The Intellectual Property Strategy Behind Japan’s High End Games
The contemporary Japanese game industry no longer treats individual titles as isolated creative works. It treats them as structural components within a larger media mix economy, where the value of a game is determined not only by its mechanics but by its ability to reinforce an existing intellectual property ecosystem. #IndieGames #GameReviews #Gaming #IndieDev #GameJournalism

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