The Japanese video game market showed stable growth in recent years and reached a size of 1.86 trillion Japanese yen in 2023.
The article discusses the social-games industry in Japan, with a focus on Japanese technology companies featured at the Tokyo Game Show, including mobile videogame producers Gree Inc. and DeNA Co., and a discussion of the market for social games played on smartphones.Wall Street Journal - ...
This qualitative study explores the phenomenon of people who play Japanese video games but neither read, speak, nor understand Japanese. The research questions include: What motivates people to play a video game in a language they do not understand? What do people learn from playing games in a...
The book deals comprehensively with the history of the Japanese game industry from the beginning of the non-computer age to the present. The video game industry in Japan was established in the arcade game market when Space Invaders was released by Taito in 1978. Game markets for both PCs and...
With more than 1.9 million sold units, "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" was the best-selling video game title for consoles in Japan in 2023. The action-adventure game was released for the Nintendo Switch in May of that year. The Japanese video game market The Japanese video...
The presence or not of a box, the functioning or not of the game... Moreover, by buying from specialized stores, the seller will be a professional in the sale of Japanese retrogaming products. Descriptions can be more detailed, and the operation of the game tested before shipping. In ...
Japanese and western video game news by Gematsu. Comprehensive, no-nonsense coverage of announcements and releases.
The thing is, almost seven years ago, I wrote a "Top Five Thursday"-post about IPs that deserve a board game and my number one was Megami Tensei, the Japanese RPG-franchise upon which not only the Shin Megami Tensei games were built, but also the Persona games. And guess what I spott...
With nothing else coming close to being as popular, Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! tops the Japanese game sales chart once again this week.
Naturally, most things in said world are as absurd as you are. While it starts out the size of a thumbtack, you gradually roll your ever-expanding ball until it is large enough to consume entire cities! As weirdly Japanese as the game is, it just works. It is a really fun game. ...