Why did DDR lose so much popularity in Japan?

phonyreal · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005

I mean, for such a novel concept, why did it lose so much popularity?

Pokemon, while a novel game, was not a novel concept, and was popular for awhile in the late 90s and then lost popularity. However, DDR has a novel concept, so i'm wondering what caused the people in Japan to not play it anymore. Was it that the songs got boring or that the Japanese just have a short attention span when it comes to popular things?
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eluyes · Trick Member Joined: 07 May 2005

i dont know why but i heard its doing really well in america. Anyway where did you hear that its losing it pop. ? Just curious.

phonyreal · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005

here. ironic?

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Julie QQQ...? · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA

It got boring. People gain and lose interest with things quickly in Japan, and it just wasn't fun for the country as a whole anymore (why do you think they're up to 12th style in IIDX?). That's why they said they weren't releasing any new arcade DDR for either a long time or forever.

eluyes · Trick Member Joined: 07 May 2005

makes sense but i know i couldnt get bored so quickly theres still the fact that i cant pass every song yet

mydixiewrecked · Trick Member Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Shinmizu

toady007 · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject:

Short attention span?

DDR has been out over there for how many years now?

And hell, DDR has been popular in the US for a shorter amount of time and already people are bored with it to death and play ITG instead, or have quit altogether.
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Julie QQQ...? · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA

It's been out since 1998 (we all know that), but its popularity started to decline in Japan around Max 2. Ex was the last ditch effort to revive the game and was rumored to be perhaps the last arcade release long before it was actually released. So basically, over 8 mixes plus console versions were released in a four-year timespan. Take that tidbit of the number of machines that Shinmizu posted, and you have a blatant case of overexposure.

DDR got really, REALLY popular with Extreme in the United States, and with new players coming in all the time with the strength of the console versions, it still has a strong fanbase, more or less. It became evident that a race to AAA the game gave people the motivation to stick around. In Japan, that drive wasn't so prevalent. I doubt many hardcore Japanese people stuck around long enough to really care about the minor synching issues and stuff like that. Even the top players there would rather AAA Max 300 for the n-th time rather than fill out a scoresheet of AAA's.

T-14 · Trick Member Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Ottawa, Canada

I just hope it lasts a long time here
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DahrkDaiz · Trick Member Joined: 07 Mar 2004

Well, what you have to realize, is that America is much larger than Japan and the popularity of DDR in America will vary from region to region, heck, even from city to city. Japan is just one big compression of popularity, where in America, there's always someone out there who's lyet to discover the fun of DDR and when they get a new machine in a small town, then the craze of DDR will sky rocket in that town, where as veteran players in California will grow tired of it and move on. Extreme here has over 2 years being here, where the old players who started out in 5th mix have died out, we're getting many new players all the time and the popularity continues to thrive.

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phonyreal · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005

So I'm guessing that's why it's still fairly popular in some parts in the states? Japan is geographically a small area, and machines were so concentrated that people got tired of it. However, in the United States it's so much less concentrated. It's like putting sugar in water, if you put sugar in a small glass it will be so much sweeter than if you put sugar into a large glass. You will get tired of the sugary taste if the taste is more concentrated than if it is less conentrated.
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bemani-man · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Location: Ridgeland, SC

Beatmania IIDX and other Bemani drawing attention didn't help either, I'm sure... But I've even heard that Beatmania IIDX is starting to decline a bit...
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-dark-xuxa · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: illinois

the reason it died is because they have tripple Ad every song there and there is nothing to challenge them anymore

jas · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject:

gs68 · Trick Member Joined: 06 Apr 2002 Location: on a plane

I heard somewhere Pop'n Music is more popular than DDR in Japan; hell, there's even been a few PnM concerts.

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Kanadier · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:37 am Post subject:

oO The Fly Oo · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

because they finally got a life after like 10 years.

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