Niko Partners, the analytics firm covering the video game industry in Asia and MENA markets, published its latest weekly report , which points to a potential source of problems for the Japanese video game market. As geopolitical tensions between Japan and China continue to rise, China might be inclined to take retaliatory actions, like starting to deny approval of Japanese games.

According to Niko Partners, " Japan is the single largest source of import game approvals to China , accounting for roughly 30% of all licensed foreign titles over the past two years ." We know that China is a massive market that any publisher would want to be able to crack, since that would be millions of potential players.

Though the firm clarifies that there's been no indication China would stop approvi

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