Why does it feel like the Japanese game industry is dying? This board is more likely to talk about Chinese or even South Korean games over Japanese ones nowadays. And no, Sony & Capcom don't count, since they ditched Japan to chase Western market trends.
Did you somehow miss that TotK and FF16 have been living rent free in Ganker's head for months?
Those don't count, either. TotK apes Western design trends and FF16 doesn't even look like it was made in Japan save for the particle effects. Feel free to try and refute me on this.
>FF16 doesn't even look like it was made in Japan
You can instantly tell it wasn't made in the West but Japan because the women aren't hideous and everyone is white.
>try and refute me on this.
They're made in Japan by Japanese studios, run by Japanese people.
So you're basically saying it doesn't count unless it's stinking moeshit/weaboocore anime garbage. In that case the "Japanese game industry" is indeed dying and I'm glad about it.
>rent free
I remember this autism of old
>of old
"Rent-free" is a fairly recent meme, anon.
>And no, Sony & Capcom don't count, since they ditched Japan to chase Western market trends.
>UH AKSHUALLY THESE JAPANESE COMPANIES DON'T COUNT CUZ I SAID SO
you're a fricking homosexual and not worth engaging seriously
Anon... Japan is dying.
I don't think they're dying per se. The population crisis is like the Baby Boomer problem we have in the States, just amplified by ten since hikikimori are more common and life expectancy is overall longer.
Their population is dropping faster than a prostitutes drawers with no signs of any recovery. Jpon should look into life insurance and nd a comfy burial plot.
Most western countries have a lower native birth rate than Japan.
>just amplified by ten since hikikimori are more common and life expectancy is overall longer.
Actually it's more that they don't have millions of thirdies to prop up the birth rate
The statistics for Western countries would be just as bad if it weren't for mass immigration
They don't have a population crisis; their population is nearly that of Russia's. Simply having more people shouldn't be the measure of how healthy a society is, that having a huge population is seen as a plus just shows how corporatized the country has become, and how individuals are now seen as commodities (economic units) to fuel "GDP" and consumption.
No one’s saying that the population declining in raw numbers is bad, what’s bad is that there’s not enough births to maintain stability, which means that the nation will grow old, which will lead into a death spiral, since the nation will become even more of a gerontocracy and suffocate the youth.
Boomers are a HUGE problem in the west, China and Japan. Basically old men with no life making shit up to have men and women at their peak in school jail memorizing filler, then have the men work 18 hours. Their YOU MUST SUFFER TO DESERVE THINGS killed birthrates
Notice all those isekais, old isekai was about coming back to your world, new isekai is dying but going to a new world with your previous memories and have a cool andwholesome new father who teaches you useful stuff, representing young men hating their original father
> Why does it feel like the Japanese game industry is dying? This board is more likely to talk about Chinese or even South Korean games over Japanese ones nowadays.
You got a source for that, schizo?
Gacha happened to those who otherwise would have played handheld games on the train to work.
>Capcom doesn't count
Why? Because you're argument is completely invalidated and you just want everyone to ignore them so you can be right?
Capcom has been explicit for close to a decade now that they outsource all their game development to other countries, and all of their new games have very Western art direction and marketing campaigns. Sales prove this.
The smoking gun? The ONLY Japan exclusive series that Capcom still has is Sengoku Basara, and it's basically dead.
>chinese and south korean games
all I know is genshin and that should be moved to the mobile game board. i couldn't even name a south korean game
Off the top of my head
>Gungrave
>Stellar Blade
>PUBG
>NIKKE aka the anime girl ass game
>MapleStory
>Blade and Soul
>Black Desert Online
>Kingdom Under Fire
>Lost Ark
>Lies of P aka Pinocchio if he FromSoft
Not to mention ProjectMoon, which is basically Ganker culture at this point for some reason. Also add CrossfireX which Xbox tried to push really hard last year.
All shit
I have only heard of pubg and maple story. none or those games are actively discussed on Ganker
NIKKE is discussed fairly often considering it’s an anime gacha, you may just not have known what it was when you saw it. Gungrave and Blade and Soul are thought of fondly on Ganker as well
>And no, Sony & Capcom don't count, since they ditched Japan to chase Western market trends
>ditched japan
huh
Japan has always been part of the globohomo, who do you think rebuild their country after the war
Anon, the Jap industry was at it's low point during the late 2000s and early 2010s. Right now, it's incredibly strong. Elden Ring and Totk were enormous.
I'm assuming you mean some kind of ambigious purist shit like apparently they don't 'count'? But that doesn't mean the industry is dying. What you should be saying is Japan's game industry is losing it's identity I guess.
Everyone knows Chinese are the real master race in East Asia
This board is fricking shit and only talks about shit games. It has more third worlders than real people. Why the frick would you use this board as a gauge of quality? Are you stupid?
t. second worlder
It isn't dying, it's just that games need more time, investment, and people to make now, so we're seeing less new entries from the bigger Japanese publishers.
Ganker doesnt have flags so you wont realize this, but if you look at Ganker or Ganker youll start to understand 90% of Ganker is europeans.
that and now a lot of redditors and zoomers have invaded.
those 3 groups all adore western slop and hate anything that isnt a brown/grey zombie shooter, movie game, capeshit, or medieval europe bullshit
Blade & soul was fricking garbage
>why is x dying
Repeated on every board as nasuem
What the frick are you talking about? Right now is the best time for Japanese games.
Name 6
Off the top of my head: resident evil 4, dragons dogma 2, armored core vi, katamari damacy, etrian odyssey.
>Chinese or even South Korean games
Gachas are not games.