price go up maybe $40!'"
"............BE A MAN!"Just can't do business. We can work together, just not with each other. Thank you. |
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Post by Andronicus on Mar 21, 2005 3:25:02 GMT -5
Yeah, that's part of a longer comedy routine by an Indian comedian - the whole thing together is quite funny...
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 21, 2005 4:06:07 GMT -5
Well, I know that the NES had "Asian" versions very similar in style to the PAL Europe versions. I don't know if any of the later consoles came out in India.
Nintendo is focusing very much on untapped markets lately though, what with trying to break the cycle of pirate games in China, so maybe they are, or maybe they plan to. I don't know.
The videogame industry in Asia is not well documented.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Mar 22, 2005 7:27:20 GMT -5
Boodestroyer: Yeah I watched this joke on a video shown by my teacher. Now my class is still having fun from that "Be a man. Do the right thing"!
Pirated FC (or you call it NES, but they are disigned to look loke FC!) does exist in HK, but they aren't selling nowadays!
I don't know much about India, but in HK there are all kinds of systems. I plan to buy my miniclassic tomorrow, or maybe this weekend. Just to tell, anything starting from 1983 are still selling now! (That means, early Game and Watches are not on the market. Shame!)
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Post by dman212 on Mar 22, 2005 12:49:42 GMT -5
i gust came back frooom there the is only 64 i saw there and also bow down to fryguy64 our master on pro boards
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Post by mrmolecule on Mar 23, 2005 17:57:55 GMT -5
I heard Nintendo will be selling GBASP in China...bad idea! GBA has cartridges, and unlike the iQue, pirated cartridges will soon be flying all over!
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 24, 2005 4:20:50 GMT -5
That's the problem... pirated GBA carts are ALREADY all over China. Nintendo is hoping to get in on that market while it experiences this capitalist turnover the country has been experiencing in recent years.
If they manage to shake the pirates out of the loop somewhat then not only will they have aided the videogame industry as a whole, but will have market dominance in the world's most populous country. Good move, I'd say, and so far their shift into China (where I believe the GBA SP has been on sale for some time now) has not had quite the negative effect you believe it has. Nintendo is obviously prepared for problems... they're not stupid.
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Post by Hiker of Games on Apr 7, 2005 14:35:31 GMT -5
If Nintendo gets a stranglehold over the Asian market, particularily the Chinese one, that could definitely make up for their less that stellar performance in the American and European (and Australian) market.
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Post by Doubutsu80 on Apr 7, 2005 18:18:02 GMT -5
Malaysia also pirates games as well not just China
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Post by Fryguy64 on Apr 8, 2005 3:01:21 GMT -5
Russia too... any untapped market usually comes with a bad pirate scene. I think Nintendo is particularly interested in tapping China, not just to cut off the piracy scene, but also to grab hold of the country with the highest population. I wouldn't be surprised if India, with its increasingly popular reputation and a seedling of capitalist reform being planted, would be next. Country with the highest-density population... multiplayer games could do well  |
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Post by Andronicus on Apr 8, 2005 5:34:51 GMT -5
Yes Masamune, and Australia...  (Only good enough to make it between a pair of brackets, huh? Just joking around... ;D) Well, you know... Between China and India... you do have approx. 2 billion people! That's 1/3 of this here little planet we live on...  Seriously, it would be a great market to tap into (for any industry in the world) - hence the increasing rush to trade with Asia - the economic powerhouse and probable global dominant power of the future - and with Australia historically so tied up economically, there are plenty of commercial avanues that could open up between these neighbouring economies... as a Commerce student, this interests me a bit... Anyway, just some food for thought... |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Apr 8, 2005 7:48:57 GMT -5
Nintendo's performance isn't less-than-stellar... it's just not as stellar as Sony's (and if you include the Game Boy and DS, is certainly more stellar than Microsoft so far as game systems go).
And their cuddling-up to EA can only benefit them (well... unless they get bought up... but I suspect that won't happen. Too much pride in that thar Nintendo).
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