GamesRadar: "As much as I hate to admit it, I was dead wrong about this year's Tokyo Game Show. Days before the show opened, I wrote that this year’s Japanese trade show was going to be the most important in years, finally bringing back the 'big time feel' TGS had been missing for some time. TGS 2013 would supposedly be the show where Japan caught up with the west via a bunch of ground-breaking next-gen games. Yet, despite my hopeful predictions, Tokyo Game Show continued its march inward. Instead of this upcoming console generation being a time for renewal in Japanese development, it seems more likely that this will be the generation where the companies finally give up on the west for good."
"The Spain-based indie games publisher Firenut Games and Granada-based (Spain) indie games developer Trigger the Monster, today announced with great joy and thrill that their dark fantasy adventure/management game “Search of Light” (AKA SOL), is now available for PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Game Rant participates in the Megaton Musashi World Cup, checking out the game a little bit beforehand and winning the first round match.
Feral Cat Den return with Nirvana Noir, a sequel to Genesis Noir centering around two different universes, and it truly feels like a bigger bang.
Japan switched over to on the go gaming along time ago
Look how many Japanese developers/companies struggled transitioning into this gen.
I mean how many Japanese franchises how been ruined this gen or decreased in quality which made the franchise so special
Resident Evil
Final Fantasy
Mega Man (non existent at the moment)
DMC
Kingdom Hearts got too many spin offs
Dragon Quest X became an MMO
FF14 Online was crap they had to redo it.
I could go on, these are just big franchises I'm talking about, we hardly see any new franchises from smaller/new studios and that because they are too busy trying to copy the west thinking that's there solution when in fact it's their problem.
It has to take something really REALLY special for Japanese gamers to take console games seriously again. So far the Wii U has failed to do so, whether the PS4 can be that catalyst remains to be seen.
However a console can't alone turn the Japanese gaming scene there will have to be some very memorable games to come out to capture there attention again.
Then why did the PS4 preorder sell out almost instantly when it went live in Japan?
Could also be the very reason why there GETTING THEM LAST!