Game Over for TGS and the industry?!
The Tokyo Game Show 2009 is over and it seems the event failed to impress, according to some estimates on attendance…
Blame swine flu fears or the fact that the show was scheduled on the tail-end of the “silver week” holidays, but attendance was down on Saturday, the first public day: 62,138 visitors compared to 71,639 in 2008.
Source and more details: Japan Times
and some disastrous comments by key players of the industry….
Once upon a time, the Tokyo Game Show was the biggest videogames event on the planet, a throbbing hive of amazing announcements, bustling demo pods and saucy cos-players. This year’s event has warranted only a handful of cursory mentions in the Western games press. “Man, Japan is over. We’re done. Our game industry is finished,” veteran Capcom game designer Keiji Inafune is quoted as saying on the show floor. A bleak prognosis, but sadly not an unreasonably alarmist one – Hideo Kojima made similar points at the start of the year.
Source and more details: Keith Stuart, Guardian.co.uk
Even with this “Apocalyptic” facts, people enjoyed the Tokyo Game Show and They tried some of the best games that will going to hit shelves soon. Sure the gaming industry has their ups and downs and 2009 was not the best year for them, but with some interesting game titles on their way, new game consoles, price cuts for our benefit and Japan´s contribution, the game can always continue.
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Its sad but the trend is there, the Japanese market has shrunk from the second largest to the 4th largest behind europe as a whole and the UK individually. Japanese developers are even outsourcing development to Canada and the US.
The declines primarily sales driven due to the Japanese economy but also theirs been a trend towards copying western style games which has lowered sales even further because their no longer producing those unique and casual games that attracted western audiences in the first place.
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Kotaku reporting that in the first 6 months of the year the Japanese game industry declined by 10.5% and console sales by 17.5%!
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Toonleap Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Thanks for the update….
I am not surprised…Many of the games out there are just bad!…and also, the Recession!
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