“Personally when I looked around [at] all the different games at the TGS floor, I said "Man, Japan is over. We're done. Our game industry is finished."”

— Keiji Inafune

Source: "TGS 09: Keiji Inafune dumps on Tokyo Game Show 2009". https://www.destructoid.com/tgs-09-keiji-inafune-dumps-on-tokyo-game-show-2009-149909.phtmlDestructoid. Retrieved 2017-08-11.

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