
Foreign games in the US are not just about localization anymore. At a recent preview event at the Blackbird Bar in San Francisco, two Japanese companies - gumi and Colopl previewed some of their titles geared towards the western market. We sat down with gumi COO, Takeshi Sankawa, and talked about the world's #1 mobile game market - Japan, where mobile is bigger than console. Sankawa also gives a view of what the role of big Japanese game studios is for game developers(Japan & US) to enter new markets on both sides of the ocean. Give it a view.
0:30 - What is the state of Japanese Mobile Gaming
1:22 - What is the indie dev eloper landscape in Japan?
2:23 - What is the future of mobile gaming?
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