Why can't the japanese get into pc gaming anyway?
Because they prefer consoles
PC has gotten pretty popular over there in recent years.
>>739024310PCs are for work and pornography
>>739024942True
>>739024876Yeah mostly because of esports cafés and streamers desu. Apex, Valorant, FF14, all that blew up and suddenly kids wanted decent rigs. Steam JP actually pushing localized indies helped too. It’s still way more laptops and prebuilts than giga custom towers though. Space is at a premium and console culture was entrenched for decades. It’s growing, just not in the same “basement battlestation” way as the west.
>>739024310Their PC and indie sphere/culture suffered due Sony, they had amazing games by the 90's and up till 2008
>>739029598What do you mean?
>>739024310Shift-JIS and its consequences have been a disaster for the Japanese PC industry.