Japan's Game Industry Hoping For Better 2011

According to data released today by Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, the Japanese handheld and home-console game market grossed 493 billion yen (about $5.9 billion) in sales last year, a nine-percent dropoff over 2009 and the third year in a row that the size of Japan's game business has shrunk. Two Japanese game producers, Masahiro Sakurai ( Kirby , Kid Icarus ) and Toshihiro Nagoshi (the Yakuza ...