Is steam the biggest PC platform in China too? Or do they have their own alternative?
It is becoming really really important. No one used it 3 years ago, when it had american pricing.
Since Valve introduced Chinese regional pricing, it became big. A lot of Chinese friends use it.
Also look at stuff like PUBG. Most owners are Chinese.
How does this decision make any sense?
It doesnt. Its not only Konami. A lot of japanese publishers dont have any consistent release politics for China.
Like I showed in my previous post, it doesnt make any sense.
Why is Burning Blood available, but not the two other One Piece Games.
Why was Naruto locked till 2 weeks ago?
Why are some K-T games available, others not?
Edit: Also something that happened. Japanese publishers try to circumvent regional pricing lately. You still have the normal currency conversion for some games, but Bandai-Namco, K-T, S-E set the price for their games to almost the same amount as US $. Doesnt really help them, since Sanada, which was more expensive in China this way, sold 1k.