When will people realize that Japanese Gaming is irrelevant

[DanneSandin]

DirtyP2002 said:

DanneSandin said:

DirtyP2002 said:

I would not say irrelevant, but not as important as it used to be.

Japanese developers failed to create a franchise as big as Battlefied, CoD, GTA or even Assassin's Creed in the past decade. (not mentioning Halo, Uncharted and Gears for being exclusives) Furthermore their existing franchises declined rapidly. Final Fantasy, Resident Evil even MGS is not the highlight of the year as they used to be.

They try to reinvent their franchises but fail to do so most of the times.

You know that's wrong ;) the Wii-series (Wii Sports, Play, Fit etc) outsold everything! According to Wikipedia the Wii-series has sold over 190m copies, exclusivly to the Wii. CoD has sold (according to VGC) 130m copies - and to several platforms under a longer time.

And to say that the japanese's franchises are declining is to disregard the sales of NSMB to DS and Wii, Zelda TP and Mario Kart.

Yes, all the above exemples are from Nintendo - but Nintendo are from Japan ;)

read the sentence between the ones you highlighted. Nintendo is the only big japanese developer left.

Haha yeah, guess I got carried away! And I agree with your statement about Nintendo and the Japanese gaming scene in genereal as not as important any longer.