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Videogame Shares Falling, Weak Sales Data To Blame

The structure and culture of a Japanese game developer is different from a western one. Throughout the history of Japanese game design, many developers have seen fit to remain mostly anonymous, even using Video game shares are trading lower on Friday following a disappointing reading on August sales from market research firm NPD. As a number of analysts noted this morning, NPD reported that August console game sales rose 13% year-over-year, while hardware sales rose just 3%.

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Ultizen's Lan Haiwen Discusses the Latest Gaming Industry Developments

The structure and culture of a Japanese game developer is different from a western one. Throughout the history of Japanese game design, many developers have seen fit to remain mostly anonymous, even using pseudonyms to a large degree in video game credits.

Also, the division in labor for video game development is different. For example, Japanese game design teams had a dedicated designer (which they called a "director") much earlier than American design teams adopted the practice.

Secondly, Japanese game designers throughout history generally had far more people working on a particular game than a comparable western design team.

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