Falcom is a gaming studio older than most of you, here’s its secret for survival

Ys and The Legend of Heroes developer Nihon Falcom is a living, walking treasure of the video game world. At 36 years old, it’s one of the few holdovers from the Golden Age of Gaming back in the 1980s when Japanese companies rewrote the rulebook and gave games another three decades of life.

Capcom, Square Enix, Nintendo, Bandai Namco, SEGA… with the apparent passing of Konami, it’s a list that shows how few have survived and how many have come and gone over these thirty long years of hard knock lives.

Unlike those companies though, Nihon Falcom has never enjoyed mainstream success. Ys and The Legend of Heroes both earned widespread love among their fanbases, but this success has struggled to leak into further audiences. Despite that, the company chugs on and does what it does best, making fun JRPGs with rockin’ soundtracks and employing smart business decisions as described by President Toshiro Kondo in a recent interview with USGamer.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/07/31/falcoms-secret-for-survival/