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Subtitles or Dubbing, Which Does Japan Want?

Not every Western game is subtitled. Remember the irritation from Japanese gamers over the dubbing Modern Warfare 2 got? Japanese gamers wanted to play the game with its original voices. But do all Japanese gamers want that?

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From April 2007 to December 2009, Japanese game company Spike polled over 6,000 users via postcards included with Spike titles. Here are the results:

Which do you want to play — Western games with subtitles or dubbing?

• Subtitles — 49 percent (3,277 votes)

• Dubbing — 47 percent (3,139 votes)

• Other — 4 percent (240 votes)

The breakdown by genre is especially interesting. For FPS games, 31.9 percent of players want subtitles, 59 percent want dubbing and 9.1 percent want literally ā€œotherā€, but more likely here it refers to ā€œno preferenceā€. For action games, 37.4 percent want subtitles, 46.5 percent want dubbing and 16.1 percent want ā€œotherā€. For role-playing games, 54.4 percent want subtitles, while 45.6 percent want dubbing.

Hardware-wise, 54.4 percent of Xbox 360 owners want subtitles, 45.6 percent want dubbing and 1 percent want ā€œotherā€. Regarding the PS3, 45 percent want subtitles, 52 percent want dubbing and 3 percent want ā€œotherā€.

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