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Ironically, I think you just explained why there's a market for these games. :)

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However, Japanese women are among the least attractive of all Asian women

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However, Japanese women are among the least attractive of all Asian women - the Koreans, Thais, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, and Chinese all have a far higher percentage of knockout women.

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The latest data on that most fraught of Japanese economic institutions, marriage, indicates a woman’s preferred salary for their husband is in the region of at least ¥6,000,000 annually, even though actual husbands generally earned as little as half that.

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Japanese women were asked how much of their husband’s money he should be allowed as “pocket money” for covering expenses such as food, entertainment, hobbies and similar, and nearly half felt he should only be allowed a mere ¥1,000 a day. Japanese wives have traditionally controlled the finances of the household, and it seems even in the era of “gender equality” the expectation is that this arrangement continues. Household expenses and saving (relatively high in Japan) are in these cases determined by the wife, with husbands relegated to the status of yoked oxen.

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53% of Japanese women surveyed reveal once again they have no confidence that they could win their boyfriend back from the non-existent clutches of a 2D girl.

When asked whether they thought they could win against a 2D game character their boyfriend was besotted with, 53% thought they had “no chance” whist 47% had confidence they could defeat the pixelised challenger.

Placed in such a situation, 20% “wouldn’t really mind,” 45% “would like him to stop” and 28% would just like him not to do it in front of them. Only 7% would respond by dumping the offending male.

The threat from Nene appears great indeed, to these women at least.

Defeated women report their feelings of inadequacy:

“There’s no way I can beat that level of cuteness.”
“Their personalities are nice and they have no flaws. Complete perfection.”
“They’re made to be the ideal girlfriend after all.”
“Because he has a manual any man can enjoy a game as much as he likes.”

Some women are irrationally optimistic all the same:

“A game can only play out as it is programmed to.”
“The girl in a game can’t offer the human warmth a real woman can.”
“The unpredictability of reality is a charm unto itself.”
“There’s no way a mere game could win against a real woman like me!”

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Several Japanese ladies in their thirties were interviewed about their thoughts on the matter:
“If my boyfriend fell for a 2D girl it would be absolutely gross.”
“If he went with 2D I’d really feel there’s a problem with me, as a real woman.”
“I’d be totally shocked. I think I’d think the problem was with me and I was lacking something. It’s just like a man with a girlfriend pursuing a fake romance with a hostess or going with a prostitute, isn’t it?”
“If he is going to fall for someone else, at least make it an idol. You just can’t compete against a 2D character.”

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A man whose marriage all but ended, thanks in part to hit virtual schoolgirl sim Love Plus, has explained the devastating effect Nene had on his relationship with his wife. He describes how his marriage collapsed under the weight of Nene’s charms: I did write that I divorced, but we haven’t actually filed the papers, rather I just returned to my family home. I’m a 29-year-old systems engineer, with no children and a 28-year-old wife. It seems exaggerated to say Love Plus is to blame, but still it went like this:
* I kept coming home late every night.
* My wife became enraged.
* I said “Rather than you I think I’d much rather be welcomed home kindly by Nene-san (Game character of Love Plus)!”
* Marriage ends. After I said it, I thought “I’ve done it now,” but my wife was already looking at me like I was dirt, with a “this guy’s no good” look in her eyes.