More On Japanese Game Developers In 2004

Posted by simoniker on Friday January 9, 2004 @04:56AM from the good-with-the-bad dept.

Thanks to Game Science for their second article, following yesterday's first part, discussing Japanese game developer expectations for 2004, as relayed via a survey in Famitsu magazine. Of 100 developers surveyed, 25 thought things would improve in 2004, suggesting "new hardware will spur the market on, [and] big hits like FFXII and GT4 will be released", but 32 expected no change, saying "makers and shops will struggle to get by, [and] it will be a tough year for small companies." Hints of the Japanese games slump in 2003 came from survey results in which a clear majority considered it a 'bad year', pointing out "companies like Digicube went bankrupt... [and] the market got smaller." Finally, of those Japanese developers surveyed, 52 were planning to concentrate on PlayStation 2 in 2004, compared with 24 on PC, 15 on PSP, 11 on GameCube, and just 7 on Xbox.

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Xbox Beats Playstation! by bugbread · 2004-01-09 05:21 · Score: 2, Funny

XBox beats Playstation!!

7 developers plan on developing for XBox, while only 4 plan on developing for Playstation.

Of course, we're talking about Playstation 1, not Playstation 2, but hey, I'll take what I can get ^_^