Japan's Game Industry on Impressive Rise as Western AAA Development Struggles

As layoffs and studio closures continue to deathroll the western AAA industry, analyst points out 5 of 8 major Japanese companies hit all-time share prices this year

Grim in the West, great in the East.

Japan's Game Industry on Impressive Rise as Western AAA Development Struggles

Sony and others hitting record highs - Five of Japan's biggest video game companies have just posted record-breaking share prices, strongly suggesting that t...

Japan’s AAA game industry performs strongly as 5 out of 8 major companies hit record-breaking share prices  - AUTOMATON WEST

Five out of eight of Japan's major publicly traded AAA game companies have seen share prices reach all-time highs in the past two months.

5 Of 8 Japanese AAA Game Stocks Just Hit All-Time Highs – Kantan Games Inc. CEO Blog – From Tokyo, Japan

I just came back from the Game Developer Conference in 2025, where many conversations revolved around the gloom and doom in AAA gaming in particular. While things do not look great for many studios in the West, things are very different in Japan – and I was shocked how little people in the industry still know and understand about the third biggest gaming market in the world (which is a probably a positive for a Japan game industry consultant lik…