Napalm Riot

The epic half-assery on display in the Tokyo Game Show slogan ("Saa, ikou! GAME no jikan desu," or "Let's go! It's GAME time") is tangential evidence of a certain half-heartedness in the Japanese games industry as of late.

With Nintendo's stock price dropping and the biggest title announced so far this year being Wii Music, with Metal Gear Solid 4 failing to sell a trillion copies -- and winding up in bargain bins all around Tokyo -- the game developers of Japan are torn between several questions. Do they keep making casual games? Do they keep pouring money into big-budget blockbuster shipwrecks? Do they do something new?

What does "something new" even mean, anyway?

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