Gaming, Manga, Anime and movie – contents industry is getting more and more important under Digital Society. Japan is one of the leading country on contents industry. Animation movies produced by Studio Jiburi inspired a lot of fun in the world. Nowadays manga comics are localized and being sold all over the world and characters in Manga such as Doraemon, Kureyon Shin Chan, One-piece and Kimetsu no Yaiba are being loved by variety of generations in the world.
On the other hand, digital society is making it difficult to create hit contents. What does “hit contents” is meaning for? It means that the cost to produce the contents is lower than the revenue generated by the contents. As known well, the cost to produce digital contents, such as gaming and movies are much higher than publishing. So, there are few contents creation company who can continue to release its original contents to the world.
Yet we don’t need to worry even if we cannot meet great titles produced by famous gaming companies. The world is changing. Even though it is hard for contents creation company to keep producing great contents, there are still a lot of creators who keep bringing into being. Indie is the way for those who want to produce their unique contents by themselves. Gaming Console is also adapting itself to such movement, for example, Playstation 5 is designed more indie friendly than previous versions.
We can meet great contents in indie platform. And I think this shows just beginning of a new era for contents industry.