Tag Archives: industry

As I was watching the Tokyo Game Show last week, and seeing the triumphant return of the Japanese gaming industry, which had spent a decade in decline, migrating first to handheld devices, and then later on, to mobile gaming, it occurred to me just how strong of a show the Japanese …

The Japanese game industry is in trouble. Pretty deep trouble. The console market in Japan has been constantly declining for over a decade now, and it stands at a far more diminished stature now than it was at its peak- the Wii and the PS3 were a step down from …

Nobody has been as important and instrumental to the development and evolution of video games as a medium as Nintendo. Not only did Nintendo save the ailing console gaming industry back in the 1980s, it also defined, and redefined, multiple gaming paradigms, with its hardware and its software. Video games, and …