Comments on: Japan’s arcades are in crisis, past two years see increase in bankruptcies https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japans-arcades-are-in-crisis-increase-in-bankruptcies/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Sat, 13 Apr 2024 04:53:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John C https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japans-arcades-are-in-crisis-increase-in-bankruptcies/#comment-2130 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 04:53:43 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=29646#comment-2130 I can say that that Arcades will always exist in one way or the other, the main problem i think goes down to the fact that a lot have moved away from unique experiences with franchises or even stopped innovating and trying to do something interesting, and have instead moved to easy money that is temporary much like Pachislot. I would argue that the best way to innovate around it is to try and give different experiences on different floors much like Taito has done in certain areas. For example underground is UFO Crane games, Main floor is the arcade, the upper floor is the betting and horse racing games. Also maybe advertising for Indie devs in Japan to make games for new style Arcade Cabinets would help as well. Anything like a STG, VR or something interesting that has not been tapped into as a whole.

Another for electricity costs, i keep wondering why the cities in Japan do not try to help with the costs and try to exchange arcade cabinets to be something that takes up less electricity while also maybe to help these places exchange common electricity for something a lot more efficiency as a whole, maybe solar or wind panels, maybe even a hybrid. It would definitely help the rising costs in one way or the other for both city and business.

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