![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a long way from the glory days spanning the 1980s to the early 2000s, during which Japan dominated the global home-console market with a stream of groundbreaking, entertaining video games. Sure, Nintendo and Sony are still powerhouses, but many game developers seem to just putter along. However, Inafune’s words continue to haunt it. He may have been a bit premature, the Japanese game industry isn’t finished - yet. After asking the assembled press what they thought of that year’s TGS, he said, “Personally, when I looked at all the different games on the TGS floor, I thought ‘Man, Japan is over. Inafune, famous for his work on “Mega-Man” and the George Romero-inspired “Dead Rising” zombie games, elicits such black-and-white responses because at a press event in 2009, the then-employee of Osaka-based Capcom said the Japanese game industry was “finished.” The quote became infamous.
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