At a hands-on event for Dead Rising 2, producer Keiji Inafune (father of Mega Man) had some not-so-nice-words about this year's Tokyo Game Show.

After asking the crowd of attendees what they thought of TGS this year (and urging them to be honest in their responses), Inafune expressed disappointment in this year's show and its games line-up.

"Personally when I looked around at all the different games at the TGS floor," Capcom's Ben Judd translated Inafune, "I said 'Man, Japan is over. We're done. Our game industry is finished.'"

However, he then uses Capcom's upcoming titles as an example of "kick ass" games coming from Japan. An interesting remark, as Dead Rising 2 is being handled by Canadian studio Blue Castle Games.

While Inafune's remarks may seem harsh, he's not alone in his feelings -- many we've spoken to have told us they were underwhelmed by this year's shows. It's certainly smaller in size, and many Japanese developers (some due mainly to financial reasons) have chosen not to attend this year's show.

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Will Japan go down or will they continue fighting??? Discuss.

they will fight with bible black game!!

but i tot jrpg still hs many followings n also nice production house.

they will fight back with a HENTAI game??!!!! hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

but seriously, most of the games for this current gen, now comes from the west. i think the capcom dude is right, japan's gaming industy is dying unlike during the ps2 era when most of the games came from japan.

This post has been edited by nwk: Sep 27 2009, 05:35 PM

bible black?
hentai game ?

*google*


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me like coz japanese games always delay...lol...

also another thing is that the current gen gamers(more or less) are focus on the online multiplayer aspect of a game now, the old era of single player and/or split screen are dying(my op).
most ppl i know doesnt play rpg anymore...

Because JRPG keep delaying

Because most japanese games are stuck during the the year 1998..its like they never move on since that.

Because japanese games always released in japanese language first. I dont understand wooooo... (waiting for white knight chronicles and yakuza 3 for a very long timeeeeeeeeeee in english)

X paham aku... nape game japan leh meltdown... US pun sama gak.. asyik2 FPS or RTS... ... hmmm all sama la... and game tuh laku depend on minat individu... ( aku x suka dead rising... .. asyik2 zombie... apa daa)...

maksud aku, japan gaming industry dah semakin merudum. Western developers lebih hebat skrg. Dulu western developers respect gile kat japanese dev ni, skrg dah terbalik.

u can see from Square Enix pattern that they're moving on to do HD bible black

Bible Black Fantasy

they can't wait for Final Fantasy XXX

Urgh. Why can't they make the Japanese language games into English and release it to the world? . I'm sure gamers around the world would love that . But have you notice that some Eastern developers drop from the main company and join the western gaming company?

This post has been edited by Trishharas: Sep 28 2009, 11:53 AM

sorry Inafune, MGS Peace Walker is AWESOME.

takkan tu je?

u hv just been tainted

Tapi tak se-awesome god of war 3, Uncharted 2, Modern warfare 2..

the way i see it...Japanese developers can't really keep up with the technology.

Back in the 16 bit and 32 bit era where games are much more simple to make, they manage to survive and did very well. But since then, the just couldn't keep up anymore.

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Added on September 28, 2009, 7:51 pm10 years ago, jap co like Sega, Namco, Konami is like THE developer, but i won't even bother to look at their games now.

This post has been edited by lightning69: Sep 28 2009, 07:51 PM

Kojima is awesome

However, he doesn't make many games.

But he is just one person

That's the prob. not enuff dev from japan are making a lot of quality and polised games. I must admit, japanese games are the most polished compare to their western counterparts. Their giving high value production games but its seems to be backfired with delays.

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Added on September 28, 2009, 9:37 pmNintendo was THE console. But as i stated, its like they are stuck in 1998.

This post has been edited by aiyish: Sep 28 2009, 09:37 PM

dun say like that...nanti nintendo fangirl marah

itulah pasal..

nowadays, they shouldn't polish so hard until perfection, get the game out, then later patch it la with update. It's not like we live in an offline world anymore where we have to tiup2 n jilat2 when there's bug in the game

or trus stuck in one part of the game..(damn you SNES Killer Instict, bazir duit raya aku beli)

I would stop gaming if Japanese gaming products are deteriorating at such pace. However there's no need for me to stop for the time being

They might not monopolized like they used to be, but they are certainly not dead.

The worst crisis in Japan's game industry is
the lack of human resources in advance programming.
Except Square Enix who r capable of building their own engine (White engine?).
most of the developers in Japan rely on Havok and other engine.
Why?
coz those who interested in this field is mostly interested in Character designing, Scripting and only a few newbies who r interested in networking or engine development.

with so many limitation, japanese game's quality is getting worse day by day, before we start mentioning about the budget.
Less experts in programming field, more time consumption on making a game.
middle house developers simply cannot afford it.

And suddenly Capcom announces Super Street Fighter IV...

itu memang kerja capcom..milk the cow sampai habis

Besalah tue..Mo compete kan..