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Why Are Nintendo Characters In This Chinese Smartphone Promotion?
2Many game developers are rushing towards mobile phones as a place to release their games. Nintendo, however, has preferred to stick close to its own gaming hardware. Which is why it’s so odd that Nintendo characters appeared at this mobile phone booth at the recent China Joy gaming expo.
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Hold Your Horses, Don’t Get Excited About Consoles In China…Yet
Earlier this week, China’s State Council sneakily released a document about regulations in the nifty Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Due to this release, media outlets have been calling China’s archaic 13-year ban on video games consoles to be over. I’m here to rain on everyone’s parade.
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Chinese CEO: China To Get Xbox One In Late 2014
China, the land where game consoles are currently still in a quasi-banned state, the console wars pretty much haven’t started yet. Grey market imports of both PlayStation 4s and Xbox Ones are slowly trickling in, but it seems that, after all, the scales might tip in Microsoft’s favour.