is fading out and the current market dominance is almost handed over to Nintendo DS.
However, there are people still expecting PS3 to have exploding period in the near future. Hamamura, a game guru who has kept his eye on the Japanese game market from the beginning of it, anticipates that the time of PS3 will arrive soon.
2. History
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.(SCE) was establishe
game machine “PlayStation” emerged as a king of video games. For Nintendo the hardest time was 2003. Nintendo firstly in its history couldn’t make the end meet. After a few years, Nintendo regained its previous status as a dominant player in the gameindustry. There were two smash hits that brought the tremendous success to Nintendo: Nintendo DS and Wii. There are certainly some reasons tha
in the current period, it is much harder to appeal N3DS’s attraction to customers than any other time because of the new emerging threat from the social game with a smartphone and a table PC. Moreover, unfortunately, the N3DS’s biggest attribute, which makes people experience 3D effect without any glasses, is not well-made as much as even Nintendo expected: the company announced that they wou
2. NC Soft
1) History
NC Soft is an online computer game company that founded in March 1997 by T.J. Kim, a business software developer and author of the Korean word processor Hangul. In September 1998, NC Soft launched its first and most popular game, Lineage. Lineage was the first MMORPG to exceed the record of 100,000 concurrent users for the first time in Korea. The success of thisgame help
of Sega Master System sold was 13 millions.
4th Generation
The fourth generation is known as 16-bit era. The game consoles in this generation showed improved graphics and resolution. This generation started when Sega released Mega Drive in 1988. Sega gained a significant market share by releasing this model. The Mega Drive became a big success in 1991 with its software, Sonic the Hedgehog, wh