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  Sep 19, 2010

  To Regain Video Game Lead, Japan Looks to West

  A growing group of Japanese game developers is asking a once-unthinkable question: can they learn from the West to get back on top of the video game business?

Cultural differences. We can consult game theory for a first parse. That will not be very useful but it will start the thought process on the mechanics of games. We can consider Hoyle, we can consider law, we can consider religion we can consider war, both the strategic and the tactical aspects. Philosophy enters early and often.

The problem is always that "the dogs don't like it."
The pot is getting full time to find the commonalities. Skill, Chance, probabilities, economics, acess to resources, connectivity, coupling, impedance.

What is the risk, what the reward. There is more here than pachinko.