Japan, on the other hand, has a strong background in arcade games and console games. This is why Japanese games are traditionally polished. You can't have popout and patches for offline cabinet games.

Until the mid 1990s, Japanese game developers were leading the way. With console makers Nintendo and Sega and later Sony acting as gatekeepers, they were often more successful than their western ...

As someone who has as-of-yet not visited Japan, I still imagine it is a place where cutting-edge game development technology is lurking around every corner - stuff so far beyond what we have in ...

The PlayStation 3 Left Japanese Devs "Struggling". In a Gamescom Asia interview with IGN Japan, former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden shared that the PlayStation 1 and 2 were ideal for Japanese ...

Part of the problem, he added, is that Japanese studios seem reluctant to employ Western tech into their projects. "As for the organizational structure of companies," he continued.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer recently claimed that more AAA games from Japanese developers are on the way to Xbox. However, he did not elaborate when such games could release or what they are.

Games have become more risky. Japanese companies don't take those kinds of risks like Western developers do,” Mikami told Game Industry International.