Why Japanese games are generally more expensive than European and American games?

Japan's glory in the game industry is a thing of the past, and the game style that is too localized is to cater to a group of players in its own country, but the unchanged Japanese style is still far behind the European and American manufacturers in terms of game graphics and game world view. That's why Japanese games are going downhill. If you look at the series of games in Europe and the United States, you can clearly see the development of their game production technology, although Japan has also developed, but it is really not very obvious.

It's more expensive than Europe and the United States, and that's just a marketing strategy, and it doesn't mean how good their games are. On the contrary, large companies in Europe and the United States have new works almost every year, and it is also a strategy to recoup sales by discounting, but this gives people a feeling that European and American games are cheap (because of the old discounts), which gives some second-hand trading market opportunities, European and American games are not valuable, and Japanese games are worth money.

Thank you. As for why Japanese games on Steam are expensive, many players say that Japanese manufacturers are used to it, or Japanese manufacturers don't regard China as a low-price area or something, in fact, as a steam platform, you can see in China itself It has little to do with regional pricing, and the main difference is the pricing style of these Japanese game manufacturers.

Generally, the pricing of Japanese games is very uniform, and if there is no language barrier, Japanese products are almost the same as buying them on Steam. The second is the attitude towards the platform is different, some more international Japanese games, will also participate in steam discount activities, but most of them are put on the sale of a plan, itself depends on local sales, China's stand-alone market is rampant piracy, so like the "Three Kingdoms" series, perennial original price sales, discount is cheaper than a dozen yuan.

However, it can't be said that all Japanese games are ** strong on Steam, and the sales concept of the Japanese on the multinational platform still has certain limitations, and their games almost lack the concept of internationalization except for PS to PC. Games like "Ni no Kuni" are basically the same as Ubisoft, and they must be expensive when they are first launched, and it will take a year and a half to wait for the discount. There is also a strange kind of "Virtual Girlfriend", which was set for more than 100 at the beginning, and the sales were too good, and Lima doubled.

In general, Japanese games, if you really like them, are actually enough for console consumption. The appearance of Japanese-style games on Steam is more of a multi-platform multi-market, and manufacturers don't care about sales. Most of the Japanese-style games on Steam are PS, NS works, such as "Big Bear's Farm Story", and console players have played it hard when they land on Steam.

Mainly because there are few paying players and the cost is shared greatly. Secondly, the development cost is relatively high, and there is no more mature industrial chain like other countries to reduce costs.

Because Japanese games are priced high in order to filter players, and those who buy the game are loyal fans, the quality of gamers will improve.

Because these games are large-scale productions and have high R&D costs, they are generally more expensive to sell in stores.