Why do all Japanese/Korean/Chinese names use fullwidth characters?

[Hiccup]

Fullwidth spaces/latin letters etc

Surely this isn't how they all really are on discs/packaging/websites/in-game?

[JosJuice]

For Korean games in particular, I've noticed that redump sometimes uses fullwidth spaces and sometimes uses halfwidth spaces. Seems kinda inconsistent... As far as I know, Korean usually uses halfwidth spaces.

[F1ReB4LL]

I think Shift-JIS with its wide symbols is a standard for Japanese typing.

[JosJuice]

But Shift-JIS also supports halfwidth characters. They do get used when writing Western language words embedded in Japanese text, albeit with exceptions.

[fuzzball]

I think Shift-JIS with its wide symbols is a standard for Japanese typing.

I feel ASCII characters are often half-width.

ref. https://www.yahoo.co.jp/

[F1ReB4LL]

Wiki pages, satakore.com and most of other console-related resources usually use full-width ones and people usually copy-paste them as is.

Surely this isn't how they all really are on discs/packaging/websites/in-game?

Meh, it's hard to say whether the symbols are full or half width on the cover when there's no other text nearby to compare with Though, if you look at obis/spine cards, the spaces are usually quite wide (especially before the subtitles).