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But this thread isn't about Marat Fayzullin and fMSX. Is about Japan ignoring the rest of the world, as usual.

That's the negative approach, and with quite a limited view, and frankly said sounds quite offensive and generalizing towards the Japanese in general and MSX-Association in particular. A positive one would take language barriers and common sense business decisions as an explanation for why the Japanese 'get more than we do'.

As was explained before, a release overhere means that it'll have to be translated into X languages ('cause indeed English only just won't do), needs distribution and licenses to be negociated and paid for, involves big risks. Would be taking quite big chances for a first step, since when is starting small such a bad decision?

And in the end there's ofcourse also the 'copy-cat' attitude that still reigns here on the western PC software market, also often blamed for the demise of MSX in Europe. People in Europe would probably copy it from a friend or so to check it out (talking about software here, not the magazine), and in the end not buy it. That's not helping either.

Take a look at anime... There's much bigger business in that, and even that is only now starting to be commercially exploited here in Europe. There's a small target audience for 'MSX-stuff' aswell, so you can't just take any risk which stands in your way. You have to set priorities. Empires are built over decennia, not created in one single day.

It's all just common sense. No need to blame the people in Japan who are putting their necks out for us.

~Grauw

Don't u think Europe ignores Japan just as much as vice versa? what about U.S.A.? it's all business dudes