What happened to Japan?

Japan used to absolutely DOMINATE the video game Industry. What happened?

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They got older and their tastes have become more niche.

Couldnt cope with HD era

They still do. People who actually care about videogames play indie games and Japanese games.

50% of all Japanese are over 50 yo.

How about you watch a Zhang Yimou and Zhangke's films before you make this kind of thread ?

Nothing
They're still dominating the industry and that clearly makes you mad

Can't stop making shitty anime games because they have to cater to retarded weebs and their nation's growing population of social outcasts.

what?

Kek

Japan hasn't been top dog in the industry for over a decade. The top selling franchises are western. The biggest market is NA. Japanese games not from mainstream studios are selling less and less

Stagnation

If you say so

>People who actually care about videogames
Play a bit of everything from all genres, places and sorts of devs and should have a keen eye and a small community of like minded people by now to carefully select the titles they play.

You're talking about manchildren with peter pan Syndrome and likely no experience in romantic relationships with a female that just care for nostalgia trips and coomerbait.

they really aren't given opportunities to make big AAA games

Normalfags.

Pokémon is Japanese bro

Mobile games happened. Average Jap kid plays on phones or tablet. This is the reason why Jap game devs stopped innovating because they don't have a ready market that will buy an experimental game.

Nintendo is dominating everyone by a wide margin

>top dog in the industry for over a decade

Literally, GOTY being released in 2 weeks. Even Normies want to play

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>Play a bit of everything from all genres
No they don't and reports from earnings and demographics prove it
>You're talking about manchildren with peter pan Syndrome and likely no experience in romantic relationships with a female that just care for nostalgia trips and coomerbait.
So you're just seething about japan and projecting your hangups.

>The top selling franchises are western.
gta excepted nintendo franchises mog every other franchise on the market

didnt adapt or accept good ideas from foriegn sources, fell behind, insisted their ideas and ways were best and people that disagreed were wrong. some jap studious still compete but most are indie teir garbage.

this lesson is repeated all throughout history. even if youre on top always explore the ideas of your competitors, 9\10 times itll be nothing but that one idea that is may end up being critical.

honestly this

I'm talking about how Western AAA gaming is soulless corporate trash with no artistic value. Japanese creators seem to have more creative freedom than your average EA dev. And obviously indie titles are often passion projects by people who give a shit about the medium.
Of course you can only see LE SJWs VS LOSER CHUDS in everything. Go outside. Turn the internet off.

what about cod, warcraft, diablo,sc, elder scrolls, and mass effect?

>didnt adapt or accept good ideas from foriegn sources

And that's a negative...?

Japanese developers didn't think HDTVs would be adopted as quickly as they were, and were caught off guard and behind the curve.

Why wouldn't you take good ideas regardless of the source?