Japanese game industry sees first rise year-over-year in 2 years

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bananaking21 on 29 June 2012

i think its mostly thanks to the 3DS

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Significant_leap on 29 June 2012

can we say Nintendo saved Japan? xD
anyway, i really hope Japan falls in love with the U as much as with the 3DS..

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MontanaHatchet on 29 June 2012

Mostly due to the strength of the 3DS. Hopefully the Wii U has an explosive launch and helps to continue the trend.

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UltimateUnknown on 29 June 2012

Yay, now can I get some more awesome JRPGs on my 3DS? Prty plz?

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DieAppleDie on 02 July 2012

Heroes of ruin is a very western oriented rpg
Braverly default and Fire emblem are the big jrpgs coming.........2013 ugh

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UltimateUnknown on 02 July 2012

spurgeonryan said:

UltimateUnknown said:
Yay, now can I get some more awesome JRPGs on my 3DS? Prty plz?

Kingdom Hearts on its way to America along with Heroes of Ruin. A few more weeks though for Kingdom Hearts. Have you checked out the eshop recently?

Yea I live in europe so Heroes of Ruin is already out. Played the demo, liked it but it is more reminicent of western mmos, which is sadly not my cup of tea. Downloaded Kingdom hearts demo and playing it now to see how I like it.

But yea there are quite a few great games coming out for it, I was looking at rune factory 4 which is coming out in japan as well as bravely default and beyond the labrynth. I just hope they get localised soon, if at all. And of course how can we forget monster hunter?

So yea there's some great games coming out, I just hope they come out soon. Maybe if we are lucky, we might even get a sequel to the world ends with you. That would make my decade.

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megaman79 on 06 July 2012

I think Nintendo winning Japan will matter a whole lot more in the next 3 years, firstly because of the handheld market fracturing overseas, and secondly because we just don't know what Nintendoland and NSMBWU is going to do.

They've got a good shot of taking Japan early with the Wii U, and Sony's delay on the PS4 will be a major issue a year from now.

“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.