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Not directly related to mobile devices, but I found it really weird that lots of Japanese games on steam have a Japanese only version, that can't be sold outside of Japan. I'm really not sure if the benefit of that partitioning, but it probably comes from some of the issues they're facing in the mobile market
part of the reason for that iirc is japan has different laws and management when it comes to it.
in context of steam, its usually because japanese managment to launch games on steam is a different person for global organizations, and is usually incompetent. sometimes, the reason is a tually laws about voice/music licensing rights specific to japan