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Posted July 11, 2013
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N0x0ss: True, true... Only : The iQue Player was released on 17 November 2003 with a few launch titles. Nintendo strategy to market games in China was to show how videogames can help improve children's mental and social development.
That would be why then, China banned consoles because they were worried that violent games would harm the mental development of children. (although I have no idea why they did not ban pc games either then)
Posted July 11, 2013
Good. Now they can become fat and lazy just like every other normal person.

What's that? They want higher wages for the same ammount of work? Great scott! It's already working!
Posted July 11, 2013
What's that ??? One Child Policy ??
Video game systems paradise <3 !!!
Posted July 11, 2013
People talk about lifting the ban for couple years now. Anyhow it doesn't really matter for that market.
Posted July 11, 2013
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Strijkbout: The chinese goverment has seen the benefits of the Xbox One and will supply one to every household in China so they can better keep an eye on them and spam them with propaganda (advertising) of course.

PC's will probably be banned in the future, too much freedom. =/
Heh. You know, this Xbox One humor video is the first thing that popped into mind when I read that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWcKtJj5_oY


On topic, I can see why they'd lift the ban. Despite the Internet restrictions that exist in China, I'm sure there's ready access to all manner of web based games, digital downloads, and so forth that function well even on basic, low cost PCs. Especially for savvy users. The ban just seems rather pointless, and hey, there's always the opportunity for taxation and revenue.
Posted July 12, 2013
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N0x0ss: True, true... Only : The iQue Player was released on 17 November 2003 with a few launch titles. Nintendo strategy to market games in China was to show how videogames can help improve children's mental and social development. At first, the only way to get games was to buy them via the iQue Depot, but in 2009, Nintendo released Fugue Online to download games at home. The latest game released was released in 2006.
(Source Nintendo )

And If I recall, the Zeebo (released around 2011 if I recall correctly) was meant for third-world markets among witch : China... So I really think that selling video game systems weren't as much illegal as monitored and strictly controlled.

Yet another article on wikipedia clearly states : On the other hand, video game consoles have been banned in the country since the early 2000s, in response to parental concern for youth productivity.

I really think that there's a big misunderstanding about how exactly and to what degree consoles or systems, be it handhelds or not, are banned in Mainland China.
I just found out the answer. The article didn't mention that it's not a ban on all consoles, it's a ban on foreign consoles. Nintendo couldn't simply sell their systems in their original state in China, so they managed to get around it by licensing their games out to iQue and allowing them to build their own versions of Nintendo consoles.

Quite ingenious, really.
Posted July 12, 2013
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N0x0ss: True, true... Only : The iQue Player was released on 17 November 2003 with a few launch titles. Nintendo strategy to market games in China was to show how videogames can help improve children's mental and social development. At first, the only way to get games was to buy them via the iQue Depot, but in 2009, Nintendo released Fugue Online to download games at home. The latest game released was released in 2006.
(Source Nintendo )

And If I recall, the Zeebo (released around 2011 if I recall correctly) was meant for third-world markets among witch : China... So I really think that selling video game systems weren't as much illegal as monitored and strictly controlled.

Yet another article on wikipedia clearly states : On the other hand, video game consoles have been banned in the country since the early 2000s, in response to parental concern for youth productivity.

I really think that there's a big misunderstanding about how exactly and to what degree consoles or systems, be it handhelds or not, are banned in Mainland China.
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Hesusio: I just found out the answer. The article didn't mention that it's not a ban on all consoles, it's a ban on foreign consoles. Nintendo couldn't simply sell their systems in their original state in China, so they managed to get around it by licensing their games out to iQue and allowing them to build their own versions of Nintendo consoles.

Quite ingenious, really.
I see.... Nintendo & Sega did the same thing a while back with the Snes and Genesis, Changing their names and selling them under a different company name... I think it was in Taiwan ... Gonna search and see if it's true.


Edit : It was in South Korea and it was distributed by Hyundai electronics under the name super Comboy for the Snes according to wikipedia
And for the Genesis (Or sega mega drive) : It was sold by Samsung Electronics under the brand name Super Aladdin Boy 2.
Post edited July 12, 2013 by N0x0ss
Posted July 12, 2013
Looks it's downhill for gaming in China now...
Posted July 12, 2013
As I understood the restrictions it was never an outright ban on video games in and of them selves but a general ban on western culture. They have a lot of restrictions on movies and music as well. This is a large part of why piracy rates are so much higher in places like China. If they were to lift all restrictions of this kind it would do more to stop internet piracy than any of the idiotic direct legislation, such as SOPA/PIPA, ever would.
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