Kojima: Japanese game industry is in trouble

[Ail]

I would tend to agree with Kojima.
Software sales on the Japanese market outside of the DS handheld have been very poor this last few years compared to the beginning of the 2000s...

I mean, check sales outside of the release of a big titles, some weeks total console sales are bellow 100k...That's not even poor but just pityfull....

As for hardware, well the Japanese market is becoming smaller than the french market and last I checked the Japanese market was twice as big....

For a long time the Japanese game developers could sustain just on their internal market sales, that is clearly not the case anymore and they are having troubles expending to the West...