Playing Nintendo v24 - Korea Needs a Reggie-lution

[wraggster]

Article about gaming in Korea:

Go to any video game store in Korea and you’re bound to hear the name ‘Mario’ within a matter of minutes. Mothers come in looking for gifts for their kids, and they usually don’t ask for Final Fantasy, Tekken, or even Everybody’s Golf, despite the fact that Sony virtually owns the console market in this country. Rather, they ask for Mario, or “something like Mario”. Sadly, their requests are usually met with negative responses. Either stores simply don’t have any Nintendo products, or the little merchandise they do have is unreasonably expensive. What gives?

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[kcajblue]

“We’re not Nintendo!”. “Did you see Nintendo written on this building?! We don’t ****** care about that ****!”

thats not cool. everyone should care about Nintendo.

[lornranger]

Does that give u any idea? Perhaps I could earn money by opening a store selling Nintendo games in Korea.

[NoQuarter]

That's a shame, everybody needs to clean the pipes once in a while
At least they can play mario games on their psp's,lol