Inafune: “Japanese Game Industry is finished.” (Malstrom)

[Avinash_Tyagi]

First off, your chart on PC gaming only goes back to 1998, you're missing a huge chunk of time prior to that in which PC gaming had fallen from its highs. PC gaming at one point was nearly the entire gaming market, by 1998 it was a minority, this was long before piracy.

And your argument that Playstation sent things into the biggest economy and that's why its in decline is flawed, first off in terms of sales the PS1 generation was smaller than PS2 gens and Wii's gen will be even larger than PS2's in terms of sales, not to mention Handheld gaming is larger than before, so the Wii gen is going to send gaming even larger overall, in terms of sales and revenues, but that won't matter because profits aren't rising. Its not the economy, this was an issue back before the economy started to tank. The big issue is the fact that while sales and revenues have risen, profits have not, in fact profits have fallen as costs of gaming have risen faster than sales and revenues.

 

Nintendo is one of the few companies to figure this out, which is why they have mad profits and security for the future