Is the Japanese gaming industry in crisis? (BBC article)

[Mr Khan]

KillerMan said:

kowenicki said:

Yes.  Of course it is.

There is lots of evidence and support for this notion and I have cited much of it in the past...always been shot down though because the much of this site, its forum and its owners/contributors have a soft spot (might even say favour) the Japanese games industry.

Now I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that but it does tend to colour ones judgement. 

 

Just look at financial reports from puplishers.It's west that is doing poorly. Yes unit wise western puplishers ship more games nowadays but it doesn't mean anything if you are unable to make profit from those sales. I also love how people forget handhelds. Japanese companies are dominating handheld software market.

You're correct. It's only if we take the rather interesting view of the video game industry as only consisting of X360, PS3, and PC that we can somehow rationalize a world where Japan is growing increasingly irrelevant (though i blame the fact that many of their frankenstein "we have to appeal to the west" efforts end up appearing on HD consoles, damaging their appeal). If we look at the three platforms that, between them, make up about 2/3rds of the dedicated games industry, the West isn't even a presence worth mentioning