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* ''[[Skullgirls]]'' has a loyal following in the West, but has such a large fan following in Japan that Reverge Labs is working on both a retail disc version of the game for Japan (since Japanese gamers don't care for DLC) and an arcade version.

* While [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] is ''the'' poster boy for video games everywhere, his [[Video Game 3D Leap]] wasn't as popular in Japan. For one the [[Sega Saturn]] kept outselling the [[Nintendo 64]] for a long time there and more recently, ''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii]]'' outsold ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' within just 3 days of its Japan release.

* Capcom is convinced that Americans Love Frank West of ''[[Dead Rising]]''. So convinced, in fact, that they plan to [http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-loves-frank-west-wants-him-in-everything-172114.phtml turn him] into their own version of [[Wolverine Publicity]]. [[Tropes Are Not Good|Uh oh...]]

** Well, they're kinda on the money with Frank's [[Memetic Mutation|internet popularity]]. He might not be quite as popular as they think though.

* Of the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' series, in the western fanbase, ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' and/or ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Thracia 776]]'' are regularly cited as the best and most beloved of the series, despite the fact that [[No Export for You|neither of them were ever officially released outside Japan]]. Compare to Japan, where not only do they cite [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Marth's games]] as the best ([[Americans Hate Tingle|which just confuses western players]]), but ''Genealogy'' even got the lowest Famitsu review score of the entire series (though it still sold well).

* Not that he's lacking popularity in Japan, but from ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', Iron Tager seemingly gets more fanbase in America, helped with the [[Values Dissonance]] of how manliness is better valued in America and he's probably the second manliest character in the game (after Bang) as well as helped with some American-exclusive memes like "REAL SOVIET DAMAGE" and "GIGANTIC TAGER!" (The Japanese version instead censors with [[Kenji Nomura]] yelling "Gauntlet Hades" thus missing out the joke), and one of the more higher-tier male voice actor ([[Jamieson Price]]) to voice him, making him seeing more fanbase in America.

* [[Sweet Home]] is an obscure Japanese RPG based of the movie of the same name and was almost forgotten. In the US, a high amount of interest surged after it was discovered to be a huge inspiration for [[Resident Evil]].

* While the [[Nintendo 64]] and [[Game Cube]] were beat by their [[Play Station]] rivals worldwide, they were both even less popular in Japan than they were in North America and Europe. It was very often when the Playstation 1 and/or 2 version of a game got a Japanese release while the N64/Gamecube version stayed in North America and Europe (sometimes, even North America only).

 

== In-Universe Examples ==

* In one episode of Telltale's ''[[Sam and Max]]'' series of episodic games our heroes are cast as the stars of a TV show called Midtown Cowboys, which in a later episode proves to be insanely popular in ''Germany'' despite being cancelled right after the first episode in the U.S.

* In ''[[Ace Attorney|Investigations]]'', it turns out that the Steel Samurai is incredibly popular in Allebahst while the Jammin' Ninja is very popular in Babahl.