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

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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 publishers.It's west that is doing poorly. Yes unit wise western publishers 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.

nad you know that XBOX the main western console doesn't have a handheld so the games are both western and japanese

 

xbox on consoles bought alot of western games and PS3 the other japanese third party supporting hardware manufacture made big mistakes so this gen turned out bad for japanese industry